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Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025 | Climate Solutions and Clean Edge
Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025 concludes that five emerging clean-tech industry sectors offer the Pacific Northwest one of the best opportunities for sustained economic vitality and job growth.
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David MacKay: Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air
The aim of this book is to guide the reader around the claptrap to actions that really make a difference and to policies that add up.
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Smart Metering and Decoupling Update | Green Tech Media
"Smart" meters now account for 4.7 percent of U.S. installations, and ten states have adopted decoupling policies.
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Energy Uncertainty and Community Resilience
Urban planners and policymakers will need to turn to more systems-informed approaches to community governance and development.
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Upgrading the US Electric Grid | The Oil Drum
Clearly the big advantage of an upgraded grid would be that it would provide a possibility of continuing business as usual, in spite of declining resources.
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Joe Romm: Biomass Co-Firing
Five U.S. national laboratories concluded that biomass cofiring was the single biggest potential contributor to near-term greenhouse gas reductions of any renewable energy strategy.
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Western Renewable Energy Zones | W. Governors' Assoc. and U.S. Dept. Energy
The WREZ project is delineating the region's renewable energy resources.
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Smart Thinking | Nature
In Denmark and Germany, the transition to energy systems based on renewable sources and small-scale generation is already far advanced.
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The Energy Should Always Work Twice | Nature
"We don’t talk about guaranteeing power from wind or other sources all the time – we just believe that the market will cope."
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Wood Energy (Biomass) in America | Science
The European experience with advanced wood combustion (AWC) can guide successful implementation of community-based AWC in many regions of the United States.
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Straight Talk on the Smart Grid | earth2tech
While it’s significant that utilities are starting to build out smart grid infrastructure, utilities are largely opting for networks that provide connections that are far from real time, and this could stifle the desired innovation.
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Official Words on Peaking Oil
IEA chief economist Fatih Birol predicted a 2020 peak in global commercial oil supplies.
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Sustainable Energy Financing Districts | Miller–McCune
A "turnkey" model for cities to access on-demand financing for energy projects bundles scores of bonds for individual solar-installation projects into a package big enough that it won't be laughed out of the market.
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Tim Wirth to Natural Gas Execs | Climate Progress & Denver Biz Journal
Natural gas is the critical low-carbon “firming” resource that can enable deep penetration of both windpower and concentrated solar thermal power.
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Smart Grid System Report | DOE
The two primary issues hanging over the smart grid space continue to be energy storage and a lack of standards for interoperability.
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Energy Efficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
The biggest challenge is not inventing new technology but persuading more people to adopt technology and practices that already exist.
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World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009
The flagship EPR project at Olkiluoto in Finland, managed by the largest nuclear builder in the world, AREVA NP, has turned into a financial fiasco. The project is more than three years behind schedule, reaching a total cost estimate of close to €3,100 ($4,400) per kilowatt.
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Amory Lovins: Renewable Baseload Power
A Stanford study found that properly interconnecting at least ten windfarms can enable an average of one-third of their output to provide firm baseload power.
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Charles Hall: Energy, Biophysical Economics and EROI
The most important point about energy and its relationship to other resources in both biological and economic systems is not that “everything can be reduced to energy” (which is false) but rather that every material (and most nonmaterial) resource has an associated energy cost, so that every potentially limiting resource is limiting in part because its energy cost is too high.
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Global Salmon Life Cycle Assessment
Fish should swim, not fly. Air-freighting salmon, and any food, results in substantial increases in environmental impacts.
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