Changing Light bulbs at the White House

Last Friday the House passed the Waxman Markey bill on energy and climate change, establishing, among other things a cap and trade system fo...

Power from Space

Just recently the California utility company PG&E announced a program to beam energy from space, where it would be collected and beamed ...

If you claim to be scientific, then be so

When I was taught basic science and engineering it was understood that if you proposed a hypothesis, or theory, and ran an experiment where ...

Geothermal Energy and Earthquakes

Geothermal Energy is one of those sources that is, within normal scales, sustainable, and it is currently being drawn upon, so that relative...

The Natural Gas Report for the week

Yesterday I was not all that cheerful about the omens foretelling the future of gasoline and crude in the near term. So today it is time to...

Driving is picking up, but is that good?

Having effectively been away for a couple of weeks, as good a place to start as any, to catch back up with the current state of things, is ...

Thoughts on the trip to China

The trip to China is now over, and I am left looking back to see what impressions remain the most profound. I will forgo the cultural and g...