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Nuclear energy folks are starting to sound a little shrill

July 21, 2009

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
energy, nuclear, renewableenergy, renewables

On Wednesday, the American Enterprise Institute will be holding a little pep rally for nuclear power. In the event description, they make the following standard disparaging remark about renewables, suggesting that nuclear is the option that can scale: Yet renewable...continued

Truth and laughter re: mercury and compact fluorescent light bulbs

May 11, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
efficiency, energy

Back on April 30, the Washington Post ran an article titled "Fluorescent Bulbs Are Know to Zap Domestic Tranquillity - Energy-Savers a Turnoff for Wives." The articles was emailed around here within NRDC's Air&Energy program and provoked a hail storm of...continued

NY Moves to Fix Utility Regulation for Energy Efficiency

April 24, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
efficiency, energy, newyork, UtilityRegulation

Energy efficiency is the fastest, cheapest, cleanest way to stop global warming, but historically electric and natural gas utilities have been regulated in a way that means that they loose money when their customers become more efficient. The solution is...continued

Danish Report on Offshore Wind

December 4, 2006

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
electricgeneration, energy, offshorewind, renewableenergy, windfarms, windpower

Here‚ the link to a report just put out by the Danish Energy Authority that summarizes five years of environmental monitoring at Nysted and Horns Rev offshore wind projects. These are the largest and oldest offshore wind projects in the...continued

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Director of Renewable Energy Policy
New York City
I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...
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