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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
By Joseph Romm The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress . ----- Iceland has long been touted as a hydrogen economy pioneer . So it is quite shocking that electric vehicles -- both plug-in hybrids and pure battery electric cars -- crowded out hydrogen at a recent Reykjavík conference. Iceland is blessed with abudant hydro-electric opportunities , and currently...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
By Joseph Romm The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress . ----- Thomas Boone Pickens is a billionaire who made his money in oil and corporate takeovers. He began investing in natural gas in 1997, and in wind power in 2007. In 2008, he went public with the Pickens Plan via a website and a well funded advertising campaign. Here we analyze the Pickens Plan,...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
[Climate Progress has covered the Pickens Plan many times since Memo to T. Boone Pickens: Your energy plan is half-brilliant, half-dumb. Here Earl Killian makes a strong analytical case that the “half-dumb” part of the plan is in fact a wasteful, wildly impractical — if not outright absurd — distraction.] Thomas Boone Pickens is [...]
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
By Joseph Romm The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress . ----- We all bemoan the low level of scientific discourse in politics. So one might have high hopes for a course, textbook, and book for the general public all titled Physics For Future Presidents as resources that might help educate today's students and hence tomorrow's leaders to be able to deal...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
By Joseph Romm The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress . ----- Part 1 of this book review looked at the (mis)handling of climate science in two books by Professor Richard A. Muller -- his textbook and general public book, which, confusingly, are both named Physics for Future Presidents . Here I turn to portions of the general public book, such as the...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
By Joseph Romm The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress . ----- The California Energy Commission is considering a proposal by PG&E to require televisions sold in the state to meet a minimum efficiency standard. Why is a utility proposing its customers by more efficient appliances? Because California allows utilities to earn a return on investment from...
