Tag Archives: wind power

Rome Burns While Politicians Fiddle

December 13, 2011 – 7:00 am

by Mike Mulvihill
Back in November, my Buzz Bin post warned that as campaigning for the next presidential election heats up, green energy would become a football tossed back and forth for political gain with little concern for whether these actions foster or retard the creation of needed alternative energy generation and a foundation for achieving [...]

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The $29 Million Battery

July 26, 2011 – 11:06 am

By Mike Mulvihill
This is not a NASA toilet seat story. (There’s no fun in whipping up on NASA any more.) This is about West Virginia, coal central for the Eastern U.S., which has cleared the way for AES (the nation’s second largest energy company) to construct a 32 MW electric storage device to provide [...]

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Energy’s Big PR Problem? Politics (Duh!)

May 17, 2011 – 12:23 am

by Michael Whitlow
John Janoush, vice president of Jantran,a Mid-South towboat operator, told National Public Radio recently that six of his towboats are stuck on the Arkansas River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. Later in the story, when talking about the flood danger to Rosedale, Mississippi, he commented about the strength of the levees: “Our [...]

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Less Wasted Energy Would Beget a Better Energy Plan

May 25, 2010 – 1:02 am

By Mike Mulvihill

The art of debate has given way to the bully pulpit of the zealous. Red states versus blue states, FOX conservative demagogues versus liberal MSNBC whack jobs and environmentalists versus business. Regardless of the correctness of their premise, zealots have created most of the world’s most serious ills – outside of pandemics – [...]

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Hold The Line. Energy Changes Are a Long Time Coming

November 10, 2009 – 1:40 am

 By Mike Mulvihill
 
 
 Wind Power. Renewable Energy. Green Economy. There is an awesome amount of momentum in the America right now around all of these topics. We’re on the cusp of real change in how we create the gobs of energy we increasingly consume in a manner that is kinder and gentler to Mother Earth.
One problem – [...]

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