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POPSGoogle solar panel project Awesome to see how much energy google is producing using solar panels. you can even see the energy output just like you would a stock price in google finance. There's been quite a few developments in the past year which should help up the output on future installations like this if they come to market. It'd be great to see google get their net energy use down near 0.
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POPSCatastrophe reinsurance buffeted by hurricanes, global warmingt Warren Buffett's AGM - A "Woodstock for capitalists", according to NPR News. In a neat closed economy, his Berkshire Hathaway investors have the opportunity to buy the products of the thousands of companies Berkshire Hathaway invest in. The guy knows how to make money, so his words on future reinsurance rates are worth hearing. As are those of his vice chairman Charlie Munger, on low energy yield ethanol from corn.
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POPSUpbeat IPCC report point to an energy revolution. In its third and final key findings, the IPCC panel reports: ■ A cost of $US20-50 a tonne of atmospheric carbon would have a big impact on cutting harmful emissions. "It could lead to a power generation sector with low greenhouse gas emission by 2050." ■ This would allow renewable energy to have a 30 to 35 per cent share of total electricity supply by 2030. ■ Nuclear power would provide only an additional 2 per cent of the world's electricity supply by 2030 because it is too expensive, and "safety, weapons proliferation and waste remain as constraints". ■ Clean coal technology has the potential to make an important contribution by 2030. ■ Improving efficiency of energy supply and use would play a key role in reducing emissions by up to 30 billion tonnes a year by 2030.
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POPSWill Aussies voters wear the green and gold? I predicted early on that global warming is going to be a major factor in the Australian federal elections planned for the end of this year. Last week Prime Minister John Howard belatedly recognised this in attempting to divert the focus away from AGW and onto economic management, when he claimed that, "climate change is not the overriding moral challenge for Australians". Then he contradicted himself by clearing the way for a nuclear powered future, using global warming mitigation as his Trojan horse. This weekend Labor pressed on with its perceived electoral advantage, announcing a policy to subsidise home generated solar energy for households earning under $250,00 per year by way of interest free loans. One big benefit of this approach, to my mind, is that it would stimulate a local solar and renewable energy industry.
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POPSWall Street Journal reading Global Warming Watch First it was Reuters picking up a post of mine, now the WSJ Online reckon they are reading me. I would love to put this down to my sexy blogging prowess, but it is more likely that global warming is a hot topic now. Worst of all, it is not going to go away soon. WSJ reading DeSmogBlog is heartening news though - they are the Canadian PR folk who expose 'tricks of the trade' of the fossil-fuel funded global warming denial industry. They do such a great and useful job, I am always happy to plug them.
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