Energy
The letter that Walter Schmidt, of North Scituate, sent in to the Providence Journal deserves a hear hear: A July 2 letter (“Bill’s passage a fine day for the environment”) thanked U.S. Reps. Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin for voting for the “cap and trade” bill. The author, however failed to mention the cost of…
Any song with the line “and estimated environmental impact is not really calculable” would be worth a listen, but I’ve been humming this one all day: (via the Corner)
So, with legislation to make energy more expensive for all Americans making its way through Congress, what can one say about this? Governor Carcieri on Friday signed into law legislation that could pave the way for offshore wind farms in Rhode Island. The bill, passed by both chambers of the General Assembly earlier this month,…
Well, it isn’t law yet, I suppose, but when legislative supporters of a government change as well as the Associated Press admit substantial cost to an initiative, it certainly gives pause: In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution…
Throw in environmentalism, too, because William Tucker’s thoughts on windmilled energy bring some possibilities to mind: The major limitation, of course, is wind’s intermittency — its lack of “dispatchability.” Quite simply, you can never count on it. You can’t even predict it from hour to hour with 100 percent accuracy and the windiest sites can…
This seems to be a great idea — especially since it appears to be free-market, rather than government, driven — An $80-million project to generate electricity from the methane gases that are given off by Rhode Island’s trash drew support from local and state officials yesterday morning. Executives from a New Jersey company, Ridgewood Renewable…
In view of the consideration that President-Elect Obama is giving to the reinstatement via Presidential Executive Order of the recently lifted ban on certain domestic oil drilling, let us go back a month or so to an editorial by Tom Ward of the Valley Breeze [no longer available on line] which raised an interesting point.…
This past weekend, the President of OPEC set a maximum on how high his organization would like to see the price of oil reach…Reasonable prices should range “between $70 and $90 per barrel,” said [Chakib Khelil], who currently holds the rotating presidency of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.Why is there a maximum, you might…
Providence City Council member Terry Hassett wants the Public Utilities Commission to revisit this summer’s rate increase (h/t): “If the rationale was to boost the rate for electricity here in Rhode Island because it is directly related to the cost of oil, then the PUC is obligated to summon National Grid before them to reconsider…
For those skeptical about the idea that producing oil and other fuels from algae is viable in the near term, here are a few interesting links on recent developments I came across in putting the Phoenix article together. I was surprised by how far along this field seems to be. Diesel fuel created from algae…
