Drill, Baby, Drill !

Coal companies and Oil companies are defining the future energy plans of this country.
We are at a key moment in our economic, political and environmental futures.  There is an increasing awareness of the need for energy independence and environmentally friendly energy.  We have an opportunity to solve these legitimate issues in a far reaching, planet [...]

Campaign 2008 – Energy Policy Scorecard

I will spend some time reviewing the Obama and McCain campaign materials for Energy Policy. As this blog highlights, my interests are reducing/eliminating our dependency on foreign oil, incentivize private industry to develop alternative energy sources, reduce our overall energy consumption, and reduce our carbon and methane emissions from the production of energy.
I would [...]

Conservation Corps

Obama is ready to spend all the money from the war on new programs, whether it is 30 billion to bail out mortgage holders, health care, federal education dollars and Hillary will freeze rates and stop foreclosures for 90 days and then spend it on healthcare.  I appreciate that this is a campaign and people [...]

Incent to Invent

From the few mentions I have heard from the present political candidates, there actually might be some limited traction around incentives to promote innovation around alternative energy.  The model mentioned frequently is the X-Prize for space travel.  From most measure this seemed to work, good progress on the technology, and a proposed business model (TBD), [...]