God’s Own Garden in Peril: Hydel Projects threaten Lepcha community in Sikkim

The beautiful Teesta River of Sikkim

Editor’s Note: Few issues of scaleable energy are harder to parse and assess than hydropower. It is renewable, it is 24 hour, it can be throttled back, the capacity is massive. At capacity China’s Three Gorges [...]

In previous posts, “Fisker’s Photovoltaic Cars,” and “Photovoltaic Powered Cars,” we have reported on the potential for commuters to power their vehicles with energy collected from rooftop photovoltaics. But until now we haven’t been able to share some of our spreadsheet analysis with our readers. While it’s still not possible to include these [...]

Earlier this month we posted a feature article entitled “35 Inconvenient Truths” by Christopher Monckton. The story attracted a number of emails, but none that actually challenged the content. The reason we continue to post this side of the debate is because in our research, talking with climate scientists and doing our own [...]

A man is lost at sea. This scenario rarely ends in a casualty due to starvation or shark attack, but the lack of drinking water. It is a sad irony to die of thirst when so much water surrounds you.
With today’s desalination technology, however, the next bottle of water you guzzle down may very well [...]

Earlier this month, in our post “Biofuel’s Potential,” we compared the best case biofuel yields today – about 10,000 barrels per square mile per year – to the best case biofuel yields in the future according to many biofuel experts – about 50,000 barrels per square mile per year. To summarize, the difference between [...]