Environmentalists have touted hydrogen as the panacea for world energy challenges for decades, and as is common with populist environmentalist causes, their focus on hydrogen has caused more harm than good. This isn’t the first time thoughtful critics inside and outside the environmentalist movement have called the hydrogen future a hoax, but unfortunately the hydrogen [...]

Around 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 11th, 2005, in open water just east of the California’s Farallon Islands, a crab fisherman spotted a large female humpback whale entangled in crab lines. The 45 foot, 50 ton whale was exhausted from attempts to free herself, and barely had strength enough to keep her blowhole above water. [...]

There is an excellent website on the business of photovoltaics, SolarBuzz (http://www.solarbuzz.com/) which provides information on corporations, products, and people associated with the photovoltaic industry. On their home page they have a perpetually updated report on the price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of photovoltaic electricity. Currently they show the price for photovoltaic electricity to be 21.7 [...]

If you live in the midwestern United States, it’s getting pretty easy to find gasoline-ethanol blends. “E85″ is a gasoline-ethanol blend that is 85% ethanol, with the ethanol typically refined from corn. This fuel can run in most automobiles with only minor alterations. Some new vehicles are designed now to run interchangeably on either an [...]

The attempts to save the California Condor have been derided by critics who claim the money could have been better spent. They call the California Condor a “welfare species,” unable to survive without ongoing - and very expensive - assistance from humans.
Well what has actually happened is one of the greatest success stories in the [...]

Guest Blog by Robert Ovetz of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project:
It’s common knowledge that we are running out of cheap oil. What’s not so well known is that we are also running out of big fish.
The harsh reality is that catches of big fish - marlin, sharks, swordfish and tuna - are all declining rapidly. The [...]

Increasing prices for gasoline are having the welcome side effect of increasing the supply of alternative fuels. Unfortunately, alternative vehicle fuels are kind of like alternative energy in general - rapid percentage growth sounds impressive until you remember what a small base exists. While there are 685 filling stations in the U.S. offering “E85″ bioethanol, [...]