Its time for another of those blog posts that is a bit “out there”.  In this case I would like to propose a new use for an ancient technology.

I recently returned from a vacation in France and while there I saw a few things that came together in my mind as a possible source of base-load [...]

The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, “Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.” And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), it is worth reviewing the agency’s record.

Back in the year 2000, the IEA divined [...]

An Op-Ed in the Nikkei Newspaper

I recently had the pleasure of being asked to provide my views on Japan and its new Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for publication in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the leading business newspaper in Japan (published by Nikkei, Inc. – home of the famous “Nikkei average”).  The article was translated [...]

Here is an interesting press release that came across my desk this morning. The student race team at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is raising money for their hydrogen car by “crowd funding”.

Press Release

Delft – 15-05-2013. The Forze student race team of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is developing a [...]

Harris Roen, Editor
Roen Financial Report
May 14, 2013

SolarCity (SCTY) has been one of the hottest alternative energy stocks since its Initial Public Offering five short months ago. Yesterday it shot up 24% in one day, on the largest one-day volume since it opened, in anticipation of its quarterly earnings release. It is up 95% [...]

As this infographic courtesy of AutoPawn indicates, maybe you can’t have everything—at least not yet. Created by AutoPawn Filed under: alternative energy, cleantech, climate change, economy, environment, transportation Tagged: Autopawn, clean technology, climate change, emissions, environment, hybrid vehicles, sustainability, transportation
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Maybe it’s the gloomy Seattle weather that has made investment manager Jim Hansen and his son and partner, Kevin, at Ravenna Capital Management immune to oil and gas industry hype about the supposed U.S. shale gas “revolution.” More likely it is thorough research focused on making their clients money and keeping that money out of [...]

Comparative Estimate of Deaths

In recent weeks, I’ve seen several reports on energy issues that encourage me that people really are looking deeply at the issues.  I recently reported on one set of articles on some of the potential shortcomings of renewable technologies.  In this post, I’ll talk about a report that nuclear power has [...]

Tongji Automotive Design & Research Institute, a part of Tongji University in Shanghai, China has developed a fuel cell concept car they have named the Volare (pictured above).

The vehicle was premiered last week at the Auto China 2013 Motor Show. Developed by both Chinese and German scientists at the University, there are not a lot [...]

Even at this late and perilous date in the history of climate change, we have to keep proving it. Over and over. So here we go again, courtesy of TckTckTck and EcoWatch. A new study published in Nature Geoscience has found that global temperatures were warmer between 1970 and 2000 than any other 30-year period in the [...]