First the good news: I’ve discovered my new favorite blog (besides this one, of course), at Grist.org: http://gristmill.grist.org.
The bad new (hard to call it good news) is that published there I found the best commentary yet written on climate change, Beyond the point of no return, written by Ross Gelbspan. Ross is a journalist whose […]

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A new Stanford University study concludes that wind farms off the coast of California would ultimately produce between 25 and 100% of California’s energy needs.
http://www.physorg.com/news116519900.html
However, little power transmission capacity currently exists in the parts of Northern California where the winds are most suitable (where the population is less dense), and a number of hurdles […]

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Wave farms are being prototyped off the Oregon coast. The motion of the waves can be converted via turbines into electricity and piped back on shore.

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Capital markets financed the industrial revolution and the technological revolution (not to mention a few wars — read the House Of Morgan if you want to find out who wound up financing BOTH sides of the arms build up in WWI and WWII, I kid you not).
Now capital markets are funding the green revolution in […]

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