Energy and Climate Change

"If your Facebook page is being powered by coal, then it’s contributing to climate change."

The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates.

His goals? Avoid global catastrophe from climate change. Eliminate worldwide carbon emissions by 2050.

“These solar cells have, for the first time, surpassed the conventional light-trapping limit for absorbing materials,”

A new type of nuclear reactor—smaller than a rail car and one tenth the cost of a big plant—is emerging as a contender to reshape the nation’s resurgent nuclear power industry.

The two scenarios underscore the promise and pitfalls that consumers and utilities could face as utilities make a move to the so-called smart grid and make the biggest upgrades ever to the nation’s decades-old electrical grids. It’s an undertaking President Obama has compared in significance to the building of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.

Watch out, California.

Controller With so many smart meters being installed and smart appliances in development, how are they going to talk?

"Will we have to wait for the next generation to take power before anything happens?" asked UM environmental studies professor Robin Saha.

Steger replied that young people in general and residents of scenic wonderlands such as Montana are his best hope.

"In addition to providing critical support for job growth in America, further development of NGVs and NGV infrastructure will help reduce our national trade deficit and dependence on oil from unstable and unfriendly regimes."