By Jerry_Toman on July 23, 2009 airplane , assembly line , automobile , Car culture , car-pooling , catalytic refining , coal , electric vehicle , EV , Ford , General Motors , global warming , Great Lakes , green economy , horse , hybrids , ICE , internal combustion engine , interstate highway system , invisible hand , light rail , low density housing , minibus , Mississippi River , Ohio , passenger van , petroleum industry , PHEV , Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle , public transportation sector , radar warning system , River Boats , road hazard detection radar , rush hour pricing , Standard Oil , steam engine , steam-engine propulsion , stop-and-go traffic , Streetcar , suburb , telecommuting , tin-lizzies , traffic congestion , traffic jam , trains , transportation system , Work-at-home Wednesday
By Jerry J. Toman, ScM
This, the fourth article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the issue of our car centric culture; how it has shaped our society and on ways we can shake ourselves free from this unsustainable dependence on spread out cities built around single occupancy vehicles (or SOVs).
By Jerry_Toman on July 8, 2009 Arizona State University , Belo Monte , Brazil , California , CAPE , Caspian Sea , Central Valley Water Project , China , Colorado River , Convective Available Potential Energy , dead-zones , Egypt , El Nino , Electric Plant at Niagara , global weather cycles , Great Lakes , Gulf of Mexico , High Aswan Dam , hydraulic systems , Jerry J. Toman , large dams , levee system , Madeira River , Martin J. Pasqualetti , Mississippi River Basin , natural ecosystems , Netherlands , New Orleans , Nile , petroleum , Philip M. Fearnside , rock weathering , San Joaquin-Sacramento River , Scott Kelly , subtropical , Three Gorges Dam , topsoil , trace-mineral fertilization , tropical , Tucurui Project , Volga
This, the second article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon–Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change — the Top Ten Policies that Feed It; Two New Technologies (and One Old) that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the unintended side effects of large dams and levee systems. It specifically discusses how they are causing serious environmental problems downstream that are becoming more damaging than the benefits that these dams and levee systems provide. In many ways this cautionary tale is applicable to many other technological and large scale engineering interventions into natural systems, especially when these technologies and engineered systems are not well understood.
By Chris de Morsella on May 13, 2009 Bay Windpower , co-generation , Donald L. Carcieri , Energias de Portugal , Federal Mineral Management Service , Force 5 hurricane , Galveston TX , Garden State Offshore Energy , Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company , Great Lakes , GSOE , Gulf Coast environmentalist , Gulf of Mexico , Harold Schoeffler , Herman Schellstede , Hoboken NJ , Hydro Green Energy , jacket foundation , Mackinaw City , Mackinaw Power , Michigan , Mid Atlantic , mobile jack-up platform , monopole foundation , New England , New Jersey , New Jersey Board of Public Utilities , offshore oil & gas industry , offshore oil and gas technology , offshore renewable energy , offshore wind energy sector , offshore wind farms , offshore wind power , Oscillating Water Column wave energy , Principle Power , PSEG Global , PSEG Renewable Generation , Quonset , renewable energy , Rhode Island , Seattle , Texas Gulf Coast West coast , Texas. Deepwater Wind , Washington , wave energy , wind energy sector , wind energy startup , Wind Energy Systems Technology Group , wind turbines , wind-hydrokinetic ocean current power , WindFloat
Recently there has been a lot of news about offshore wind power. The US government has released its long awaited federal regulations governing offshore wind farms, boosting the pace of activity in this sector and propelling it into the nations awareness and media spotlight (at least for a fortnight). As part of covering developments in this wind energy sector we are profiling some of the promising startups in the offshore wind energy sector.