Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46GkHSYvYE The Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has built a model which estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year, nearly 100,000 … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition
Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]
CA Geyser Shows Why Fracked Gas Is a Climate Killer
A massive gas well leak in California northwest of Los Angeles has sickened dozens, forced the relocation of thousands of residents and two schools, and caused untold damage to our climate. As Massachusetts lawmakers consider subsidizing … [Read more...]
Big Oil’s Big Gift
In the final actions of the year, the House and Senate passed a spending bill with a big gift for Big Oil. By permanently lifting the longstanding crude oil export ban, Congressional Republicans made sure it will be Christmas all year round … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Has Tons of Space for Solar. What We Need is Willpower.
Here's an extremely common, and extremely dumb, attack against solar power, repeated in a local op-ed in today's New Bedford Standard Times: As of today, there are more than 4,297 MW of power generation which either has come off line or … [Read more...]
Why Would MA Invest in Kinder Morgan When Wall St. is Selling?
Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan is going to be glad to see 2015 come to a close. It's seen a series of stinging defeats, and its only hope is for a huge gift in 2016 from Gov. Baker and Democrats in the form of energy legislation to force … [Read more...]
Hydro Not An Energy Silver Bullet
Ann Berwick writes in today's Boston Globe that Gov. Charlie Baker has so far overlooked a huge potential made-in-Massachusetts energy source: Offshore wind. As Massachusetts has fallen behind Rhode Island, where construction is already … [Read more...]
Pilgrim Nuclear to Shutter in 2019
Entergy announced today it plans to shutter the aging, rickety Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth in 2019. Ironically enough considering the energy debate on Beacon Hill focuses on how to lower energy costs, Entergy cited low energy … [Read more...]
Notes on How People Think About Climate Change
I attended two climate change lectures recently. One lecture was titled "Clean and Cheap: How Americans Think About Energy in an Age of Global Warming" on 9/17/15 at MIT with David Konisky, Indiana University and the other was "Disruptive … [Read more...]
Otis Voters Approve Windmill, Reject Scare Tactics
Massachusetts voters delivered the latest in a long string of victories for local wind energy yesterday, this time in Otis, as Mary Serreze reports for the Springfield Republican: Voters in this Berkshire County town have approved … [Read more...]
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