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• The Limits to Renewable Energy

  Don Kopecky, Senior Supervising Engineer, WorleyParsons

  05.02.08 - There is much talk recently about the extent to which we can replace our dependence on fossil fuels with energy derived from renewable resources. While renewable energy holds great promise, there are some limitations to renewable forms of energy (as there are with anything) which are very widely proclaimed and generally used as "proof" that they can never solve all our problems.
  

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• Finding Middle Ground in our Energy Future

  

  Ben Cipiti, Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories

  04.18.08 - In the battle between climate change, energy policy, and capitalism the weakest voice at the table is that of the average person. While industrial lobbies have tremendous power in the government and while environmental organizations increasingly have more influence, somehow the voice of the average American has been missing from the discussion.
  

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• Canadian Energy in a Changing Climate

  

  Harry Valentine, Commentator/Energy Researcher

  04.09.08 - The Northeastern United States receives a large percentage of its electrical power from Canadian hydroelectric power dams. California imported electric power from the hydroelectric power dams of British Columbia during a power shortage.
  

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• The State of Large-Scale Solar

  

  Tam Hunt, Director of Energy Programs, Community Environmental Council

  04.04.08 - Large-scale solar is about to rise on the energy scene with unprecedented impact. The revolution in small-scale solar is well-known, with installation of small solar systems in California, New Jersey, Germany, Japan and Spain setting records each year. But the time for 5 megawatt and over systems seems to have arrived.
  

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• Some Friendly Economics for the Nuclear Energy Booster Club

  Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor

  03.26.08 - I would like to begin this brief exposition with a bizarre fairy tale that was confected by two well known energy experts, Amory Lovins and Joseph Romm, and published in Foreign Affairs (1992-93), which is the prestigious journal of the (United States) Council on Foreign Relations. It goes like this...
  

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• The Case for Expanding Pumped Hydroelectric Storage

  

  Harry Valentine, Commentator/Energy Researcher

  03.21.08 - Advances that are occurring in energy conversion technologies and in the marine shipping industry could strengthen the case for high capacity pumped hydraulic energy storage at Niagara Falls.
  

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• Solar Energy Technologies: What's in Store

  

  Elizabeth Roberts, Marketing Strategist

  03.07.08 - According to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the number of states that have adopted renewable portfolio standards stands at 26, with more states poised to jump on the bandwagon. These mandates require electric utilities to provide a percentage of their power from renewable sources like solar and wind.
  

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• America is Running Out of Electricity

  

  Alan Caruba, CEO, The Caruba Organization

  02.27.08 - The provision of electrical power nationwide has become the chosen battleground for environmental groups laboring night and day to insure there will not be enough of it to meet our needs.
  

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• The Latest NOx Challenges: Why Plants are Integrating NOx-Control Hardware with Optimization Software

  Peter Spinney, Director of Market & Technology Assessment, NeuCo, Inc

  02.22.08 - The race to the finish line is on. A new wave of emissions regulations is about to impose unprecedented challenges on United States fossil-fired generation plants, and many power companies are hard at work installing NOx control hardware that ranges from combustion controls to post-combustion SCR and SNCR systems.
  

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• New Beginnings: Hybrid-Nuclear Energy

  

  Michael Keller, President and CEO, Hybrid Power Technologies

  02.06.08 - The world is facing an increasingly vexing problem caused by reality colliding with the desire for environmentally clean, yet inexpensive energy. In one corner are coal plants that can generate low-cost power using abundant reserves of coal, but if emissions are unrestrained major health and environmental impacts can occur. In another corner are natural gas power plants that can produce energy with relatively low emissions, but the cost to the consumer is becoming increasingly painful.
  

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