Russ McBee

Today, Al Gore gave a speech at George Washington University in which he called for a massive push to transform our energy economy; he audaciously suggested that we can and must convert 100 percent of our electricity generation to clean sources within a mere ten years. By relying on solar, wind, and geothermal for all of our electricity, he said ...

Among other already-tangible effects, climate change has begun to have a negative impact on the coffee crop in Uganda: ''Climate change has affected coffee production already,'' said Philip Gitao, executive director of the East African Fine Coffees Association. The crop has had less time to mature because rain is falling at the wrong times, ...

This Bloomberg article (via Andrew Eder) goes into quite a bit of detail about TVA's current and past nuclear program. This part caught my eye (although I don't know how these estimates were derived): Investment banking consultant Gary L. Hunt, president of Global Energy Advisors in Sacramento, California, estimates the cost of building a ...