Jonathan Fahey
Forbes.com
Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth’s superheated mantle. This is the heat that helps cause volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. And it is the heat that powers a modest number of electricity [...]

Source: Bradley Woods, NY, NY.
Democratic aides for the House Energy Committee are working on a major global warming bill.

Aides for House Energy Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) would not say whether the draft measure will be circulated among lawmakers or released for public comment in the near future.
Prospects for action on a carbon regulation measure remain [...]

By MATTHEW L. WALD, New York Times
Published: August 14, 2008
Companies will build two solar power plants in California that together will put out more than 12 times as much electricity as the largest such plant today, the latest indication that solar energy is starting to achieve significant scale.
The plants will cover 12.5 square miles of [...]

Office Depot has opened its first “Green” store in Austin, TX. The store, pre-certified to LEED standards by the USGBC, will use less energy and water in its daily operations, increase recycling and leave a much smaller overall environmental footprint than the typical store of its size, according to the company.

T. Boone Pickens, 80, has been showing up all over television in recent weeks, talking about the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

With pie charts and a charming drawl, Pickens lays it out this way: “America is in a hole and it’s getting deeper every day. We import 70 percent of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.

The U.S. is facing energy challenges that can only get worse. As global demand continues, readily accessible oil and gas deposits dwindle, competition for world supply accelerates, and costs rise, it is clear that we must develop and exploit alternatives.

A new study makes the case that solar power is emerging as a cost-effective hedge against fossil fuels and is likely to reach cost parity with retail-electricity rates in most regions of the U.S. in less than a decade.