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Fact Versus Fiction on Energy Storage Systems

Often, important emerging technologies get caught up in misconstrued facts and misunderstandings of capacities and roles in an already technology-driven and confusing world. An example of this can be found in a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, "Getting Real on Wind and Solar" by James Schlesinger...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 5:45 PM by Schweitzer, Eric

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, Environment, Regulation, renewable energy, transmission, grid, PHEVs, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, demand response, wind, economic stimulus, meters, Emerging Technologies, Energy Storage

Copper - the new Gold Standard?

Copper prices are at a 6 month high, so is this an indicator of economic recovery? Analysts are not so sure. China has been buying up copper at well beyond its current needs leading to speculation that the copper is going into long term stockpiles rather than to manufacturing. This has led others to...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 1:53 PM by Winstanley, Gerard

Filed under: Economy, Trade

More Leftward Leaning…and Now for Panama

Further to this trend I was pointing out a few weeks ago, now we see that el presidente Rafael Correa won reelection in Ecuador, the first such repeat in three decades. So the people must like him. A close associate of president-for-life hopeful Hugo Chávez, Correa is seeking a constitutional amendment...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 10:53 AM by Eckhart, Eugene

Filed under: Trade, Elections

Winter May Be Over, but a Killer Still Lurks

Life safety advocates have a lot to celebrate this year. Since the beginning of 2009, at least two states (Colorado and Montana) have enacted laws that seek to protect residents and tourists from the dangers posed by carbon monoxide poisoning and another (Washington) is poised to do so in the next few...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 9:00 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Carbon Monoxide

The American Public and Capitalism

American business may be in more trouble than it presently thinks. I'm not talking about the economic collapse, which has manufacturers and other businesses on edge, wondering when we'll see a light at the end of the tunnel. And I'm not talking about the emergence of an activist Congress...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2009 12:55 PM by golds

Filed under: General

California Gets the Smart Grid: Lead the Country without Going Alone

At last week’s Smart Grid Symposium , the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) invited several industry representatives to provide insights on smart grid systems. From their opening statements, Commissioners Chong and Grueneich clearly understand how not to compound the difficulty of system integration...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 9:50 AM by Hsieh, Eric

Filed under: Smart Grid

FOX - Misleading viewers on batteries

The FOX media network’s “Green It-Mean It” video campaign took a turn for the bizarre recently with a segment on single-use batteries. Entitled “Batteries,” the video asserts that most batteries sold each year are disposed in landfills where they “leak toxic chemicals into our land and air.” Behind a...

Published Sun, Apr 26 2009 3:47 PM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Environmental Design, Environment

What Caused the Recession Again?

Conventional wisdom has pretty much established the idea that the housing market crash pushed the U.S. economy into a mild recession at the end of 2007, which then snowballed into what is now one of the deepest recessions in the post-WWII era. However, what if that view turns out to be wrong? In a recent...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 3:28 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economics

Five minutes of fame ...

Is about the only thing the assembled leaders of the Americas could walk away with from President Obama at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas. Except for Hugo Chavez, who turned three minutes of face time into endless new press coverage, to say nothing of the new life he breathed into Eduardo...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 4:32 PM by Eckhart, Eugene

Filed under: Trade

Ghosts of Elections Past, Present and Yet to Come

I keep seeing these ads on TV for the upcoming movie " Ghost of Girlfriends Past " which seems to be about some commitment-phobic guy coming to the realization that he let the love of his life get away and he needs to get her back. The Dickensian look at relationships from the "what was...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 12:23 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Elections

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