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McCain's energy plan: let the market decide

Now that John McCain has been officially enthroned as the Republican party's choice for the window seat in the Oval Office, it's time to look at his proposals for how to deal with this country's seemingly insatiable thirst for energy. As expected, the focus of McCain's plan is to let the market decide what the best and most efficient means are to reduce America's dependence on imported petroleum and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A cap and trade system that would allow polluters to buy emissions offsets lies at the heart of the plan. Part of ... Read more →

A McCain presidency would mean electric cars powered by nuclear plants, clean coal Sebastian Blanco

News rolled in yesterday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called for a huge increase in the number of nuclear power plants in the U.S.: 45 new plants by 2030, and another 55 ...

VW is OK with EU CO2 targets, proposes nuclear power Jeremy Korzeniewski

It has been said numerous times that German automakers are upset with European proposals which would limit CO2 output to around 120 grams per kilometer. Perhaps we shouldn't be lumping Volkswagen or ...

Will nuclear-produced electricity be low carbon? Domenick Yoney

Faced with the problems of oil supply and environmental factors, it seems quite certain that many of our transportation options in the future with be powered by electricity. Methods of supplying the ...

Coal? No. Ethanol? Not yet. Here's one reader's case for nuclear Sebastian Blanco

The electric car movement has, for the foreseeable future, a problem explaining how to best generate the massive amounts of electricity that plug-in hybrids and pure electrics will need. Right now, ...

Current nuclear technology will not help if climate continues to heat up 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Many politicians and others have promoted nuclear power as a means of addressing climate change since reactors emit no greenhouse gases or noxious pollutants. Setting aside for the moment the issue of what do with radioactive waste (by no means a trivial issue) there are other issues with nuclear ...

How about never refilling your tank for 25 years? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

First I am going to pose a question, then, I am going to make a statement. Here goes: Is nuclear power good or bad? In this particular example, a new submarine for the British Royal Navy is powered by its very own nuclear reactor, and said nuclear reactor will power the machine for its entire ...

Vinod Khosla writes about imprudent environmentalism and "Scheer nonsense" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I have got to tell you that the article linked to here is very long and takes a good while to get through. Then, after you have read the whole thing, you still need time to meditate on all of the points. But, after doing that, feel free to comment on some of the ideas that Vinod Khosla outlines and ...

A Resource Investors thoughts on the State of the Union address: Back lithium, thorium, hydrogen and more 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I am not a resource investor, by any account I am not much of an investor at all, unfortunately. But, there are investors out there who concentrate on our earth's resources. An advisor on the site Resource Investor gave his viewpoints on the technologies and resources required to make the ...

India President outlines energy independence plan 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Indian President, Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam, has addressed the topic of energy independence in his speech to the 94th Indian Science Congress in Tamil Nadu. Raising his concerns for the level of carbon dioxide production through energy production, Dr. Kalam stated that he wanted to focus on how ...

Rifkin: "Our common energy future lies with the sun, not with uranium" 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

We've been hearing a lot about nuclear power lately. Bush mentioned it as an ideal energy source to generate hydrogen fuel. An MIT study proposed two reactor concepts to produce nuclear hydrogen. This Weekend Edition story on NPR finds that a co-founder of Greenpeace is an active supporter. And the ...

GM pushing nuclear power to produce hydrogen 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

GM says nuclear power can generate the electricity needed to produce large amounts of pure hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles. According to an article titled "Live Green, Go Nuclear" in Wards Auto, GM treated journalists to a tour of nuclear power advancements at the Idaho National Laboratory. For ...


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