Category Archives: Energy

Presentation on Climate Change and Employment

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 9, 2010

The next installment in a series of presentations created by Green Group Boston members is a presentation by Dr. David Heimann, who has held positions in government, industry, and academia, performing research and activities in reliability modeling, simulation, database management systems, probabilistic modeling, software analysis, and software process improvement. Possessing a received a B.S. in [...]

Climate Change, Economic Updates, Energy, Environment

Sean O’Reilly’s Wind Energy Production Presentation

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 3, 2010

SeanO’Reilly Wind Energy Production As states and regions increasingly embrace onshore and offshore wind energy to adhere to renewable portfolio standards, Sean O’Reilly wanted to share the presentation he gave to the Green Group Boston several weeks back. His presentation discusses both community and industrial scale wind energy production, including aspects of design and implementation, [...]

Climate Change, Economic Updates, Energy, Environment, Public Policy

Green Group Boston Introduction

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 20, 2010

Greetings BeyondEconomics.org readers! Prof. Robert Kaulfuss has been gracious enough to allow the members of the Green Group Boston to post on his website. On behalf of the members of the Green Group Boston – an academic resource and networking group for the green economy – we’d like to sincerely thank him. In the coming [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Uncategorized

Gulf Oil Leak News, Images, Data, and Diagrams – 7/5

1 Comment Posted by on July 5, 2010

For More Technical Information and Updates The Oil Drum Blog (latest updates and commentary) The Oil Drum Channel Resources (comprehensive summary) Atlantic Tropical Storm Forcast A History Presidential Promises About Energy Policy (From The Daily Show, 6/16) Diagram of Relief Well Drilling Operation First (large) diagram shows approximate scale for depth operations. Second (smaller) diagram [...]

Energy, Environment, Gulf Oil Disaster, Public Policy

The Senate Climate Bill

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 25, 2010

If it was not already clear that Congress is our greatest national security threat, here is more evidence. From the NY Times Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate Bill The article mentions that Senator Lindsey Graham has voiced his outrage over reports that Harry Reid and the White House are planning to take on [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Government, Issues, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Unconventional Natural Gas: A Game Changer?

1 Comment Posted by on March 17, 2010

Perhaps. You may have heard about hydraulic fracturing (“fracing”, pronounced “fracking”) and horizontal drilling, a technique to release natural gas trapped in hardy shale-rock formations. These sources of natual gas around the world have been known about for some time but not thought to be economically viable. This article from The Economist has major implications [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized

Bill Gates, Climate Change, & Conservation

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 23, 2010

In a recent article in The Huffington Post, Bill gates suggests that we should focus on innovation rather than conservation in order to bring about the CO2 reductions needed to stave off climate change. I think he does make some good points here. Why We Need Innovation, Not Just Insulation (1/20/2010) If the goal is [...]

Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Politics

Commodity Prices

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 14, 2010

The following article discusses a developing consequence from the 1 trillion dollars in excess liquidity pumped into the banking system. The money is driving up prices on a variety of different commodities, which threatens the US consumer and producer with rising costs. Yet, for some reason, Bernanke continues to insist that there is no threat of inflation [...]

Charts, Economic Updates, Energy, Finance, Issues, Markets, Monetary Policy

Global Warming or Global Cooling?

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 31, 2009

You be the judge: If it’s the month of May and we have a week that is colder than a warm spring day in March, would you conlclude that winter is coming back? That seems to be the logic of some when it comes to understanding climate change. The climate change denial campaign is cherry-picking the underlying [...]

Charts, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Issues, Uncategorized

Using Corn for Ethanol

1 Comment Posted by on August 16, 2009

Mazed and Confused, Economist, 8/10/09 From what I can gather the connection goes something like this (much simplified, of course): All-important Iowa presidential caucus -> support for corn for ethanol -> U.S. soybean crop displaced -> Brazilian soy crop displaced -> arable grazing land for cattle (for hamburgers, etc.) displaced -> rain forest burned and [...]

Energy, Environment, Issues

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