Posts from September 2009
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September 28, 2009
In its advisory role to the MDEQ on pending air permit applications, the Michigan Public Service Commission staff has found in two separate reports that there is no immediate need for either the 930 MW coal-fired plant proposed…
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September 25, 2009
The increase in corn prices brought about by the rush to corn ethanol production was a valuable lesson last year. Now with gasoline prices down, and many corn ethanol plants mothballed, there is time to consider the interplay…
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September 21, 2009
A good example of how agricultural-dependent countries can help sequester carbon and thereby benefit from the concern about carbon dioxide emissions can be found in the Carbon2Markets Program. This program, developed by Michigan State University, is an agro-forestry land management program…
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September 10, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated $45 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the development, design and construction of a dynamometer and test facility to monitor the performance and reliability of utility-scale wind turbine…
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September 3, 2009
For some time there has been a cry for a comprehensive national energy policy. Reliance on the free market to drive energy outcomes has led to a place the country does not want to be. Clean power technology…
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