Geothermal is the bastard child of renewable energy. Constantly overlooked in articles and headlines in lieu of the much sexier solar and wind, which have become the go to cleantech representatives, geothermal energy use could quietly double in the next six years. It requires no fuel, can provide ba...

We've known for a while now that the stimulus was going to be delivered with a heavy green hue. Obama has talked for months--even during the campaign--about creating green jobs, promoting energy efficiency, and updating our embarrassing energy infrastructure. So it's no surprise that this massive pi...

Wall Street's earnings season is once again upon us. Investors are paying particularly close attention this quarter in reaction to continued economic uncertainty and economic hardship. The smart money knows that this season isn't bearing any gifts; most companies' sales have taken recession-sized hi...

The Energy Watch Group just released a new report about wind energy, dubbed “Wind Power in Context - A Clean Revolution in the Energy Sector.� In it, the EWG authors made no bones about calling out other agencies whose forecasts have been off the mark. The “worst forecasts,� they say, “reg...

The Environmental Protection Agency is, yet again, not doing the very thing its name implies. For the umpteenth time in the past few years, the EPA is simply turning its nose up to carbon emissions, as if it shouldn't and couldn't regulate them. And that's bologna. It started early in 2005, when Cal...

Big oil has once again gone into the confessional - and while oil industry execs have hinted at diminishing available supplies in the past, when prices were high, their recent admission that we're running out of cheap oil is surprising now that prices have slid back down to three year lows. This rec...

This Part 3 of a 3 part series on My Dream Machine (Part 1, Part 2) Tuning. I finished Part 2 with a Windows Experience Index of 4.7 Stated goal: an all round 5.9 for all measurements. Off to order more bits, and change some components in the beastie: General Melchett. Tweaking time.   Video Card. ...