http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Sun, 19 May 2013 07:43:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/the-microgrid-solution/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/the-microgrid-solution/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:10 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36594 Last October, Superstorm Sandy provoked widespread frustration and fear after it left more than 7.5 million people in the New York Metro area without power. In the hardest hit areas, outages lasted two weeks or more. These failures led many observers to wonder if America’s aging electrical grid was up to dealing with emerging climate and other challenges.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/15/the-microgrid-solution/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/19/rare-earth-metals-will-we-have-enough/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/19/rare-earth-metals-will-we-have-enough/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:21:01 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=30542 Cell phones, iPads, laptops, televisions, hybrid cars, wind turbines, solar cells and many more products depend on rare earth metals to function. Will there be enough for us to continue our high-tech lifestyle and transition to a renewable energy economy? ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/19/rare-earth-metals-will-we-have-enough/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/18/giulio-verne-and-the-windmills/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/18/giulio-verne-and-the-windmills/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:50:38 +0000 CERC Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=21609 Like some Quixotic dream, at long last the formerly Dutch island of Manhattan reaches westward for windmills.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/18/giulio-verne-and-the-windmills/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/is-biomass-really-renewable/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/is-biomass-really-renewable/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:30:43 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16945 Ninety percent of all existing biomass power plants use wood residue and there are currently 115 power plants in development that will burn biomass to generate electricity. But just how renewable is biomass energy?]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/is-biomass-really-renewable/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/18/the-policy-buffet-part-4-eulogizing-the-climate-bill-that-wasn%e2%80%99t/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/18/the-policy-buffet-part-4-eulogizing-the-climate-bill-that-wasn%e2%80%99t/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:37:11 +0000 Adam Fischer http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=5685 On July 22, just days before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared that the last decade was the warmest on record, the United States Senate abandoned its effort to put a price on carbon. Comprehensive climate and energy legislation was on life-support for weeks until Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) announced that [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/08/18/the-policy-buffet-part-4-eulogizing-the-climate-bill-that-wasn%e2%80%99t/feed/ 1