Renewable Energy World

(11/03/2009) - Last summer, with gasoline selling well above $4.00 a gallon and the presidential campaign in full swing, energy policy was the rage.  From chants of “Drill, Baby, Drill!,” to advertisements by T. Boone Pickens for a natural-gas and wind-led future (now on indefinite hold due to a collapse of financing and commodity prices), to a boom in investing in solar, wind, biomass, and tidal energy sources, energy was everywhere you look. 

I know that I still think about these things a lot, but like the war in Iraq, it all seems to have left the front page.  Its last year’s news.  But like Iraq, the war is still on, and plenty of companies, researchers, and politicians are working to solve problems presented by global warming and other future energy-related problems we’ll probably have to deal with (of course, the extent of these problems is still very much within our power to change).

I recently received a copy of the North American edition of Renewable Energy World.  I thought that I’d pick out some interesting news to share, and show that things are still very much alive in the energy revolution.