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Renewables’ Bird Problem
In the lively conversation about how to integrate variable renewables such as wind and solar into our electric grid’s generation mix, an unlikely player has entered the fray: a duck.
Smart Parking Solutions Can Transform Our Cities
When deployed as a system, smart parking reduces car emissions in urban centers and permits cities to carefully manage their parking supply.
Confessions of a Solar Decathlon Architecture Juror
Architects pour their souls into their art, and are more interested in a conversation about ideas than a medal. I’ve had my doubts that competition is a good way to generate wonderful designs, but frankly the 2013 Solar Decathlon, in which I was fortunate enough to be a juror, has generated some wonderful designs and important conversations.
What Did the 1973 Oil Embargo Teach Us?
Forty years ago this month, Syria and Egypt launched a Yom Kippur surprise attack on Israel to regain land and prestige lost in the 1967…
Energy Innovation Can Once Again Show The Way Forward
Forty years ago this week the U.S. and much of Europe learned tough lessons about our addiction to fossil fuels. Our dependence on their dirty energy made us vulnerable.
