An Atlas of U.S. Renewable Energy Resources

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

[singlepic=347,520,420,watermark,center] Optimal Biomass on Left = Blue, Red Load centers = Green Biomass technology converts bio-based feedstocks like wood, agricultural waste, and yard waste through combustion into electricity. Biomass fuel is either directly combusted in a boiler, or gasified and then combusted, or turned into a liquid fuel that can be combusted. The ...

BLM Decides U.S. Energy Destiny . . . Again

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Bureau of Land Management's decision to suspend U.S. solar energy projects until it completes an environmental review will make it impossible to transmit solar energy from power plants to end users in the southwest. The maps below show BLM owned land in the southwestern United States with validated solar-energy ...

The Plot Against Solar Energy Killed U.S. Wind Power Decade Ago

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

[singlepic=195,520,420,,center] Map of Promising Sites for Wind Power The Bureau of Land Management eclipsed the promise of solar energy in the United States yesterday. The tragic fate of the U.S. wind power industry in the 1980s illustrates how the BLM's decision will impact the still embryonic U.S. solar energy industry. U.S. Windpower, the ...

The Heartbreaking Demise of Southwestern Solar Power

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Bureau of Land Management said it will suspend all new solar energy projects on federal land for the next two years until it completes an environmental impact review. As discussed briefly in the preceding post, the BLM holds the country's most valuable sites in terms of solar energy ...

Government Study of Solar Energy on Federal Lands Suggests Nefarious Motives for U.S. Solar Energy Freeze

Friday, June 27th, 2008

[singlepic=164,520,370,,center] Map of World's Solar Energy Resources The U.S. Department of the Interior wants to kill solar power exactly where solar power is most promising - southwestern United States. The BLM manages more land – 258 million surface acres – than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is ...