Financial Markets

PETER W. HUBER
Bound to Burn
Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.

TEUN VOETEN/SIPA
Cheap coal, like that extracted from this Chinese mine, is essential to the developing world’s economic growth.

Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. [...]

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Another top-level view from Peter Huber.
Executive Summary
Electricity—not oil—is the heart of the U.S. energy economy. Power plants consume as much raw energy as oil delivers to all our cars, trucks, planes, homes, factories, offices, and chemical plants. Because big power plants operate very efficiently, they also deliver much more useful power than car engines and [...]

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A replay ?
Energy & Genius
A Brief History of Energy Boondoggles
Daniel Fisher 11.24.08, 12:00 AM ET  Forbes.com
The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $57.5 billion over the past 30 years researching and developing clean energy technologies. In all that time the nation’s energy portfolio has barely budged. Fossil fuel as a share of our energy supply has [...]

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U.S. Department of Energy to Invest up to $13.7 Million for Breakthrough Solar Energy Projects
11 Projects selected from universities across the country
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that DOE will invest up to $13.7 million, over three years (Fiscal Years 2008 – 2010), for 11 university-led projects that will focus [...]

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Much of the innovation in exchanges and derivatives has come from Chicago – not New York or London. Once best known for derivatives in farm products – cattle, hogs etc. _ Chicago leads the rest of the world in innovating and dominating in the trading of derivative products(options, futures, commodities etc), symbolised by the emergence of the Chicago [...]

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