electricity

  • Keeping up with the electricity-saving Joneses

    If you knew how much energy your neighbor was conserving, would you clean up your own act?
  • China powers up

    Proof positive that Keynesian fiscal stimulus works: Chinese electricity production just hit an all-time high
  • China solar, Inc.

    2000 megawatts here, 2000 megawatts there, pretty soon you are talking about world renewable energy domination
  • Can we afford our technological salvation?

    Bad news for techno-optimists: New research suggests that advanced manufacturing technologies are ever-more energy intensive.
  • Big plans from the federal electricity man

    Jon Wellinghoff, the new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, talks up a smart grid future -- full of plugged-in hybrids and lots of renewable energy juice.
  • China powers up while Greenland melts

    Another year, another 90 gigawatts of generating capacity added to China's electricity grid. Are they paying attention in Bali?
  • Where have all the line technicians gone?

    Why don't Americans want to climb up the utility pole? Are they afraid of getting electrocuted or is it just not worth the bother?
  • California power gridlock

    A drought plus a heat wave equals bad news for the air-conditioned easy life.
  • Is an airplane iPod charger a green breakthrough?

    A new gadget to charge your music player during flight points to ways to "harvest" the leftover energy floating around us.
  • Extended daylight saving time: Bah, humbug

    New research suggests diminishing returns from congressional clock-tweaking.
  • China's boom and doom

    China now produces tons of cheap clothes, electronics and raw materials -- and dizzying amounts of pollution beginning to taint the globe.
  • Insurgents cutting off Baghdad's power

    A report in the New York Times says that in the battle over Baghdad's power supply, the insurgents are winning.
  • The best case for industrial policy

    California knows how to (energy efficiently) party
  • Blowing away the nukes

    Wind power is booming. So is nuclear power. Which is cheaper?
  • Saving the world by building a better light bulb

    Edison's 19th century invention still burns on, a wasteful contributor to global warming. There's got to be a better way.
  • What if you deregulated a market, and no one cared?

    Even in the states where electricity deregulation has supposedly worked, there's little choice for consumers and scant savings.
  • Undermined by Big Coal

    In Pennsylvania's coal country, some people's homes are literally sinking into the ground -- because big mining companies own the earth under them.
  • Let them eat coal

    Democrats charge that the Bush energy plan leaves the poor in the cold.
  • The deregulation debacle

    Who's responsible for for California's electricity crisis? Everyone.
  • Power and the people

    The electricity industry and the GOP blame NIMBY neighbors for the crisis. Critics say they're trying to turn out the lights on democracy.
  • Gov. Davis and the failure of power

    California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform.
  • Green power in the red

    Electricity deregulation is bankrupting California's fledgling eco-friendly energy industry.
  • Turn off the Internet!

    Is the global computer network to blame for the current electricity crisis? Lackeys of the power industry want us to think so.
  • Artichoke power!

    Spanish villages plan to burn giant veggies for electricity.

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