Energetics Cliff Notes - Friday Edition

The week that was: Earth Day and the death of the linked fee.

• Bill McKibben talks about Eaarth, his conception of the new planet humans have created.
• A blogger at the Council on Foreign Relations performs an autopsy on the linked fee in KGL.
• What's it like to live without electricity? (via @BillGates.)
• A holistic and promising state climate-energy bill was killed yesterday in Wisconsin.
• 11 workers are still missing after an oil rig SANK yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Secretary Chu announced more than $200 million for solar and water power tech yesterday--glad to see someone in government approaching the energy quest as a technological problem.
• Accenture, a technology consultant, recently published the results of a survey of 9000 consumers on integrated grid management.
• Sen. Lamar Alexander's Earth Day post on nuclear power (via Energy Collective).
• The Energy Bulletin calls April a 'watershed month' for peak oil research.
• Vinod Khosla talks about his venture capital firm's work on energy and transportation technologies.