Energetics Cliff Notes - Tuesday Edition

• Kate Sheppard summarizes the last few weeks and the Administration's sluggish response to the oil spill.
• Senator Lindsay Graham criticizes the climate bill he had a heavy hand in creating.
• A recent poll shows deteriorating public support for offshore oil drilling.
• According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Western states could get 35% of their power from solar and wind technology within seven years.
• Michael Giberson discusses the smart grid and the advance of civilization.
• Current Cost, the largest global supplier of realtime power meters, is now compatible with Google PowerMeter.
• Jonathan Hiskes asks: In wake of Gulf spill, should this be the summer of energy reform?
• California Gubernatorial Candidate and current Attorney General Jerry Brown is demanding that the federal government not dismantle PACE, a financing program to reduce electricity use.
• Mother Jones calculates how many offshore wind turbines we could buy for the cost of one Deepwater Rig.
• Paul Krugman talks about regulation and comments lightly on bureaucratic responses to environmental disasters.

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.

Energetics Cliff Notes - Friday Edition

The week that was: coal hearings and Lindsey Graham on Earth Day.

• DOE has a report (pdf) on deficiencies in workforce education and training for smart grid jobs.
• Kate Sheppard sums up coal news, from subsidies in Waxman-Markey to the hearings and student protests this week.
• Surprise, surprise - despite a decrease in 2009, global oil demand hits a new high.
• That said, there's a growing chorus of researchers warning of a coming oil supply crunch.
• Ben Tribbett at Huffington Post calls the Southern States the "Saudi Arabia of energy efficiency savings" - in other words, the South has a huge opportunity in negawatt power.
• The Hill's Energy and Environment Blog has the scoop on a new bipartisan effort to invest in electrification of the transportation industry.
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu has some tough love for the US on its clean tech competitiveness.
• President Obama talks mine safety.
• Just for fun, someone should ask Professor of Climatology Sean Hannity what he makes of March 2010 being the warmest March ever recorded.
• Obama budget proposals seek a shift from incentivizing fossil fuels to incentivizing renewables.