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September 18, 2012 11:00 AM A Good Time to Buy Soybeans

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its biodiesel quota for next year on Friday, increasing the amount of plant-based fuel it will require refiners to blend into petroleum-based diesel from 1 billion gallons to 1.28 billion gallons. The agency projects that...

By Max Ehrenfreund

September 17, 2012 11:25 AM An Ambitious Target: Greek Power Cuts

A statistic you probably don’t know is SAIDI, system average interruption duration index. It means the average number of minutes per year for which the customers of an electricity network are deprived of power, not counting short interruptions of 1-5...

By James Wimberley

September 13, 2012 9:57 AM More Green Election Geography

Yours truly, blogging in January on the political geography of renewable energy, and particularly the wide distribution of its sources in the West, South, and Midwest: If the Democrats play this right (especially ensuring that landowners and local communities benefit)...

By James Wimberley

August 09, 2012 1:30 PM Iran and the Nuclear Eventide Home Tour

Some of you asked for something completely different.Iran proudly switched on its first civilian nuclear reactor at Busheyr in 2011. It justifies its nuclear enrichment programme as needed for the development of civilian nuclear power. The USA, Israel, Europe and...

By James Wimberley

May 29, 2012 10:00 AM Like President Reagan, Obama or Romney Could Benefit from Falling Energy Prices

Energy prices have gone through boom and bust cycles in the past, and there is a real possibility that current prices could decline as they did in the 1980s, which fueled rapid economic expansion. Even though presidents have little control...

By Gregory McIsaac