http://blocksindicator.com Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:17:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Ray Block There are three energy and climate bill currently before the US Senate. These are: • The American Power Act. • The American Clean Energy Leadership Act. • Lugar Practical Energy and Climate Plan. The first of these-  the American Power Act proposed by Senators Kerry and Lieberman, which is the Senate version ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/06/us-energy-and-climate-legislation-in-2010/ by Ray Block When China paraded its energy efficiency qualifications at the Copenhagen climate change conference, many observers were cynical, believing that Chinese statistics were regularly fudged. Even when McKinsey consultants on assignment in China regularly reported that the Chinese were junking obsolete energy intensive plant and equipment and replacing them with energy ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/06/energy-efficiency-is-the-key-to-chinas-growth/ by Ray Block Having won the fight over national health insurance, followed up by financial reform bills now in the conference stage to be reconciled between the House and Senate, to achieve the trifecta with a climate and energy act in 2010 would be a tremendous achievement for President Obama and ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/06/could-us-climate-and-energy-act-become-law-in-2010/ by Ray Block There is something heroic about the new UK Coalition Government. To have a coalition between political foes is itself heroic. To go one step forward for Prime Minister David Cameron to commit the UK to have carbon emission reductions of 10% over the next 12 months. This is at ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/05/uks-10-carbon-emissions-cuts-in-next-12-months/ by Ray Block The Financial Times energy source blog (May 16 2010) reports that Germany, with the largest Solar PV installations in the world, is about to reduce the gross feed in tariff subsidy on solar rooftop installations by 16 per cent. The cut in feed-in-tariff incentives, along with an 11 per ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/05/solar-pv-subsidies-cuts-in-europe/ by Ray Block Two years ago, the US House of Representatives passed the Waxman Markey Bill regulating greenhouse gases. Two years later, the Senate is still wrestling with its version of the same bill. The latest version by Senators John Kerry, the Massachusetts 2004 defeated Democratic candidate for President and Joe Lieberman, ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/05/confusion-reigns-supreme-in-us-climate-action/ by Ray Block The European Union in a new vehicle strategy released last year is committed to spend E5 billion. The EU’s Green Car Initiative is designed in a multi prong approach to cut carbon emissions, and in providing financial support for research in electric and hybrid vehicles, encourage a growing ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/05/five-million-electric-cars-on-global-roads-by-2020/ by Ray Block The Washington Post published an article by Robert Bryce relating to myths about green energy. Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and has published a book “Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy’ and the Real Fuels of the Future.” The book was published in ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/05/myths-about-green-energy/ by Ray Block In was not until 1982, before the first motor vehicle was assembled in China. And it took a further 10 years before one million vehicles were sold in any one year. But over the last 18 years, an astonishingly giant industry has been created to become in 2009 ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/04/china-to-become-world-leader-in-electric-cars/ by Ray Block Preliminary figures of PV growth in calendar year 2009 by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) suggest that about 6.4 GW was installed worldwide last year reaching a total capacity of over 20GW (20,000 MW). The growth, says EPIA, is particularly impressive given the weak level of demand at ... http://blocksindicator.com/2010/04/solar-photovoltaic-pv-market-resumes-strong-growth/