Energy Rant
Cut through the fluff with candid, expert takes on energy policy, programs, and industry trends. Written by our CEO, Jeff Ihnen, the Energy Rant is a blog that challenges assumptions, questions status quos, and delivers sharp insights with just the right dose of irreverence.
Is Theodore Nugent Vegan?
The EPA since the beginning of time, when I was born maybe, has provided city and highway mileage ratings for ...
Of Car Dealers and Bathroom Tissue
Is there anything as mysterious as the price of a car, especially a new one? I’ve heard the various prices so ...
A Frivolous Novelty
For this week’s publication, I was trying to think of an expensive, short-lived, duplicative, inconvenient, ...
Planet of the Alpha Ape – EE Killer
I know next to nothing, no, make that nothing about anthropology. However, on several occasions I have read that ...
LEED and Immortality
I was recently reading a letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal where the reader blasted ag biotech ...
Oil Slick Musings
It’s been about a month since I prognosticated and reflected on the BP disaster in the golf. Let’s see how things ...
Disaster in the Gulf
Like millions of people around the world, I have been following the slow nightmare that is unfolding in the gulf. ...
Greenpeace – Don’t Let Facts Get in the Way
Back in the day when I was in the nuclear Navy, Greenpeace was not so infrequently pulling stunts like running ...
Wind Energy and the Utility Business Model
The masses want power on demand without interruption or failure. They want it at a practically negligible cost ...
Jacque – Fix My Car
There is a running joke in our business that electrical engineers don’t know anything about energy efficiency. It ...
The More You Spend, The More You Save
Talk about an oxymoron. Years ago this was a favorite saying of my roommate and I as we lambasted dopey ads on ...
LEED and the NOT Happenin’ Savings
Studies have shown that LEED buildings are no more efficient and have no less of a “carbon footprint” than the ...
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