Is Google becoming a power utility too?

In addition to installing 1-gigabit-per-second broadband in Kansas City, Kansas, Google is teaming with Kansas City Power & Light to expand the service across the state and to Kansas City, Missouri.

Google is also investing in a project to build 350 miles of transmission line off the Atlantic from Virginia to New Jersey to [...]

Protoscar Lampo3 electric sports car

0-60 in 4.5 seconds

Marin paves the way for expansion of local renewable energy

PG&E fought against it, but Marin Clean Energy in California prevailed and now residents there can choose renewable energy via Community Choice Aggregation. Under Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), communities can choose what type of power they want with distribution left to the big utilities. It recently received a huge boost from the state legislature [...]

Las Vegas wants 65 billion gallons of Utah water annually

The Salt Lake City Tribune says no, as does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Sierra Club. Southern Nevada Water Authority chief Pat Mulroy is known for hardball tactics in her desperate attempts to grab / steal water from wherever possible for a city in the desert with little water [...]

Blame the Voters

From Randy Miller at the Utah League of Independent Voters

Biomass power must meet strict GHG standards in Mass.

Wood may be a renewable energy source but a recent study in Massachusetts concluded that large scale wood-powered electricity plants would create more GHGs by 2050 than coal. New proposed regulations would mean stricter emissions controls for such power plants before they could earn renewable energy credits.

“Wood is problematic because it takes so [...]

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Courts may force release of thousands of California inmates

LA Times

In another example of the paralysis that is the apparent natural state of California politics, the Supreme Court will probably rule in June that the state must release at least 35,000 prison inmates due to severe prison overcrowding, which results in substandard health care.

Goodness, you say, surely this problem must have [...]

Banksters on the run

Greece may default, Ireland can’t sell more debt, Spain may fess up to hiding debt. Norway has frozen loans to Greece. Protests against banks are spreading.

The banksters may no longer be able to force countries to pay for bonds that banks knew were dicey and never should have bought in the first place. [...]