Maley's Energy Blog

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/business/energy-environment/for-hybrid-and-electric-cars-to-pay-off-owners-must-wait.html?_r=1&hp#

“Gas would have to approach $8 a gallon before many of the cars could be expected to pay off in the six years an average person owns a car.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2012/03/29/burning-green-energys-chances-of-survival/

“We drew a line in the sand and the Calico solar project crossed it,” says Johanna Wald, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which joined with the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife to stop development. “The Calico project, however, is an example of a solar project done wrong from the start.”

Sound familiar? Conservation groups have told California authorities that a proposed wind project there would kill off rare birds. Green groups are opposing a 100-turbine wind farm in Kern County that is to be developed by NextEra Energy. Opponents want the project relocated.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvertiser/obituary.aspx?n=earl-scruggs&pid=156751186

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/north_counties/booms-continue-in-clintonville

Authorities say the reports came from the same part of the city that has been experiencing the booms for more than a week, but there were also some reports farther west, including Clinton Avenue. Several callers told police that these booms were stronger than those from last week, but no damage has been reported.

City officials have been in contact with the U.S. Geological Survey about the latest booms. City Administrator Lisa Kuss says she called them last night when the booms were reported, she says she plans to touch base with them again Wednesday morning. …

Last week, officials confirmed a magnitude 1.5 earthquake hit the city.

P.S. There probably isn’t any fracking going on within 500 miles of Clintonville. So Global Warming must be to blame.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/U-S-will-move-to-allow-Atlantic-seismic-research-3439560.php

Assessment of the potential resource of oil and gas off the U.S. east cost has to date been based on 25+ year-old seismic data. A newer generation of seismic will better define drilling potential and allow us to make more informed decisions about exploring there.

But it would be at least five years before the government sold any leases in Atlantic waters. Interior Department plans governing those decisions through 2017 do not include selling leases in the region.

Commercial production, if and when it ever happens, is a long, long way off.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/fresh_off_success_in_la_democr.html

WASHINGTON — If all goes according to Hoyle, after the Louisiana secretary of state’s office certifies Friday the results of the Louisiana presidential primary, the state Democratic Party will determine that a Chattanooga, Tenn. attorney by the name of John Wolfe Jr. is eligible for at least three delegates to the Democratic National Convention in September. …

And Wolfe, who ran second in Saturday’s Louisiana Democratic primary behind President Barack Obama, said he has done it all for less than $5,000 — the threshold at which he would have to file a statement of candidacy and campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission, which he has not yet done.