Mark Burger

There is still a tremendous bias to find "the" answer to the challenge of providing cleanly, affordable and secure energy that is also profitable to investors.  Our centralized, command-and-control way of extracting and delivering non-renewable energy blinds us to the fact that even there, different...

A call for a revolution in how we use energy is overdue.  But the "real" revolution will come when we learn as a society how to harvest it, not mine it.  That means going with renewables and efficiency, not traditional nuclear and fossil fuel systems that are just more of the same, and more...

The reasons why Big Oil does not invest significantly (say, 10% or more of their revenues) in solar and wind power is not conspiratorial.  It is more in the cultural makeup of an organization that is used to doing business largely one way (selling a consumable item) versus one that lasts a long...

The annual US Department of Energy report on wind power spells out details on the American achievement of 5,329 megawatts (MW) of capacity in 2007, the largest increase of any one country, and placing the US ahead of Spain and behind Germany in the Number 2 slot.  The report, issued by Lawrence...