Every time some new information comes out about clean energy technologies, it can be very exciting - seeing lower costs for solar panels - or depressing- realizing that clean coal is probably a pipe dream.  Popular Mechanics takes a look at clean energy technologies and sets about “Debunking the Top 10 Energy Myths” here.

Another day, another let’s-bomb-the-oil-leak idea.
A civilian scientist working for the Marine Corps thinks we can seal the Gulf oil leak by using the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.

Tom Keane, a Boston Globe columnist, wrote an opinion piece in the Globe’s Sunday magazine telling Cape Wind’s opponents “enough already.”  Mr Keane admonishes the Cape Wind opponents for fighting against the offshore wind farm for almost a decade based on their so-called concerns birds, fish, Indian tribes and the environment. According Keane, the reason the opponents have been so tenacious is —and always has been — the views from their houses.

Kevin Costner is a Hollywood star who puts his money where is mouth is - $26 million to be precise. After the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, Kostner, his brother and scientist, Dan Kostner, and a group of investors and developers created a machine that cleans oil from seawater.
Mr. Costner’s machine, named “Ocean Therapy” is a high-speed centrifuge oil separator . When placed on a barge, the Ocean Therapy will draw in oil-polluted water and discharge 97% clean water.  Costner’s team obtained a license from the Department of Energy …

We previously wrote about the Plastiki here .  They made it to Christmas Island on April 27. And, after a few days rest, they are off again for Fiji.  Here is an interview with the crew members in the New York Times at http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/aboard-the-plucky-plastiki/
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohane/177214257/

GreenBiz published an interview with Waste Management CEO, David Steiner Monday.
Steiner admits that Waste Management’s industrial customers are driving changes at his company.  The goal now is, not only the efficient disposal of waste, but getting value out of waste.
“Our larger industrial customers have been driving the change [toward zero waste]. They are motivated for environmental and for business reasons. Walmart was one of the first. They put out 450,000 pounds of trash a day. They are looking for innovative ways to reduce costs and recognized the potential value in their …

The undersea volcano, Marsili, off the coast of Italy is worrying volcanologists. It has a large magma chamber that is structurally weak. On Monday experts warned that the chamber could collapse at any time sending a tsunami toward the coast of Italy and Sicily.

Remember when Al Gore kept repeating the phrase, “The science is settled,” while he presented his inconvenient truth on global warming?   Well, the science is now publicly - unsettled.
The Daily Mail reports that Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the center of the Climategate or the”hide-the-decline” scandal admitted that “for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.”
The revelations don’t end there. The Daily Mail continues:
“Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have …

The Hill is reporting on a email received from Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) today in which the Senator opined that:
“The inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that this issue has stalled is dead wrong . . . This is not and never has been a partisan issue, and Senators Graham, Lieberman, and I will continue building consensus on both sides of the aisle with all those willing to engage to create jobs, advance our security interests, reduce pollution, and make America more competitive,” said Kerry, a key advocate of a climate change legislation.”
Photo: Nasa …

Walter Russell Mead, the foreign policy expert, historian, teacher, and self-proclaimed lifelong Democrat opines about climategate, glaciergate, the IPCC and the death of global warming at his blog at  the American Interest Online
It is well-worth taking the time to read.
Photo: NASA images -  http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarchi/2529459067/
Reference:   http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/01/the-death-of-global-warming/
KJC