From time to time, we browse recently released Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports and highlight those with potential interest to our readers. This week’s release was so extensive we’ve organized documents into broad categories.

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Many financial experts are concerned that the current US financial market meltdown and the staggering infusion of 700 billion dollars to save it will only result in restoring the status quo.
Some are also concerned that the normal use of fossil fuel consumption will continue at the expense of plans to convert power production towards techniques that could [...]

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Samso is a Danish island that is perhaps the world’s first modern, completely self sustaining, energy producing community.
Samso has a population of 41 hundred people spread over 22 villages and numerous farms. Each year its population swells by 50 thousand as summer residents and tourists come to enjoy the quiet, quaint island way of life.

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It seems logical that coal would be used as the predominant non-renewable fuel of the future until other non-petroleum-based substitutes are fully developed. Coal burns cleaner, despite the false image that associates coal with the dingy, smog-choked air of the old coal-burning cities and towns, particularly during the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, according to The World [...]

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Thinking green leads to new innovations in our home and city building.
Well, the green news today starts off white as in this headline from an article in the Los Angeles Times: “To slow global warming, install white roofs.” Such roofs and reflective pavement in the world’s 100 largest cities would have a massive cooling effect, [...]

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Just how limited are our fossil fuel reserves? Some estimates say our fossil fuel reserves will be depleted within 50 years, while others say it will be 100-120 years. The fact is that neither one of these projections is very appealing for a global community that is so heavily dependent on fossil fuels to meet [...]

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There is a large amount of forest acreage buried underwater as a result of the rapid construction of hydro and irrigation dam projects built from the 1960’s until the end of the last century.
Harvesting the underwater trees could be worth billions of dollars for tropical countries.
Ghana alone has submerged over 14 million cubic meters of [...]

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According to the recently published book, “Green to Gold,” by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew Winston, the top ten environmental issues facing the world today are:
1. Climate Change
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Biodiversity and Land Use
5. Chemicals, Toxics and Heavy Metals
6. Air Pollution
7. Waste Management
8. Ozone Layer Depletion
9. Oceans and Fisheries
10. Deforestation

These issues clearly cut across and [...]

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World energy consumption is expected to increase by 50 percent over the next 20 years, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Total world energy consumption will increase to 721.6 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu) by 2030 according to the EIA, up about 240 quadrillion Btu over today’s current consumption rate.
Fossil fuels, led by petroleum and [...]

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Scientists have taken the childhood pastime of flying kites to new heights in search of renewable power.
Wind farm turbine windmills stand 80 meters high and deal with winds that average 5 kilometers a minute. Winds 800 meters above the earth average 7 Km a minute, a substantial increase, but it would be impractical to build [...]

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