WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

Dear readers, WattHead is currently on hiatus. These days, you can find Jesse Jenkins' writing at several sites: The Breakthrough Institute TheEnergyCollective.com National Journal - E...

http://www.watthead.org/2012/02/watthead-is-on-hiatus.html

This is a guest post by Rebecca Anderson, ACE Sierra's Educator and Team Scientist This is weird. Today at 1:51 pm Eastern time a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck northwest of Richmond, VA. It...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/08/earthquake-in-virginia.html

Over at the National Journal's Energy forum , my Breakthrough Institute colleague Alex Trembath and I have a new submission to their ongoing discussion asking "How Can Washington Green America'...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/08/national-journal-surviving-coming-clean.html

My colleague Sara Mansur & I have an op ed in today's San Francisco Chronicle, issuing a stern rebuttal to the revival of the "No Nukes" concerts this Sunday at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA....

http://www.watthead.org/2011/08/say-no-to-no-nukes-revival.html

In the pages of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)'s Making It quarterly magazine, I and my colleague and Breakthrough Institute Senior Fellow Harry Saunders published an...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/06/unido-does-energy-efficiency-lead-to.html

Its funny how a simple thing like a computer virus can make take a step back appreciate your business. This morning a virus shut down my computer and let me have some time to just think about the...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/06/5-reasons-i-love-solar-panel-industry.html

Live Webcast June 29, 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT Following the earthquake and tsunamis that tragically impacted Japan in March, the unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has captured pu...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/06/webinar-fukushima-and-nuclear-power-can.html

Shreya Indukuri and Daniela Lapidous, ACE Youth Advisory Board members and juniors at the Harker School in San Jose, CA, paid a visit to the White House yesterday, but they didn't just go for a ...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/06/ace-students-offer-white-house-fresh.html

As the Memorial Day Weekend approaches, many of us are planning road trips — according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), over 30 million Americans will get in their personal vehicle...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/05/how-much-gas-do-you-use-track-gas-use.html

By Jesse Jenkins and Sara Mansur Kevin Drum's recent post on the low price elasticity of demand for oil has reignited an old debate over gas taxes and energy innovation . Drum draws our att...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/05/weighing-in-on-gas-tax-debate.html

By Daniela Lapidous, high school junior at the Harker School in San Jose, CA, and member of the ACE Youth Advisory Board Phew… it’s been a week since one of the most amazing weekends of my ...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/04/unified-diversity-lessons-from.html

Cross posted from Climate Central . To better understand the state of the nuclear power industry, Climate Central has built the following interactive map of nuclear facilities as reported by...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/04/interactive-map-all-worlds-nuclear.html

I'm reminded recently of Daffy Duck fighting with Bugs Bunny , the duck demanding that it's Rabbit-Hunting Season and Bugs refuting that it's Duck Season. In this cartoonish analogy, President Ob...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/04/election-season-or-innovation-season.html

Cross posted on Climate Central . As the world continues to watch the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant unfold, many are asking what the repercussions will be for the future of nuclear ...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/interactive-maps-worldwide-nuclear.html

WattHead.org Founder and Chief Editor and Breakthrough Institute Director of Climate and Energy Policy Jesse Jenkins was on NPR's Weekend Edition this past Sunday discussing Japan's nuclear cr...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/wattheads-jesse-jenkins-on-npr-nuclear.html

Cross posted on Climate Central . This click-able map shows the 104 active nuclear reactors in the Lower-48 states, overlaid with both recent earthquakes and the 15 strongest earthquakes in the...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/exploring-earthquake-risks-to-us.html

For the second time in eight months, a coalition led by California Rep. Devin Nunes has proposed their Roadmap for America’s Energy Future (H.R. 909) . The plan, introduced in the House last we...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/roadmap-for-americas-energy-future.html

By Matthew Stepp, Clean Energy Policy Analyst, ITIF There is a growing chorus of experts, businesses, and public sector leaders espousing for one key clean technology: small modular nuclear r...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/nuclear-energy-game-changer-thoughts.html

In the latest in DC's battle over the federal budget, the Senate Democrats released on Friday their plan to fund the government through FY2011, which would make substantial cuts in federal energy...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/senate-democrats-propose-across-board.html

Cross posted on Climate Central . Welcome to Climate Central's weekly science round up. Among last week’s noteworthy research papers were an investigation of over-estimating improved energy e...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/climate-science-roundup.html

by Matthew Hourihan and Matthew Stepp, Policy Analysts for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation There are times when the nation’s political leadership in Washington is perfect...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/fierce-urgency-of-now-notes-from-arpa-e.html

This column originally published at the Breakthrough Institute blog I've said it before and I'll say it again: when it comes to the global climate challenge, as goes China, so goes the world....

http://www.watthead.org/2011/03/climate-challenge-hinges-on-fueling.html

Originally published at Americans for Energy Leadershi p | By Natalie Relich In the age of iPhones, Facebook, and Twitter, we have instant access to information and constant means of communicati...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/02/solving-energy-poverty-problem.html

Originally posted by Sara Mansur at the Breakthrough Institute Last week, a group of Senate Democrat leaders unveiled their plan to build off of the innovation-centered budget proposal releas...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/02/senate-democrats-agenda-aims-to-invest.html

Today, we have an op-ed published in the Presidents' Day edition of The Plain Dealer, the largest newspaper in Ohio. The op-ed, "Winning Ohio's energy future ," arrives one day before President ...

http://www.watthead.org/2011/02/presidents-day-winning-our-energy.html