The Colorado River, a water source to at least 30 million people in seven states and Mexico, is drying up. It hasn't reached the sea in ages, and in 2002, for the first time, total demand for the river's water climbed higher than the total river's supply.

"FROM HIS CHILDHOOD IN SEGREGATED MOBILE, ALABAMA, TO HIS RUN-INS WITH A NAY-SAYING SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT, THE ENGINEER LONNIE JOHNSON HAS NEVER PAID MUCH HEED TO THOSE WHO TOLD HIM WHAT HE COULD AND COULDN’T ACCOMPLISH. BEST KNOWN FOR CREATING THE STATE-OF-THE-ART SUPER SOAKER SQUIRT GUN, JOHNSON BELIEVES HE NOW HOLDS THE KEY TO AFFORDABLE SOLAR POWER."

A biotech company plans to announce Tuesday that it has won a patent on a genetically altered bacterium that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ingredients of diesel fuel, a step that could provide a new pathway for making ethanol or a diesel replacement that skips several cumbersome and expensive steps in existing methods.

A biotech company plans to announce Tuesday that it has won a patent on a genetically altered bacterium that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ingredients of diesel fuel, a step that could provide a new pathway for making ethanol or a diesel replacement that skips several cumbersome and expensive steps in existing methods.

.@energyliteracy in email: "the full 1974 Science magazine #energy issue is available as PDF. get your deja-vu on."

RT @seanjoreilly Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Twelve Times Renewables Support:

#China on #energy and national security: "energy supply should be where you can plant your foot on it."

Jon Stewart nails it on #energy: as .@pkedrosky says, funny and sad Must watch

as a follow-up to my last tweet, this looks a seriously good site on the topic of oil and energy: #oil #energy

We've always said that sea snakes could power part of Scotland. And now it's finally happening. #climate #energy

Republicans won't be nudged into cutting home energy - "Some even respond by using more energy" how nice #energy

City announces plan to develop next-generation electricity grid

The report reinforced longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry