Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
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Finding a way to store energy from intermittent renewable sources like solar and wiod is a holy grail of renewable advocates.
About those legal requirements that a state get part of its power from renewables,
Biomass is any source of energy that was recently alive. And that's where it gets complex.
A guide to different incentives to go solar.
Distributed generation inverts the traditional utility business model: the power company buys energy from you.
Not using energy is way better for the planet than using even the most renewable energy.
There are two basic kinds of solar electric power.
A guide to those slightly wonky metric system energy terms.
It's a common way of conveying the size of a power plant, but it obscures more than it reveals.
It takes energy to make energy.
About 97 percent of our transport runs on fossil fuels. A renewable solution to transportation energy use is thus crucial.
The science behind "the higher you go, the cooler you get."