The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) today released its Proposed Decision on Issues Relating to Future Savings Goals and Program Planning for 2009-2011 Energy Efficiency and Beyond. The Decision lays out recommendations (many of which will likely turn into rules) on how to move into the future with California's already effective Demand-Side Management and End-Use Energy Efficiency programs. California has been in the energy efficiency game longer than most governments, and in the past 30 years California policy has severely curtailed per-capita energy demand growth. The state's efforts serve as a models for other states and nations implementing their own...

Judge Tashima said that the Bush administration is at war with the rule of law.

Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday. Many interesting things come out of this new prize. A classmate commented "It will be interesting if they can get this done before NASA, and potentially for about 1/10th the price". 'They' are the now anonymous but very well funded inventors. But what counts as the price? I would include the cost of invention, in addition to the $30m....