And the King is still coal.
The head of the International Energy Agency warns that the drive to renewables and alternative energy has stalled.
"The drive to clean up the world's energy system has stalled," said Maria van der Hoeven, the IEA's executive director, at the launch of the agency's report on clean energy progress.
"Despite much talk by world leaders, and a boom in renewable energy over the past decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 20 years ago."
Global clean energy investment in the first quarter fell to its lowest level in four years, driven by cuts in tax incentives at a time of austerity, according to a separate report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance this week.
The IEA said that coal-fired generation grew by 45% between 2000 and 2010, far outpacing the 25% growth in non-fossil fuel generation over the same period.
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Your readers may learn a lot by reading a government worker's perspective on his blog:
http://civicengager.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/how-are-form-letters-weighed-one-way-only-against-you/
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