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Showing just how desperate the world is for more oil, the Canadian government reportedly may permit greenhouse gas emissions from its vital tar sands region to triple. www.canada.com
This emphasis on energy over environment may backfire, however. Environmentalists are already up in arms over the environmental destruction being caused by oil sands extraction in [...]
‘Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #4 - Redirect Corn Ethanol Subsidies into Garbage
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Every energy expert says there is no one “silver bullet” for solving the global energy crisis. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a bunch of silver bullets, each one of which might solve a part of this crisis, and do so in a way that makes investors a lot of money. EnergyTechStocks.com has [...]
Green Accounting Expert Bruce McCabe: How Many Stars Does your Breakfast Cereal Have? (Part 2 of 3)
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Shopping for food in a giant supermarket chain like Britain’s Tesco is about to take on a whole new dimension. Within a couple of years, every jar, package of breakfast cereal and so on will carry a label showing that product’s “carbon footprint,” according to Bruce McCabe, “green accounting” expert and managing director [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-26-08
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Sony Corp. is developing a green reputation, according to a new survey by the environmental group Greenpeace. www.greenercomputing.com
The survey found that a Sony-made notebook, mobile phone and PDA were the most environmentally friendly models on the market in their categories.
It’s good news for Sony, because experts say a company’s “greenness” increasingly will be [...]
‘Silver Bullets’ for Solving the Energy Crisis #3 – Adopt the Berkeley Solar Financing Model
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Every energy expert says there is no single “silver bullet” for solving the global energy crisis. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a bunch of silver bullets, each one of which might solve a part of this crisis, and do so in a way that makes investors a lot of money. EnergyTechStocks.com has [...]
Australian IT Expert Bruce McCabe: Global Businesses to Spend $600 Billion on ‘Green Accounting’ (Part 1 of 3)
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The cost to global business for the information technology that will be needed for sustainability accounting and carbon footprint measuring will come to nearly $600 billion over the next few years, three times what companies spent preparing for Y2K, according to Bruce McCabe of Australian IT research firm S2 Intelligence Pty Ltd.
From his [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-25-08
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The incredible cost of global warming keeps coming into focus. Last week the Japanese government said that to significantly reduce its carbon dioxide by 2020 would cost about $500 billion. www.marketwatch.com
Previously, the United Nations estimated that the global cost over the next couple of decades could total $20 trillion or more.
Where all this [...]
WHY TAX CREDITS ARE NEEDED, WHY OIL SUBSIDIES ARE NOT
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With expertise in both economics and energy, Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley AND director of the University of California Energy Institute AND a faculty [...]
EMISSIONS CUTS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH – THAT WORKS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A synthesis of the best economic models predicts emissions reduction policies need not come at the expense of economic growth. For U.S. leaders who have been told they must cast votes choosing between the urgency of cutting emissions and the urgency of nurturing an economy on which so many depend, [...]
NEVADAN: BET ON SOLAR
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“There is only one source of nuclear energy that really works well,” green living consultant Steve Rypka writes. “It has a proven track record and is extremely reliable. In addition, it has a built-in wireless global delivery system. There is no waste, fuel costs are immune from inflation and the [...]
OHIO WANTS WIND BUT WHEN? AS SPEW WORSENS & COAL KILLS
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An Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) report shows 2007 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased 2.9% over 2006. Ohio ranked second in the nation after Texas.
Melissa McHenry, spokeswoman, Ohio’s American Electric Power (AEP) (owner/operator of 25 coal-burning power plants in nine states), on Ohio’s 2.8% increase in CO2 emissions: “…we also saw [...]
THE NEWEST IN SOLAR CELLS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Solar energy needs to be much, much less expensive than it is right now. Scientists are working (make that racing) to find the best way to increase the efficiency of materials that, when struck by the energy of the sun, generate an electric current they can capture and use.
The science [...]
NEWS ON GLOBAL COOLING WHILE SATELLITE SITES HOT SPOTS
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Information posted by the scientists at RealClimate should put to rest, once and for all, a canard that frequently raises its ugly head in debates about global climate change. The Global Cooling Mole explains that the so-called global cooling excitement of the 70s was a completely unscientific, pop media-driven myth [...]
KANSANS STAND UP TO BIG COAL
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Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius courageously stood up to Big Coal on March 21. She vetoed a legislative effort to override the decision by Rod Bremby, secretary of Kansas’ Department of Health and Environment, to stop the building of a coal-fired power plant.
Bremby made his decision last year (see KANSAS REJECTS EMISSIONS) based on [...]
HOW NEW ENERGY TAKES POLITICAL ACTION – AND WHY
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In politics, leaders concerned with the public’s interest can exert their influence on private enterprise by enacting public policy.
Presently, public opinion polls repeatedly show the public wants and needs New Energy. Old Energy subsidies, established by past public policies, leave little in state and federal budgets to incentivize New Energy and, at the [...]
X MARKS THE ELECTRIC FUTURE
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CEOs don’t get much less equivocal than this – Carlos Ghosn, Chief Executive, Nissan: “In 2008 you are going to see a mixed picture…I think the future would be … zero emission cars. Particularly among urban drivers, there is a lot of appeal. We are pushing particularly this technology but we are not [...]
GORE LIKES INDIA’S NEW ENERGY POTENTIAL
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Speaking in New Delhi at the kickoff for his Climate Project in India, Al Gore acknowledged the right of developing nations like India to strive for a higher living standard but urged Indians to build their 21st century lifestyle on 21st century energy sources. He said India should not imitate the U.S.
Gore: “My [...]
PORTUGAL GOES FOR NEW ENERGY
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Portugal has no coal, oil or natural gas resources. But it has lots of wind, sun, waves and flowing water. It once imported 80% of its energy needs. It now produces over 40% of its power from New Energy sources and is aggressively building more. Economy and Innovation Minister Manuel Pinho: “Not taking [...]
IN BRAZIL, WIND AND HYDRO ARE SWEET
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Brazil is famous in the energy sector for its sugar ethanol production but it keeps turning up in stories about developing a lot of other kinds of resources. Turns out Brazil gets 80% of its electricity from hydro, is one of the world’s leading offshore oil developers and now Portugal’s EDP sees opportunity [...]
Offshore Wind: Up Close and Inspiring
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A beautifully produced minute-and-a-half look at offshore wind in Ireland from GE.
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Solar: Middle East Energy NOT Causing War
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Middle East energy nobody’s fighting about! A 3-minute CBC News close-up look at solar thermal power plants.
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WIND WILL STUDY WIND
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The ongoing conflict between two ranches in Texas over a controversial wind installation (Reported here yesterday: See TEXAS WIND WARS GO TO COURT) is a perfect example of why FPL Energy, a big wind energy builder, would see a need to spend $2 million dollars on yet another academic study of wind energy.
The [...]
THE CASE FOR A CARBON TAX
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Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo argues that global climate change presents an urgent need for mitigation requiring ethical choices about who will pay and when. He convincingly shows that only universal action will be effective and asserts that a carbon tax, left to each nation to administer in its own way, is the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-24-08
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A company called Alternative Fuel Distributors Inc. said in a press release last week that it plans to build and operate 1,000 convenience stores along the U.S. East Coast that will sell only E85 and other alternative automotive fuels. www.prnewswire.com
As the company noted, this would represent a big increase in the number of [...]
Disaster Forecast (Part 1 of 2) - U.S. `Wide Open’ to Another Crippling Power Blackout - Veteran Utility Analyst Scotto
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With reserve margins the lowest they’ve been in at least 40 years, and reliability problems being allowed to fester, the United States is “wide open” to a crippling power blackout, according to veteran electric utility and energy analyst Daniel Scotto.
A blackout lasting several days and affecting millions of people “could occur anywhere in [...]
