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Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
It’s important to remember that saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions can be achieved by each individual part of an automobile, resulting in better profits for any number of car parts suppliers.
Case in point: Michelin reportedly www.businessgreen.com has developed a new kind of tire that improves fuel economy and reduces carbon dioxide [...]
AT THE END OF ST. PADDY’S RAINBOW: NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The urgent logic of New Energy? Double Green: Good for the environment, good for the bottom line. And it becomes Triple Green on St. Patrick’s Day when The Green Exchange begins trading emissions credits.
In a troubled financial market, there is yet another urgency: The emissions market appears to be uncorrelated [...]
THE SOLUTION IS TECHNOLOGY – FRMR ENERGY SEC’Y
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
James Schlesinger, former CIA Director, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy: “We regularly hear that we must ensure that energy supplies are abundant, affordable and secure—an aspiration devoutly to be wished [that’s Hamlet]…We are not going to have energy security. What we are trying to do is fashion a [...]
CAR MARKET ZAPPED
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
ZAP! is at least as interesting for what it is into as for what it is doing. Around since 1994, it is into energy efficient gas systems, hydrogen, electric, fuel cell, ethanol, hybrid and almost any other innovative power system anybody can think of.
Detroit Electric, ZAP’s joint venture with Chinese [...]
FOR ST. PADDY’S DAY, SAVE IRELAND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From RUNNING TO PARADISE by William Butler Yeats:
“…The wind is old and still at play
While I must hurry upon my way.
For I am running to paradise;
Yet never have I lit on a friend
To take my fancy like the wind
That nobody can buy or bind…”
In Ireland, it often comes back to [...]
CUBA BUILDING WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Cuba: 11.7 megawatts, 11, 394, 043 population = 1.027 megawatts per person
U.S.: 16, 818.78 megawatts, 301, 139, 947 population = 5.585 megawatts per person
Capitalism wins again. BUT – Cuba is aggressively building while the U.S. Senate has put domestic production into limbo by withholding extension of vital tax credits. Write [...]
MYANMAR SAYS NUTS TO ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Myanmar’s ruling junta forced the population 2 years ago to begin growing jatropha, a hardy, drought-resistant, perennial shrub indigenous to Africa and Asia and thought to have excellent potential as a source of biofuel.
Now the country is rife with jatropha. But the junta has not built promised refineries, despite the [...]
Google’s RechargeIT: Plug-in Hybrids
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
5 minutes about Google’s RechargeIT Project to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), with interviews of Jim Woolsey, Chelsea Sexton, Larry Brilliant and others. PHEVs, vehicle to grid (V2G) technology and more from GreenEnergyTV.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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Before Congress: A Future of Wind and Solar
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A 5-minute slice of Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) grilling expert witnesses at his Energy/Climate Change committee hearing, drawing from them a description of the U.S. wind and solar energy future. Along the way, they explain the economics of big energy and why nuclear won’t serve.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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SQUARING OFF: THE FIGHT FOR NEW ENERGY INCENTIVES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is a fight on Capitol Hill to get New Energy incentives through the Senate before they expire at the end of this year. New Energy lost the fight in 2007 and again in February 2008. Already, venture capital is being shifted to nations where policy supports New Energy development. [...]
WASH POST CHINA STORY OPENS BIG OPPORTUNITY IN SOLAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In a March 4 post, SOLAR CELLS BEAT FOSSIL FUELS AGAIN, NewEnergyNews reported on a new study finding solar cell manufacturing to be 90% cleaner than plants powered by fossil fuels. It is safe to say the good news failed to shake anything up anywhere.On the other hand, a March [...]
OIL WARS HEAT UP - BETWEEN CANADA & U.S.
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Yesterday, NewEnergyNews headlined COAL WARS HEAT UP, noting conflict between Virginia rate payers and a new Virginia coal plant because the plant builders cannot promise carbon-capture-and-sequestration (CCS) technology and cannot promise to keep power prices low in the coming emissions-constrained marketplace.Now a war is heating up between Canada and the [...]
NEW TRANSMISSION, NEW WIND FOR L.A.
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The race is on: Those who shrug off the ability of wind energy to assume a portion of base load power generation in the U.S. aren’t paying attention. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) predicts wind energy will generate 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030 if there is adequate transmission. [...]
SOLAR POWER PLANTS IN THE TIMES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In this assessment of solar power plants, a NY Times reporter describes the Nevada Solar One control room operator scanning the sky “to check his fuel supply.” Nice.As frequently covered in NewEnergyNews (see BIGGEST SOLAR PLANT IN THE WORLD), solar power plants are a different order of solar energy generation [...]
COAL WARS HEAT UP
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Consider this a skirmish in the coming coal wars. The warring factions: Coal companies versus electricity rate payers. Notice that environmentalists are no longer one of the factions (consider them an independent militia on the rate payers’ side).The incident setting off this skirmish: Dominion Virginia Power lowered its projected profits [...]
Five (More) Small, Unknown Companies That May Change the World – #5 Lanworth Inc.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Editor’s Note: In keeping with its mission to be solely a news source, this EnergyTechStocks.com special series is presented for information purposes only.
Posted: March 14, 2008
Last fall EnergyTechStocks.com ran a highly-read series of stories about 12 small, unknown companies that may change the world. Special Report — 12 Small, Unknown Companies that May [...]
Demand Response & Energy Management Firm EnerNOC to be profitable within 2-3 Years – CEO Healy (Part 1 of 2)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Having spent tens of millions of dollars over the last several years to develop sophisticated software, EnerNOC Inc. is now in the process of rapidly expanding its sales force, setting the stage for this energy efficiency solutions company to achieve profitability within two to three years, Timothy Healy, chairman and chief executive, told [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-14-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
As everyone knows, nuclear power is emissions free but suffers from waste disposal issues.
A group of university chemists in the U.S. thinks it may have found a way to effectively deal with nuclear waste issues.
As reported here www.sciencedaily.com these scientists think that metal sulfide materials hold great promise for removing strontium from nuclear [...]
Carbon Guru Fusaro: Airlines, Ocean Shipping Companies Could be Big Losers in Emissions Trading (Part 4 of 4)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Having discussed any number of corporate winners that a global carbon emissions trading market may produce, Peter Fusaro, head of his own climate change advisory firm, Global Change Associates in New York, made it clear in his interview with EnergyTechStocks.com that there will also be losers.
Though not a stock-picker, Fusaro left little doubt [...]
Five (More) Small, Unknown Companies That May Change the World – #4 Elektromotive
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Editor’s Note: In keeping with its mission to be solely a news source, this EnergyTechStocks.com special series is presented for information purposes only.
Posted: March 13, 2008
Last fall EnergyTechStocks.com ran a highly-read series of stories about 12 small, unknown companies that may change the world. Special Report — 12 Small, Unknown Companies That May [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-13-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Scientists are reporting that they have found a promising new material for capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks. www.sciencedaily.com
The U.S. scientists believe they have developed a new material that, unlike present materials, is both sufficiently absorbent and inexpensive enough to be used commercially.
While it’s early days, the world desperately needs clean coal generation, so [...]
WIND ENERGY FIRE! NO HARM! NO SPILL! NO SHUTDOWN! BORING!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Ever drive by one of those brand new cars parked on the shoulder of the freeway with the engine burning? Must’ve been a lemon, right? Or some kind of mistake by the new owner.
Mistakes happen. Machines fail. Once in a while something goes wrong. That’s why it’s best when possible [...]
THE GREEN WHO WENT NUCLEAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Patrick Moore once became world-famous as a Greenpeace guy who shielded a baby seal from a hunter’s club. Now he is calling attention to himself again as the Greenpeace guy who went over to nuclear energy. Here’s how he describes the ambivalence he had as a Greenpeace nuclear energy opponent: [...]
WALL STREET’S TAKE ON NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Examples of the insights in The Wall Street Transcript’s Alternative Energy issue, available at a cost of a mere $175.00:
(1) “[Ethanol] was characterized by compressing margins both from the top line and the cost side - a classic margin squeeze. Essentially what we had is an oversupply of ethanol in [...]
ETS Investor Alert 3-12-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
The market for utility power storage technologies is expected to grow a compound average annual growth rate of 8%, reaching $3.8 billion a year by 2013, according to a new report. www.reuters.com
There are many different storage technologies, including: pumped hydro, compressed air, and batteries (lead-acid, sodium sulfur and vanadium redox flow batteries).
The study, [...]
