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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Manure, for readers unaware of it, is a BIG issue. When animal manure lays on the ground it decays and releases methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas (GhG). It is 20+ times as potent a GhG and contributor to global climate change as the CO2 that comes out of cars’ [...]
MORE THAN SUN-CHARGED SHADE
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It’s called vision. Many Americans, having lived so long with current Washington leadership, may not recognize it.
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) has not just built a solar paneled carport, it has expressed a vision, a vision of the New Energy world of the 21st century.
And it is building [...]
PLUG-IN CARS EVEN CLOSER
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Ray Magliozzi from NPR’s Car Talk: “…There will be electric cars for consumers. Will the majority be electric? Eventually. If I look far enough down the line, I see cars running on nothing but electricity, and that electricity coming from nuclear power. After all, the Klingons are doing it, for [...]
EMISSIONS TRADING: WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Like New Energy, emissions trading is rapidly becoming a nonpartisan passion of a surprising alliance of thinkers. Investment banks, environmentalists, utilities, industrials, climate change fighters and hedge funds (running the gamut from GE, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase and AES to the Environmental Defense Fund, the EU and the Kyoto [...]
CANADA PLANS OFFSHORE WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Michael C. Burns, chairman, NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc.: “We need new sources of energy that exert a minimal impact on the environment. The solution already exists in Europe, where energy constraints demanded an innovative approach decades before North America became concerned about its own domestic supply. The resource of [...]
ETS Investor Alert 4-25-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Given the surge in public interest in doing business with “green” institutions, don’t be surprised if banks that can call themselves “carbon neutral” suddenly see a jump in their stock price.
As this story notes, www.environmentalleader.com Vancouver City Saving Credit Union in Canada just became the first North American financial institution to be carbon [...]
Follow the Money: 5 Firms Grabbing Big Bucks That Belong on Investors’ Radar Screens: #5 GridPoint
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
One way to try to look into the future and get an early read on tomorrow’s winners is to “follow the money.” Which companies are attracting big bucks through deals, venture capital infusions and joint ventures? As a new industry, alternative energy is loaded with companies that will or won’t succeed. Thus a [...]
New Survey Shows Global Warming Will be Crucial Campaign Issue as Younger Republicans Grow Concerned
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
After nearly eight years of bashing other nations’ attempts to regulate a slowdown in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), President Bush reportedly now wants Congress to pass legislation to combat global warming, and a new survey shows why the sudden change.
A survey of 611 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and independents found that a large number [...]
HIGH NOON IN TEXAS: WIND WON’T BACK DOWN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Here is why there aren’t wind and solar installations all across the U.S. unburdening the nation from its dependence on dirty, destructive energy: Because no good deed goes unchallenged.
Case in point: South Texas wind.
Developers can’t wait to bring Texas’ abundant wind assets onto the most greenhouse gas-prolific grid in the [...]
VIEW FROM THE PEAK (OF OIL)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A NY Times discussion of Peak Oil issues frames the story very helpfully: It’s not how much oil is left, it’s how expensive the oil left is going to be.World population will grow 50%, to 9 billion, by mid century. Cars and trucks will double in 30 years to 2+ [...]
$10 MIL FUNDS AFFORDABLE SOLAR AT MIT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Recent conversations with prominent scientists makes it clear to NewEnergyNews the pressure on research funding during the Bush administration (called by some a “war on science”) has driven U.S. science to a dark place. Only visionary private foundations have prevented the situation from becoming absolutely dire.
The Chesonis Family Foundation joined [...]
Follow the Money: 5 Firms Grabbing Big Bucks That Belong on Investors’ Radar Screens: #4 Range Fuels
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
One way to try to look into the future and get an early read on tomorrow’s winners is to “follow the money.” Which companies are attracting big bucks through deals, venture capital infusions and joint ventures? As a new industry, alternative energy is loaded with companies that will or won’t succeed. Thus a [...]
More of World’s Remaining Oil Recoverable Through Nanotech, But Oil Industry Slow to Respond – New Report
Ironically, nanotechnology is becoming central to the development of such “clean” energy technologies as solar photovoltaics. That nanotech might be used to increase the global supply of oil could be seen by environmentalists as just another way to maintain the world’s oil “addiction.” Nevertheless, according to Lux, “Nanotechnology fits oil and gas industry needs. Underground [...]
ETS Investor Alert 4-24-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
What will the generation portfolios of the world’s leading electric utilities look like 10 years from now? The model that German giant E.On wants is fully 24% renewables.
Indeed, as this story notes www.greenbang.com E.On is even establishing a new market unit called Climate and Renewables.
E.On’s other 75% will include coal, natural gas and [...]
NEW ENERGY RISING: SOLUTIONS IN THE USA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is a new spirit rising in the community of folks talking and writing about global climate change. The bipartisan TV spots placed in prime time by we can solve the climate crisis exemplify the move toward action and away from fear. A sense of opportunity is replacing the dread [...]
GREENING: FOR YOU AND YOUR WORLD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From Washington Post money mavens Glink and Tamkin: “Another year, another Earth Day. Looking back, is there anything you did in the past year to shrink your carbon footprint?…The high-level concept: Reduce what you use, reuse what you can, and then recycle the rest….”
Can’t afford it? Not necessarily true. There’s [...]
IN HONOR OF EARTH DAY, MONOPOLY GOES DIRECTLY TO NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Recognizing that New Energy is where the world is going, Hasbro will replace the Water Works and Electric Company utility squares on the Monopoly game board with wind and solar energy suppliers in the newest version of its classic board game, MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition.
The new version [...]
ETS Investor Alert 4-23-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
An Associated Press story serves as a reminder that the U.S.’s water pipelines are in a sorry state and could require a $500 billion investment over the next 10 to 20 years. ap.google.com
So while the world’s leading infrastructure firms are repairing oil and natural gas pipelines, building new power plants, constructing and repairing [...]
Follow the Money: 5 Firms Grabbing Big Bucks That Belong on Investors’ Radar Screens: #3 GreatPoint Energy
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
One way to try to look into the future and get an early read on tomorrow’s winners is to “follow the money.” Which companies are attracting big bucks through deals, venture capital infusions and joint ventures? As a new industry, alternative energy is loaded with companies that will or won’t succeed. Thus a [...]
What to Do With CO2? Call Hollywood! New Research Suggests It Might Be Used to Make CDs and DVDs
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
New research indicating that carbon dioxide emissions could become a valuable raw ingredient in the manufacture of CDs and DVDs illustrates how the gas that threatens the planet may one day soon be put to good use. It further illustrates the need for investors to try to keep up with the energy industry’s [...]
Investor Alert – Nissan Is Quietly Developing a Green Image That Could Rival Toyota’s
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Toyota’s financial performance has benefited enormously in recent years from what many call the company’s green “halo,” attributed largely to its trailblazing hybrid model, the Prius. In consumer surveys on both sides of the Atlantic, Toyota ranks in the top five of companies with a “green” public image. (See A New Reason Why [...]
ETS Investor Alert 4-22-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A new survey of corporate executives by Johnson Controls has found that while executives are feeling pressure to make their operations more energy efficient, “the percentage of companies expecting to make energy efficiency improvements, as well as their planned investment over the next year, has remained constant.” biz.yahoo.com
This isn’t all bad news. If [...]
Follow the Money: 5 Firms Grabbing Big Bucks That Belong on Investors’ Radar Screens: #2 Project Better Place
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
One way to try to look into the future and get an early read on tomorrow’s winners is to “follow the money.” Which companies are attracting big bucks through deals, venture capital infusions and joint ventures? As a new industry, alternative energy is loaded with companies that will or won’t succeed. Thus a [...]
SENATE TAKES NEW ANGLE ON NEW ENERGY INCENTIVES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Substantiating rumors previously reported bv NewEnergyNews, the Senate Finance Committee (Max Baucus, D-Mont, Chairman and Chuck Grassley, R-Ia, Ranking Member) has put forward new Tax Extenders legislation to prevent vital New Energy tax credits from expiring at the end of 2008.The New Energy incentives part of the Senate Finance Committee [...]
CALIF SOLAR POWER PLANTS GET $100 MIL FUNDING FROM IRELAND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Another announcement about a solar power plant moving toward reality in the deserts of the U.S. southwest. 1750 megawatts! And just in time for Earth Day.But this is more than just another pretty solar plant. This is something completely different.
The U.S. Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratory has been testing [...]
