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If anybody understands energy, it’s T. Boone Pickens. An oilman since the 1950s, he played at every level of the oil game from land leasing and drill bit spudding to offshore exploration in the rugged North Sea and the even more brutal corporate boardroom. Here’s what Pickens likes about wind: […]

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Luz II was recognized on the occasion of Israel’s 60th birthday as one of 60 pioneering Israeli firms.
Arnold Goldman, founder, BrightSource/ founder & CEO, Israeli subsidiary Luz II: “Our technology will change the way utilities generate electricity…”
Solar power plant output is expected to grow to 6 gigawatts by 2020. With […]

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From the heart of Silicon Valley, where the concept of connectedness was nurtured into a new world community, comes ConnectivityWeek, a conference on how to make it all work faster and more efficiently.
The theme: “Empowering the Energy Revolution!”
The ConnectivityWeek brochure explains: “The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th century, […]

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Shai Agassi is not shy and his ambitious goal for Project Better Place, a $200 million undertaking, speaks anything but shyness. Agassi intends to solve all the problems of electric personal transportation and thereby make the contemporary world a better place.
Project Better Place has contracted with Nissan-Renault to make a […]

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Syllogism: (A) Norway has tremendous wind resources. (B) Norway gets only 1% of its electricity from wind. (C) Norway is: (a) anxious to aggravate global climate change and turn the country into a vacation paradise? (b) too brain-numbed by frigid weather and long winter nights to build wind turbines? (c) […]

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As news of another U.S. solar energy company heading for China follows reports of China’s dire earthquake disaster, it is instructive to remember Bank of America. The U.S.’ biggest commercial bank was born from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake when Amadeo Giannini walked through the devastated streets […]

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A car that runs on compressed air, can go from L.A. to NYC on 1 fill-up and will be for sale next year. From The Science Channel via YouTube. For Tom U.

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Great images, great tune showing a great future that will work. From the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) via YouTube.

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Nobody ever accused the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) of being unclear about where they stand. Here they offer an opinion on coal. From RAN via YouTube.

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Although it’s the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, coal will remain a key fuel for generating electricity, thus a “massive investment opportunity” exists as new technology is developed and employed to make coal-fired power plants run cleaner, and as coal starts to be used to make liquid fuels in support of nations’ […]

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Last Thursday noted oilman Boone Pickens told an American cable TV show that rising oil prices are not the result of speculation but rather the delicate balance that exists between demand and available supply. He said that when you have 87 million barrels of global demand and only 85 million barrels of available […]

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China has a new government subsidy program that it hopes will ratchet up the number of energy-efficient light bulbs the country uses. www.planetark.com
Plans are for 50 million incandescent bulbs to be replaced in just the first stage of the plan.
“This is the first time China has used financial subsidies to support such wide […]

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No lithium-ion battery developer has more buzz than privately-held A123 Systems. A lot of investors are looking forward to the day A123 goes public.
While nobody knows for sure when that will be, according to this recent blog item innoeco.com the date could be this September.
The same blog item puts the expected value of […]

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Texas-based independent petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown has been warning the world for a while now that rapidly rising domestic consumption in oil-producing countries is limiting the amount of oil they have to export to the United States, China and other big oil-consuming nations.
EnergyTechStocks.com first wrote about Brown last summer. (See Prediction #1 (of […]

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The market for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for illumination has the potential to hit $3 billion over the next three to five years, compared with an estimated $600 million in 2008, according to Merriman Curhan Ford, an investment banking firm that heavily researches “clean” energy technologies. In one of a series of new reports, […]

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