Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Peak oil fanatics are now officially peak oil theorists. The world is about to go through the looking glass.
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, IEA: “We are entering a new world energy order…The oil investments required may be much, much higher than what people assume…”
Analyses of world oil have always focused on […]

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An essay from Canada highlights the role of daring investors in the growth of the solar energy industry.Venture Capitalist (VC) John Walton took a risk on First Solar, a start-up company in 1999 with a plan to make something cutting edge called solar thin film. Walton dropped a quarter of […]

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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
South Africa has been struggling with energy shortages and periodic outages for months (see S. AFRICA, FACING SHORTS, TO TRY NEW ENERGY) and the country has been studying the development of many kinds of New Energy. That it’s first wind installation went online May 23 demonstrates one of wind energy’s […]

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Solar power is all about the sun, right? Wrong. With next-generation solar technology, you won’t need the sun, only indoor lighting, to generate electricity, according to Rick Hess, CEO of privately-held Konarka Technologies in Lowell, MA, a company that builds polymer photovoltaic products, a material that converts light to energy.
Think of it as […]

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It was toward the end of a day-long investor conference two weeks ago that John Heathcote, CEO of Britain’s Pursuit Dynamics PLC, said something that made at least one audience member ask himself, “Did I really hear what I just heard?”
When Heathcote and other CEOs on a biofuels panel were finished, the audience […]

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Another important step in the U.S.’s creation of a carbon trading market has been taken not by the federal or any state government but by a local air quality improvement district in California.
As this story notes www.enn.com the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has approved the first fees on businesses that emit […]

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