Archive for May, 2008
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John Moore, president and CEO of Acorn Energy Inc. in Montchanin, DE, sees nothing but trouble ahead for the U.S. electric power industry. Not only does he see power prices possibly doubling within five years. He also anticipates the nation’s utility grid to become a “much more profound crisis” than it is today, [...]
How Execs at 30 Top Cleantech Firms Expect to Make Lots of $$ (Part 1 of 7) Electric Cars = the Next Mass Market Technology
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Electrified transportation is the next mass market technology. The automotive industry will be turned completely upside down, with many of today’s small, unknown electric vehicle developers becoming the new global giants of car-making. Electric utilities are the oil companies of tomorrow. The new lithium-ion batteries that are the foundation of this new mass [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-26-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
First came the home mortgage mess. Now it’s the big car mess.
As this Associated Press story notes, ap.google.com owners of SUVs are discovering that the trade-in value of their gas guzzlers is plummeting.
This can only add to the already high level of consumer anxiety.
Until tomorrow.
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New Forecast from Raymond James: Natural Gas Prices ‘Very Likely Going Lower’ Within 6-12 Months
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Oil prices may be going up, but natural gas prices are “very likely going lower . . . sometime in the next six to 12 months,” according to a new forecast from Raymond James & Associates, the investment banking firm.
According to the firm’s Houston-based energy analysts, rising production from U.S. onshore natural gas [...]
UK’s Green Biologics Eyes $2 Trillion Chemicals Biz; Sees Biotech Capturing 70% of Market by 2050
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A lot has been written about the potential for microorganisms – bugs – to create second generation biofuel, so-called cellulosic biofuel made from wood and agricultural waste and ordinary garbage.
But the new CEO of Britain’s privately-held Green Biologics has a different game plan for his bugs. Whether or not he succeeds, Sean Sutcliffe’s [...]
CANADA’S CARBON TAX: SUICIDE? GOOD SENSE? A DREAM?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In his effort to unseat Canada’s Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephan Harper, Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion has proposed Canada take the bold step of instituting a carbon tax to meet its global climate change responsibilities. According to voices from around the political left, right and center, the idea is [...]
“CLEAN” COAL NOT READY - SWEDISH STUDY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
IF. The biggest little word in the English language. IF “clean” coal was actually clean and IF carbon-capture-and-sequestration (CCS) works on a large scale at affordable prices and IF somebody figured out a way to safely store nuclear waste and IF the cost and complexities of making hydrogen fuel from [...]
SUGAR CANE ETHANOL IN BRAZIL: ‘AN IRREVERSIBLE TREND’
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Brazil and the U.S. are the world leaders in ethanol production. Both use food crops to make ethanol. Brazil’s dependence is on sugar cane. The U.S. uses corn.
Both U.S. and Brazilian ethanol industries have been under attack recently for the impact ethanol production has had on food prices and for [...]
Smart Cities
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
How intelligent buildings and the developing Smart Grid can resolve the energy crunch and impact global climate change. From Echelon via GreenEnergyTV.
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How To Get 100 Miles Per Gallon +
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Watch carefully or you’ll miss it. From YouTube.
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Texas Wind Revives Texas Town
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It means a lot more than energy to struggling rural communities like Roscoe, Texas, where even the local Dairy Queen had pulled out. It means opportunity. From NPR via YouTube.
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HOUSE DEMS PRESS GOP SENATORS ON NEW ENERGY INCENTIVES
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In a move obviously designed to force a choice on the recalcitrant Republican minority in the Senate that continues to block extension of the incentives New Energy needs to sustain its unprecedented growth, the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives once again pushed through a New Energy incentives package.
The [...]
IBERDROLA UPS NEW ENERGY STAKES - $8 BIL!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From Iberdrola’s announcement of their intentions to spend $8 billion on New Energy in the U.S.: “[Corporate chairman] Galán stressed that the commitment of IBERDROLA to the development of renewable energies in the U.S. requires an improvement of the regulatory framework, which must be predictable, sufficient and provide stability…”
Pretty blunt. [...]
FENWAY TRADITION MEETS SOLAR INNOVATION
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Baseball, once identified absolutely with sunshine and green grass, is now a game played largely under artificial lights and too often on artificial turf. Nowhere, however, is baseball’s sense of tradition more alive and well than Boston’s Fenway Park.
As the park’s resident Red Sox return to a year-by-year league dominance [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-23-08
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Japan’s new policy is to halve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 through new technologies. www.enn.com
The company reportedly has identified 21 such technologies, including clean coal, solar, wind and hydrogen-based steelmaking.
Further evidence that, even if the price of oil should miraculously come down, the push for new energy technology won’t let up.
Until [...]
Bush Moves Ever Closer to Uttering the Words ‘Peak Oil’ – When He Finally Does, Biofuel, Plug-in Firms Rocket Higher
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Last December EnergyTechStocks.com forecast that 2008 would be a battle between peak oil believers vs. deniers. (See Investors Should Expect to be Buffeted by Oil Price Uncertainty). When Goldman Sachs issued its $200 oil prediction last month, arguing that demand growth would continue to outpace available supply, the believers took control of the [...]
Germany’s Continental AG a Force to be Reckoned with as Automakers Rush to Put Hybrids into Showrooms
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As automakers respond to rising gasoline prices by rushing to turn out gas-electric hybrid models, companies developing lithium-ion batteries that can store more energy are attracting a lot of investor attention. Receiving far less attention are companies that build the packs and the associated power electronics, in particular, Germany’s Continental AG, which looks [...]
HOW & WHY GM & THE EV SPLIT AND GOT BACK TOGETHER
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In the 1890s, Henry Ford believed so intensely in the future of the internal combustion engine he built a prototype in his garage to get funding to start his auto company. He didn’t have market studies, he had commitment. It worked out. There was probably somebody around at the same [...]
CONNECTIVITYWEEK, DAY 2: DEMAND RESPONSE AND THE ELECTRON CONSUMER
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Energy producers see energy as natural forces and natural resources. The utilities that deliver the energy see it as flowing electrons. The average electricity customer’s attitude is “Just keep the lights and the TV on and the food fresh in the refrigerator.”At ConnectivityWeek, some bright, visionary folks are talking about [...]
WILDLIFE SOCIETY ON WIND
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The Wildlife Society statement on wind energy is an even-handed assessment. It recognizes the value and importance of wind energy and also recognizes there are factors that could bring the wind energy industry into conflict with animal rights’ activists.
Like nature itself, this is a matter of delicate balance. Objections to [...]
Coskata Sees its ‘Green’ Gasoline as Disruptive Tech – If True, Investors Have Lots To Think About (Part 2 of 2)
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Coskata Inc.’s patented process for making ethanol inexpensively from almost any source of carbon is a “truly disruptive technology” that could cause fundamental economic changes, Wes Bolsen, the company’s vice president for business development, said in an interview.
If time proves Bolsen correct, it is likely investors will need to respond across the full [...]
4 New Wall Street Forecasts: #4 - ‘Dramatic’ Tech Gains to Drive ‘Exponential Growth’ in Utility-Scale Solar Power
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As the economic and environmental costs of traditional power generation rapidly increase, and as so-called concentrated solar power (CSP) technology “dramatically” improves, a CSP-dominant utility-scale solar power industry will emerge in the coming years, according to Merriman Curhan Ford, the investment banking firm.
CSP is technology that uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight in order [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-22-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Several of America’s biggest mutual fund companies face increased pressure to take action on climate change. www.coopamerica.org
Co-op America, a well-known nonprofit group, says it’s going after Fidelity, ING, Morgan Stanley, Vanguard and others.
Just another sign that investment choices likely will be increasingly about a company’s policy toward dealing with its carbon emissions.
Until tomorrow.
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WORLD’S BIGGEST OFFSHORE WIND TO UK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Rising steel and copper prices and wind turbine supply chain congestion are apparently not as much of a concern to Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), the huge UK utility, as they are to Royal Dutch Shell.
Royal Dutch Shell last weeked backed out of its partnership with E.ON, the German utility, [...]
CONNECTIVITYWEEK, DAY 1: SMARTGRID
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The exclusive and ambitious group of folks gathered for ConnectivityWeek are designing new R2-D2s and C-3POs to allow consumers to resolve the energy crisis and mitigate global climate change for themselves.Right now, electrical power is coming from The Borg (or maybe the Cylons).To most, electric power is a force coming [...]
