Archive for May, 2008
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Increasing efficiency of a solar cell from 21.9% to 23.2% may not seem significant but it is not a 1.3% improvement, it is converting almost 6% more of the sunlight hitting the thin film into electricity.
The materials added to the thin film to achieve this improvement are not expensive. The [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-21-08
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Merrill Lynch just launched a full-service carbon offset business. www.climatebiz.com
“Our view is that the carbon market, now worth $70 billion, has demonstrated that it provides the most cost-effective approach for companies to reduce and offset their emission of greenhouse gasses,” Merrill said.
Those who want to tax carbon emissions might disagree, but what’s clear [...]
4 New Wall Street Forecasts: #3 - Global ‘Energy Storage’ Market Could Top $100 Billion Per Year vs. $20 Billion Today
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Expected growth in electrified transportation and renewable energy will drive global demand for batteries and other energy storage devices, making this a $100 billion or higher annual market compared with about $20 billion a year currently, according to a new forecast from Merriman Curhan Ford, the investment banking firm that closely analyzes “cleantech” [...]
GM’s Biofuels Partner, Coskata, Sees Huge Growth for Firm and for Advanced Biofuels (Part 1 of 2)
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Coskata Inc., the privately-held biofuel developer partnering with General Motors Corp. on cellulosic ethanol that can be made from almost any carbon source, expects to have tens of millions of gallons of its “green gasoline” ready for market by late 2010. “That’s the fastest it can be there,” Wes Bolsen, the company’s vice [...]
ALGERIA TO SEND SUN TO EUROPE
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Algeria expects EU New Energy producers will be unable to build the infrastructure to generate 20% of European electricity from New Energy sources by 2020 despite the best incentives policies in the world. Algeria is betting that when the EU sees it cannot reach its goal, it will help pay [...]
MAKING CAP-AND-TRADE FAIR
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If there is anything people can do about global climate change, it is cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GhGs). Though there are other causes of increasing GhGs in the atmosphere, the main thing people can do to cut them is stop burning Old Energy (fossil fuels).
To move away from Old Energy, [...]
TREES: THE BEST ANSWER?
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Geoengineering is the term that describes scientists’ plans to take carbon dioxide, the most abundant of the greenhouse gases, out of the atmosphere and thereby resolve global climate change. Although it is treating the symptom rather than the cause of the problem, geoengineers have proposed every sort of CO2 absorber, [...]
BOONE PICKENS’ BIG WIND
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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: [...]
BIG MONEY TO SOLAR POWER PLANT PIONEER
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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 [...]
CONNECTIVITYWEEK: SMARTGRID, GRIDWISE, DEMAND-RESPONSE AND NEW ENERGY
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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, [...]
PROJECT BETTER PLACE DEBUTS ELECTRIC CAR PROTOTYPE IN JERUSALEM
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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 [...]
FROM OIL TO WIND IN NORWAY
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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) [...]
DUPONT TO DO SOLAR IN CHINA
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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 [...]
The Air Car
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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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Wind. Power without fuel.
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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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It’ll be a COAL day in hell…
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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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4 New Wall Street Forecasts: #2 - ‘Cleaner’ Coal and Coal-to Liquid Technologies = “Massive Investment Opportunity”
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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’ [...]
Here’s Another Reason to Bet on Oil Prices Going Higher: Biofuel Output in non- OPEC Countries Isn’t Sustainable
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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 [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-20-08
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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 [...]
ETS Investor Alert 5-19-08
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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 [...]
Jeffrey Brown’s Warning On Oil Producers’ Own Rising Consumption Gains New Wall Street Backing
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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 [...]
4 New Wall Street Forecasts: #1 - Market for LEDs for Illumination Could Hit $3 B in 3-5 Yrs. vs. $600 M in ‘08
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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, [...]
WHY NUKES ARE NOT THE ANSWER FOR NEW ENERGY
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The temptations of power are many, especially nuclear power. The seduction is in how much good it can do. The technology, to some extent, is there. The electricity comes without greenhouse gas emissions. A Fall 2007 bill in California would have built new nuclear with a requirement to use 20% [...]
FOR MINNESOTA POWER: WIND BY WIRE
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Minnesota has a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) requiring the state’s utilities to obtain 25% of their power from New Energy sources by 2025. Minnesota Power, like the other of the state’s utilities, sees wind as the best way to meet that requirement. And Minnesota Power knows it will need something [...]
UTILITY WILL SPEND $100 MIL ON SOLAR
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Like so many U.S. utilities and power companies, Duke Energy is investing in New Energy. It will spend $100 million to build distributed solar generation capacity to meet peak demand stresses.
Here again a state Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) is driving the move to New Energy. North Carolina passed an RES [...]
