Archive for July, 2008
« Previous EntriesSOUTH DAKOTA GETS IN THE WIND GAME IN A HUMONGOUS WAY!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
South Dakota is about to become host to the biggest wind farm ANYWHERE. This is the kind of humongous news the wind energy industry has been awaiting expectantly for some time.
As T. Boone Pickens has been so vigorously pointing out this summer (see Saturday Video: The Problem and the Pickens [...]
UTILITIES VS. INSTALLERS IN THE SOLAR WORLD?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
California’s dynamic solar energy market has separated into 3 segments: The distributed home solar system “retail” market, the utility- and big-money dominated solar power plant “wholesale” market and the “’tweeners,” distributed but larger-scale systems for commercial-sized buildings.
Utility giant Southern California Edison (SCE), a solar industry leader, wants to own and [...]
ARMY CUTTING CARBON ‘BOOTPRINT’
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The U.S. Army wants to be more “sustainable.” Is this a new recruiting strategy? Well, there was no point in “going green.”The truth: Turns out the Army thinks efficiency is more than just (as Vice President Cheney once condescendingly dubbed it) a sign of “personal virtue.” The Army has come [...]
ETS Investor Alert 7-31-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
More evidence that the “happy days are here again” talk on Wall Street won’t last.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), oil production in non-OPEC countries is set to peak within the next two years. business.timesonline.co.uk
Since non-OPEC production is 60% of global production, well, you get the drift.
Until tomorrow.
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Don’t Be Surprised If US Gas Prices Go as Low as $2.88 a Gallon, Only To Set New Record Next Summer
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Have U.S. gasoline prices peaked for 2008? Maybe. Will they go even higher next year? Almost definitely.
Every year since 2003, over a period lasting about two to three months, gas prices in the U.S. have fallen anywhere from about 10% to 30% from their summertime highs, as demand slackened with the changing of [...]
Meet 8 Contenders (4 Public, 4 Private Firms) 3rd Two: Ormat Technologies & LS9
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In search of that one investment that will make you filthy rich? EnergyTechStocks doesn’t have a crystal ball. But it spends a lot of time studying how the biggest industry in the world - energy - is undergoing profound changes that will make this planet very different within 5 to 10 years. We [...]
SPECULATION LEGISLATION & INCENTIVES OR NOT, THE SMART MONEY IS ON NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The price of oil is finally dropping. Could the threat of action against speculators have moved them out of the futures market?
A deadlocked Congress now teeters on the brink of a deal. Legislators may vote to do something about speculation and to extend the vital New Energy incentives or may [...]
WIND + WAVES IN GULF OF MEXICO
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Two New Energy companies with an interest in developing the Gulf of Mexico’s wealth of resources are pooling their talents in an incredibly exciting venture.
Hydro Green Energy LLC of Houston, TX, describes its technology as “hydrokinetic power systems.” Call it what they will, it is the harvesting of wave energy. [...]
ANOTHER SOLAR POWER PLANT FOR ARIZONA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A few names are emerging at the forefront of the solar power plant development explosion in the U.S. southwest. Among those there is no more prominent a name, in fact no finer a pedigree, than that of Luz.
BrightSource Energy, a Silicon Valley-based firm, owns Luz, an Israeli company. It purchased [...]
ETS Investor Alert 7-30-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Environmentalists get ready to choke.
A new report concludes that the world’s coal-fired electrical generation capacity will rise by 60% between now and 2020. www.poweronline.com.
No indication how much of that new capacity will have modern emissions-control equipment, but you can guess.
Until tomorrow.
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Who’s The Next Google? Meet 8 Contenders (4 Public, 4 Private Firms) 2nd Two: Composite Tech. & A123
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In search of that one investment that will make you filthy rich? EnergyTechStocks doesn’t have a crystal ball. But it spends a lot of time studying how the biggest industry in the world - energy - is undergoing profound changes that will make this planet very different within 5 to 10 years. We [...]
From Scourge to Solution? Utilities Study Using CO2 From Coal-Fired Power Plants to Grow Algae (Pt. 2 of 2)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Everyone knows that coal-fired power plants emit carbon dioxide, a key contributor to global warming. But according to Thomas Byrne of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), the very plants that are poisoning the atmosphere may be put to work saving it. Byrne told EnergyTechStocks that electric utilities are working on projects that would [...]
‘CLEAN’ COAL TRIAL PROCEEDING APACE, RESULTS DUE IN 10 YEARS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This slightly dated but highly relevant May 15 news item just came to the attention of NewEnergyNews.
Almost 3 months old and only slightly dated? Well, it’s about scientific research on “clean” coal and not expected to produce final conclusions for 10 years, so there didn’t seem to be any hurry [...]
FRENCH NUKE LEAKS: HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Whenever the nuclear industry wants to trumpet its safety and practicality, it always points to France. The industry can’t repeat often enough how France gets 80% of its energy from nuclear power and has never suffered from the potential dangers.Yeah, well, here’s the thing: When an industry’s motto is, “What [...]
DEM COVENTION OFFSETS: MISUNDERSTOOD ANSWER TO CLIMATE QUESTION
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The 5000 delegates to the Democratic National Convention have been asked to spend $7.50 each to offset their greenhouse gas emissions (GhGs). When delegates to a national presidential convention are asked to consider “offsetting” their GhGs, it is time to think about “offsets.”The idea is controversial and easily satirized.
Susan Innis, [...]
IMPASSE? MARKETS ACT ON NEW ENERGY, WHY CAN’T CONGRESS?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Article after article like The Next Generation of Alternative Energy…(July 25, U.S. News & World Report) highlights the growing rush of venture capital funding to New Energy.
Solar power plant technology, algae-to-liquid fuel technology and ocean energy electricity-generation technology are the “fav raves” that a recent report from Cleantech Group described [...]
TOP TEN UTILITIES FOR SOLAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Utilities have become the driving force behind the installation of solar energy systems in the U.S. But there is a driving force behind them.
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) released the results of a market survey and research, a ranking of utilities for their use of solar energy to generate [...]
LONDON ARRAY, WORLD’S BIGGEST OFFSHORE WIND, GETS FUNDING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Many observers heralded Royal Dutch Shell’s May withdrawal of its share of the financing for the London Array, the world’s biggest offshore wind installation, as the beginning of the end for Britain’s offshore wind ambitions. NewEnergyNews immediately predicted other financing would be found and the project would go forward. (See [...]
ETS Investor Alert 7-29-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
You would think that the government of India, a country facing very, very serious energy challenges, would do whatever it could to help solve those problems.
Forget it. Honda just introduced India to the first hybrid electric motor vehicle. But because the vehicle will carry an incredibly high import duty slapped on by the [...]
Who’s The Next Google? Meet 8 Contenders (4 Public, 4 Private Firms) 1st Two: Energy Recovery & Konarka
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In search of that one investment that will make you filthy rich? EnergyTechStocks doesn’t have a crystal ball. But it spends a lot of time studying how the biggest industry in the world – energy – is undergoing profound changes that will make this planet very different within 5 to 10 years. We [...]
Will Pond Scum Save Airlines? Ass’n Exec Says Carriers’ Studies Show Algae ‘Strong’ Fuel Candidate (Pt. 1 of 2)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
They aren’t talking publicly about it for competitive reasons, but commercial airlines’ internal analyses have determined that algae is a “strong candidate” to displace jet fuel.
That’s according to Thomas Byrne of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), a not-for-profit group dedicated to developing commercial markets for microalgae biomass, the kind observable only with a [...]
HIGH WINDS IN CHINA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Numbers from China are always impressive. Reports of new coal plant construction and burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions are mind boggling. Numbers for New Energy building in China, especially wind energy installation, are also impressive.Steve Sawyer, secretary general, Global Wind Energy Council: “China’s wind energy market is unrecognisable from two years [...]
LIGHTING UP EUROPE FROM NORTH AFRICA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The more the EU looks at this idea, the more acceptance it finds.A recent presentation again touted the building of enough solar power plants in the North African and Middle Eastern deserts to power the EU and the building of a high voltage direct current (HVDC) supergrid to deliver it. [...]
RUSSIA AND CONGO MOVE TO BIOFUELS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The exertion of force being a bit more flagrant in Russia than in the West, it is hard to know whether Russians are not yet aware of the bad news about AGROfuels or whether those backing the play just don’t care. (See AGROFUELS BAD NEWS: OXFAM)
In either case, entrepreneur Pyotr [...]
The Colbert Report: Environmental Lobbyists
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Stephen Colbert interviews Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, leader of “the fightin’ treehuggers.” Hilarious, as usual. From Comedy Central.
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