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A bipartisan group of elder statesmen, led by Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, James Schlesinger and Colin Powell, have submitted An Open Letter On America’s Energy Future to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress calling for prompt and decisive action to head off an impending energy crisis and urging […]

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Like T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) saw an opportunity to drive a point home. By announcing the achievement of 1,000,000 megawatt-hours of power production from a pair of its wind energy facilities, PSE created some media excitement and called attention to what wind energy is […]

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Wall Street Journal columnist Gwendolyn Bounds shared a personal account of her discoveries and disappointments investigating the installation of a solar system for her home.
Why was she interested?
“Like many Americans swooning from higher heating and cooling costs I’m in the camp of “something’s got to change.” On one hand, I’ve […]

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Pointing out the threats costly energy and energy shortages represent to Indian business (“India Inc”), G. Chandrashekar offered his India readers a view into the advanced state of the solar energy industry in Europe and made the case for the feasibility of developing an Indian solar energy industry.
The very impressive […]

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A new poll proves the truth of the frequently repeated mantra from cap-and-trade system advocates that a carbon tax might be a better tool to curb the greenhouse gas emissions (GhGs) that cause global climate change but it is politically almost impossible to sell.
A recent poll of British Columbians finds […]

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Reports from Kenya and France highlight continued conflict over biofuels. Nations are left with a pair of bad choices: Get in on the emerging AGROfuel economy and accept its extensive downside or let the parade pass by in the hope that the promise of next-generation biofuels is worth the wait […]

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Gore: “Here’s what’s changed…” It’s been a long time since anybody accused a U.S. political leader of being TOO AMBITIOUS about New Energy but that’s what Al is being in this speech. It’s called leadership and it’s not surprising so few people recognize it. Political leaders with it are an […]

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Anybody who knows NewEnergyNews realizes this song had to turn up sooner or later. (Note that the performance is dedicated to all the people in Hibbing, Minnesota. For the uninitiated, Hibbing is Dylan’s home town. NewEnergyNews dedicates the post to Al Gore: How many roads this man has walked down… […]

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Micro-finance building off-grid solar: This video is a little long but it’s a vivid look at a beautiful land and a resilient people. Nobody knows what a treasure and gift electricity is like someone who never had it and gets it for the first time: “We have come to the […]

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In case you were wondering where the world’s oil is going to go if the U.S. economy keeps sinking . . . .
China’s June auto sales continued strong, up 15.24% over year-earlier numbers. www.reuters.com
Good news for China, bad news for the world, which now has more than half a million new “mouths” to […]

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As high oil prices ground airline flights, teleconference service providers are taking off.
NASDAQ-traded Polycom Inc. is in a state of “hypergrowth,” its vice president of marketing told a trade publication last week. Cisco Systems told the same publication that teleconferencing systems are its fastest-growing product and that they have saved Cisco itself $150 […]

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As if the oil price shock that has thrown the world into turmoil isn’t bad enough, there’s reason to believe at least four more commodity price shocks may be headed straight for investors’ portfolios.
First up: coal, the commodity whose supply-demand fundamentals “may be stronger than oil fundamentals,” according to a new report from […]

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