Archive for July, 2008
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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Now for something a little more serious: A great close-up look at a Spanish solar power plant. A stunning architectural achievement, utterly functional yet visually striking. BTW – 400 degrees centigrade is over 750 degrees Fahrenheit. From Australian TV via YouTube.
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Energy: Let’s Save It (Energie: Chasse Au Gaspi)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This is witty. Too witty for a cartoon? Be the judge. Better yet – ask the kids. From Laughstories via YouTube.
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Investor Alert 7-28-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A clue to the potential revival of the U.S. commercial nuclear power industry can be found here. www.eere.energy.gov
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission anticipates receiving 34 applications for nuclear power plants by 2010.
As the story notes, the first licenses won’t be issued until 2011 at the earliest.
Until tomorrow.
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Is Congress on Verge of Extending Renewable Energy Tax Breaks? Our Washington Insider Says Watch Oil Prices
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With the head of the American Wind Energy Association warning that Congress’s repeated failure to extend tax breaks for renewable energy production places at risk more than $11.5 billion in investment, green investors need to know whether last week’s flurry of action in Washington means that the Congressional logjam is about to be [...]
Prediction: 1 Candidate Will Pledge to Lower Gas to $1 a Gallon & Will Win White House (It’s Doable with PHEVs)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With energy polling as the top campaign issue, imagine how much mileage a presidential candidate could get by promising that by the end of his first term in office, millions of Americans will be paying only $1 for a gallon of gasoline.
EnergyTechStocks.com doesn’t know which one it will be, but the prediction here [...]
Electric Utility Analyst Scotto on U.S.’s ‘Other’ Energy Crisis: (Parts 1 & 2)
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Northeast At Greatest Risk Of Massive Blackout (Part 1 of 4)
U.S. Power Rates to Double Over Next 5 Years Due Primarily To Lack of Supply (Part 2 of 4)
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When’s Your Car Company Going Electric?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
• Click for ETS Related Archived Articles
Click company below for link to latest news
• BMW/Mini - Being Tested
• Chrysler - 2011 - 2013
• Daimler - 2010
• Fisker Automotive - Late 2009
• Ford - Between 2012 and 2020
• General Motors - 2010
• Honda - Favors Fuel Cells
• Hyundai - 2009-2011
• Mazda - Early 2010s
• [...]
ETS – Related Electric Car Archived Stories
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
How Execs at 30 Top Cleantech Firms Expect to Make Lots of $$ (Part 1 of 7) Electric Cars = the Next Mass Market Technology
Investor Alert – Forget 2012. The Electric Vehicle Revolution Will Reach the United States in 2009
4 Experts on Why World Teeters on Brink of Energy Crisis - #2: Ex-CIA [...]
GOLD RUSH FOR WIND IN UPSTATE NY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Scandal and corruption in small town politics? Shocking! What’s next – pigs that roll in muck?
The huge “gold rush” to build wind energy in upstate NY has resulted in development expected to reach 1000 megawatts by the end of 2008. It has also resulted in allegations against public officials for [...]
POWER COMPANY IN FIRST THIN FILM POWER PLANT BUILD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
First Solar is the biggest success story in the solar industry. In 2007, its stock value grew 795%. It specializes in the cadmium telluride thin-film formula, is run by solar industry-savvy corporate officers and cannot expand its production capacity fast enough to meet demand.
Sempra Energy, a California power company, has [...]
WAVE ENERGY NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE WEST
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Bush administration agencies have not failed to act on environmental and energy matters. They have simply worked slowly. The pace of action can be as impactful as the choice of actions.
Recent Senate hearings revealed that the The White House carefully monitored EPA action on greenhouse gas emissions, allowing it to [...]
Bosch And Valeo Both Look Like Winners In Installing Fuel-Saving Stop-Start Tech in Cars
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In the race to install fuel-saving stop-start technology in motor vehicles, it’s shaping up as a battle between Germany’s Bosch and France’s Valeo. Or is it? Both companies have the air of a winner as more European automakers look to stop-start technology to make their vehicles more fuel efficient and cleaner running.
Investors won’t [...]
2 Speculative Stock Plays From Canada That Might Interest Investors – Thermal Energy Int’l & Railpower
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Energy efficiency is coming in all shapes and sizes, from plug-in electric cars that all-but-eliminate gasoline to light emitting diode (LED) lights that use a fraction of the electricity used by incandescent bulbs. At this point, however, some companies that possibly could turn out to be winners are still purely speculative plays, and [...]
ETS Investor Alert 7-25-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reportedly have developed an inexpensive new way to turn ordinary windows into solar collectors. www.cbsnews.com
The glass is coated to absorb light that is channeled to a collector around the edge of the window.
Researchers believe the new technology could be commercially available within three years.
Until Monday.
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REPORT: BIG ACTION IN CONCENTRATING SOLAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Solar power plant capacity is expected to double every 16 months over the next five years and reach 6,400 megawatts by 2012.
Solar power plants typically use one of the several concentrating solar photovoltaic (CSP) technologies although there are some very large photovoltaic (PV) arrays that generate on the power plant [...]
THE GORE PLAN, THE PICKENS PLAN AND THE HEARTLAND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The widely heralded calls from Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens for more New Energy keep echoing through the canyons of popular attention.Kansas, a state right in the middle of the Midwestern wind corridor Pickens describes in his presentations as “the Saudi Arabia of wind,” is buzzing. Under the bold [...]
FIGHTING FOR SUN, FIGHTING COAL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) seems out of place. Charged with wrangling the thundering herd of Senate Democrats in its contentions against a Republican minority uninhibited about using its debate crushing filibuster power, his mild-mannered ways haven’t effected legislative accomplishment.
And the Drudge Report recently turned Senator Reid notorious when [...]
4 Commodities Ready To Shock Investors – #4: Demand Surging, Supply Uncertain for Cobalt
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
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.
Last up: cobalt, a commodity that attracts surprisingly little media attention, given how uncertain its supply is in the face [...]
Electricity Expert Scotto: U.S. Power Rates to Double Over Next 5 Years Due Primarily To Lack of Supply (Part 2 of 4)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Leading Wall Street electric utility analyst Dan Scotto predicted U.S. electric rates will double within five years due primarily to lack of supply. The increase will be on top of a 25% rate rise Americans have had to endure over the last few years, he said.
In Part 2 of his exclusive four-part interview [...]
ETS Investor Alert 7-24-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
General Electric and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have combined to test and market a new super efficient electric heat water pump water heater. The GE Hybrid Water Heater reportedly is 50% more energy efficient than a standard 50 gallon electric water heater. www.ornl.gov
Since approximately 4.5 million electric storage water [...]
U.S. TAKES WORLD LEAD IN WIND PRODUCTION
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In a widely publicized appearance before Senator Joseph Lieberman’s Senate Hmeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee July 22, T. Boone Pickens again touted wind energy’s potential and railed against the $700 billion dollars the U.S. spends to import liquid fuel.
In case anybody reading this has just recovered from 2 weeks [...]
LIZA DELIVERS!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
She did it!AP Reporter: “Fourteen-year-old Liza Stoner looked none the weaker today following a monthlong bike ride from Minneapolis to Washington, energized by her cause: to promote more environmentally-friendly electric vehicles.”
In her Ride For Renewal, Liza Stoner took a petition signed by 1200+ EV advocates to the nation’s capitol. Her [...]
GEOTHERMAL OVERLOOKED?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A U.S. News & World Report writer took a closer look at geothermal energy, a rich New Energy resource.
If geothermal energy does not get the same recognition as sun and wind and wave, there is one simple reason: Its potential productivity has been considered limited.
Wind presently provides 1% to 2% [...]
Merrill Lynch’s North American Economist Warns ‘Brutal Winter Coming for Utility Bills’
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Merrill Lynch’s North American economist, David A. Rosenberg, issued a warning Monday that a “brutal winter (is) coming for utility bills.”
Rosenberg wrote in his Morning Market Memo, “Last winter, the average price of natural gas on the NYMEX was $7.71 per btu – it is now $13, a 67% jump. And about half [...]
4 Commodities Ready To Shock Investors – #3: A War In Africa May Cause Phosphate Price Shock
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
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.
Next up: phosphate, a critical component in fertilizer, which based on an analysis that appeared last week on the web [...]
