Archive for August, 2008
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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The National Science Foundation’s grant to the U.S. Air Force Academy for the study of devices that generate wave, tide and current energies has a double-edged implication.
On the one hand, it gives further legitimacy to a kind of New Energy that still lags behind wind and sun in its commercial [...]
Raymond James Alternative Energy Analyst Molchanov (Pt. 1 of 2) – Why Solar Stocks May Soon Be ‘Off to the Races’
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It’s been a bad year so far for solar company stocks but “We’re off to the races” if two things happen by the end of 2008, Pavel Molchanov, alternative energy analyst for investment bankers Raymond James & Associates, told EnergyTechStocks.com.
Molchanov said he’s optimistic about one, uncertain about the other. He [...]
Juhl Wind Sees ’09 Profit of Up To $1 Million; Newly-Public Firm Has ‘A Lot of Growth Potential,’ Its President Says
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Juhl Wind Inc. expects full-year profit in 2009 between about $700,000 and $1 million on revenue of at least $8.9 million, John Mitola, president of this self-described leader in “community wind power,” told EnergyTechStocks.com.
Woodstock, Minn.-based Juhl began trading as a public company on June 25. Of its approximately 25 million [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-25-08
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It only took them a week, but oil traders have finally awakened to the enormous political risk represented by Russia’s incursion into neighboring Georgia. biz.yahoo.com
That oil prices didn’t immediately jump when Russia pushed its tanks up against the oil pipeline in Georgia that is absolutely vital to the West not [...]
THE FIGHT AGAINST NEW COAL, IN THE UK AND AROUND THE WORLD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is a war against coal going on and the good guys have the coal industry in retreat though the mainstream media has kept the war a pretty off-the-record affair.
Take for example this reported Al Gore 2007 remark: “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers [...]
CHINA MOVES UP IN THE NEW ENERGY WORLD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Global finance powerhouse Ernst & Young released a new ranking of the best countries in the world in which to invest in New Energy. The most noticeable change was China’s move up the list and the UK’s move down. Both changes are directly associated with policies set by those nations’ [...]
INDIA, GERMAN FIRMS TO BUY SOLAR FROM ATLANTA & ATLANTA BUYS FROM NORWAY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A solar module manufacturer from India signed an agreement to buy parts from a U.S. company. A solar module manufacturer from Germany signed an agreement to buy parts from the same U.S. company. The U.S. company signed an agreement to buy parts from a company in Norway.
The deals should help [...]
INDIA, GERMAN FIRMS TO BUY SOLAR FROM ATLANTA & ATLANTA BUYS FROM NORWAY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A solar module manufacturer from India signed an agreement to buy parts from a U.S. company. A solar module manufacturer from Germany signed an agreement to buy parts from the same U.S. company. The U.S. company signed an agreement to buy parts from a company in Norway.
The deals should help [...]
More Drilling Is The Answer?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
“High gas prices? Drill more! Prices still high? Try drilling in a wildlife preserve! … Romance trouble? Forget those little blue pills – it’s drill, drill, drill! … It’s the oil American way.” From NRDCflix via YouTube.
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MIT Solar Storage Breakthrough Explained
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This MIT technical breakthrough was overhyped. A Cal Tech expert on the subject recently confided the most important things about the work to NewEnergyNews: It was done (1) using an “earth-abundant” (affordable, plentiful) material as a catalyst, (2) at room temperature and (3) in neutral (non-acidic) water.
It is far from [...]
Some Energy Blues
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Great lyrics, great groove, cute images. “If everyone tries a bit harder/Our fuel will go farther and farther…” From RussBusby via YouTube.
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SPECULATORS CONTROLLED 81% OF OIL FUTURES MARKET!
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
An investigation of the oil futures commodity market found that a few big players at one point controlled over 80% of the oil futures market.
The biggest single piece of information verifying the general trend of speculation in oil futures and how it impacted prices was uncovered, in a superb piece [...]
BLACKOUT PLUS 5 YEARS: BETTER GRID, NEW VISION
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
5 years ago, August 14, 2003, the lights went out in much of the northeast quadrant of North America.
Why? Some FirstEnergy transmission lines in Ohio came too close to trees and automatically shut down. The lines’ electricity was rerouted to lines that overloaded and went out. A FirstEnergy computer glitch [...]
VENTURE GROUP PICKS ALGAE STARTUP: THE RACE GOES ON
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Venture investment in New Energy is almost the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak investments picture right now, as reported in NEW ENERGY VENTURE INVESTMENT HITS NEW HIGH July 17.
An Ernst & Young report reiterated the trend identified in the earlier Cleantech Group study, showing that VC bets on [...]
Raymond James Warns Any ‘Meaningful’ Oil Disruptions Will Cause ‘Significantly Higher’ Prices (Pt. 2 of 2)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
“The world now has a precariously balanced oil market that cannot withstand any meaningful oil supply disruptions without significantly higher oil price implications,” warns a new report from Raymond James & Associates, the investment banking firm.
This precarious balance is due to both geopolitical factors and a lack of oil supply growth in non-OPEC [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-22-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
By 2020 every car sold will be some sort of hybrid vehicle, according to a study by the IBM Institute for Business Value. www.greencarcongress.com
For investors, that could mean opportunities to make money in dozens, if not hundreds, of companies that will supply these new technologies, especially batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Until Monday.
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Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant (Pt. 4 of 4) - Healthcare Water Firms Cantel Medical, Pall Corp
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil D. Berlant doesn’t like to recommend specific companies that he thinks will do well in the coming era of rapidly-rising water costs. But during a nearly three-hour interview with EnergyTechStocks.com, Berlant, who manages the PFW Water Fund (Symbol: PFWAX), came close, agreeing to name companies he sees [...]
NEW ENERGY TO POWER THE BIG APPLE
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Once again, New Energy defies party lines to impose its inescapable logic. Independent NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented an aggressive menu of New Energy options for the city and condemned political leaders to his left and right for not dealing with the energy issue.
No city needs electricity like New York [...]
DIGGING UP A SOLUTION: GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Geothermal heat pumps are to geothermal energy what solar panels are to solar power plants.
Heat pumps tap the oldest insulation there is, the insulating power of the earth.
The earliest humans did not simply go to caves for shelter, they went to DEEP caves. Why? Because below the earth it is [...]
CARBON FARMING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The fight against global climate change may turn out to be a very good fight for the U.S. farmer.
Credits earned for agro practices that sequester GhGs in the soil instead of releasing them into the atmosphere have sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE) for $2.50 to $7 a metric [...]
Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant (Pt. 3 of 4) - Check Out Desalination Firms Energy Recovery, Consol. Water
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil D. Berlant doesn’t like to recommend specific companies that he thinks will do well in the coming era of rapidly-rising water costs. But during a nearly three-hour interview with EnergyTechStocks.com, Berlant, who manages the PFW Water Fund (Symbol: PFWAX), came close, agreeing to name companies he sees [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-21-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Carbon sequestration, seen by many as the salvation for burning coal to generate electricity, may result in increased levels of other kinds of pollution, a new study warns. www.sciencenews.org
The new study finds that carbon sequestration may make worse power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and more.
Until tomorrow.
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SOLAR BEST BUYS (AND WIND) – CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Like any good salesman, a hustler at TheStreet.com promises to provide “all you need to know” to invest in solar. In fact, what’s there is a smattering of undernoticed and overnoticed investment vehicles ranging from First Solar, everybody’s favorite solar energy stock, to a hot new exchange traded fund (ETF) [...]
TURNING AROUND THE CORN ETHANOL BANDWAGON
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Not enough recognition has gone to Texas Governor Rick Perry’s stand against AGROfuel.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rejection of Governor Perry’s petition is no discredit to his stand.
The anti-AGROfuels movement, usually at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the Republican Governor, didn’t seem to know how to react [...]
BIG UTILITY IN BIG WIND BUY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Scale.
The amount of energy the world consumes on a daily basis is really mind-boggling.
Example: California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger’s unprecedentedly ambitious “million solar roofs” initiative was widely hailed as game changing. It is likely to produce about the same number of megawatts as 5 wind installations the size of the one [...]
