Archive for August, 2008
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Russian oil production will decline over 1%, or approximately120,000 barrels a day, through 2010, a situation that is “much worse than we would have imagined as recently as six months ago,” Raymond James & Associates, the investment banking firm, said in a new report.
Raymond James blamed the expected decline on factors including “the [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-20-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
If you invest in wind power companies, chances are you want nothing to do with coal companies, and vice-versa.
Time to rethink that investment strategy. As this article notes www.guardian.co.uk in China there’s a surge in both coal and wind that’s likely to last a long time.
Until tomorrow.
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Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant (Pt. 2 of 4) - Water Purification Firms Calgon Carbon, Nalco are Interesting
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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 [...]
What Looks Good to One Of World’s Largest Alternative Energy Investors? Let’s Ask Good Energies’ Michael Ware
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What looks good to the seldom-interviewed Michael Ware, a managing director at Good Energies, one of the largest investors in alternative energy in the world?
Ware, who is also a founder and board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy and has been involved in alternative energy in and out of government for [...]
WHAT’S THE NEW NEW ENERGY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The current debate in the U.S. Congress shows clearly that a large minority of elected representatives means “oil” when it says “energy,” primarily because polls show the U.S. electorate hears “gas pump prices” when it hears energy.
The bulk of the electorate seems to like the ideas of solar energy and [...]
POLAR BEARS: ENDANGERED, THREATENED OR SHAFTED?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Blame it on the Mets.
Earlier this year, the Department of the Interior (DOI, Interior) listed the polar bear as a threatened species. DOI did NOT, however, list it as an endangered species.
Environmentalists claim ice melts, induced by global climate change, make the polar bear an endangered species.
DOI says listing the [...]
CHINA HOT WATER HEATERS HOTTER
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
China Solar & Clean Energy, Inc. (CSOL) specializes in selling small heating applicances adaptable to local energy sources, solar hot water systems and energy efficiency devices in the remote regions and smaller cities in China. Like China itself, CSOL’s business is growing steadily and surprisingly quickly. (See NEW ENERGY IN [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-19-08
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Despite its green rhetoric, the World Bank continues to support massive carbon-producing projects, according to this article. www.enn.com
Aside from the moral ambiguity of its position, the World Bank’s continuing proclivity to lend for coal and other “brown” energy projects is further indication that the pressure on fossil fuel sources, especially coal, will continue [...]
Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant (Pt. 1 of 4) - Look at Infrastructure Firms Ameron, Northwest Pipe, Mueller
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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 [...]
EnerNOC CEO Healy Sees ‘Demand Response’ 10% of Power Generation Mix In Less Than 5 Years
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It may be time to start thinking about electricity generation in a brand new way. In five years or less, demand response systems (DR) will account for roughly 10% of the U.S.’s generation mix compared with only about 1% today. That’s according to Tim Healy, CEO of Boston-based EnerNOC Inc., perhaps the foremost [...]
GEORGIA’S PIPELINES AND EUROPE’S CHOICE – HISTORY AS IT HAPPENS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The grandparents, Russian and East European immigrants, used to refer to a painful buildup of gas in the belly as “ah-ji-tah.”
The conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia is giving European nations “ah-ji-tah.”
The latest news is that the Russians ARE pulling back. Reports to now [...]
PHEV – HISTORY ON THE VERGE OF HAPPENING
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Believe a TV ad? Apparently.That commercial running during the Olympics says GM’s Chevrolet Volt, the history-making plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), is coming to U.S. auto showrooms in 2010. And GM execs say they are on track.
Andrew Farah, GM chief engineer, Chevrolet Volt: “At this point, there’s nothing standing in [...]
STRONG WINDS FROM SPAIN TO COLORADO – TOMORROW’S HISTORY
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Will the U.S. wind energy industry recapture its momentum after Congress restores its production tax credits (PTCs)? Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturer, seems to think so. It is building more than half-a-billion dollars worth of new manufacturing plants in Colorado.
On the strength of enormous demand for [...]
SUN UP DOWN UNDER
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As part of EcoNomics, a newly developed corporate sustainability program, multinational engineering giant WorleyParons is planning the development of a series of solar power plants for remote mining and industrial companies.
A check of recent WorleyParsons’ jobs shows an oil refinery expansion and a pipeline project in Canada, offshore drilling platform [...]
INDIA’S WINDMAKERS WANT NATIONAL POLICY; WHAT DOES INDIA WANT?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The wind industry in India is flexing its muscles. The government recently announced its climate change mitigation program (see INDIA GETS SERIOUS ABOUT SOLAR), putting a big emphasis on the development of the nation’s solar resources, waste biomass-to-biogas resources and hoped-for new nuclear. Wind wants in.
India’s wind industry expects to [...]
SOLAR BUSINESS BOOMING IN NORTHERN EUROPE
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There’s lots of uncertainty about subsidies in the most important solar markets in the world and it’s making investors cautious.Germany recently settled some incentive uncertainties. Kathryn Richards, market watcher, Forbes: “…proposed cuts in subsidies of up to 30% have been watered down to only 9% to 10% a year until [...]
George Carlin Offers A Little Perspective
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George Carlin talks about saving the planet, explains “The Big Electron” and puts it all in perspective. Funny and profound, this is not what it at first appears to be. The language is a little rough and he starts out bursting a few bubbles but give him a few minutes [...]
Energy Autonomy – The Code of Survival
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The trailer for the film version of solar energy visionary Hermann Scheer’s latest book, Energy Autonomy – The Code of Survival: “Energy autonomy is possible but it is not an easy way to go…” This is an image-dense 4 minutes. It deserves attention because it is Hermann Scheer. Without him, [...]
New Energy Wins When Fossil Fuels Fail
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This cartoon is a little too slow and a little too simple – in other words, just about right for anybody who has bought the argument that more oil drilling can have any significant impact on gas pump prices. Nice music mix. Will the kids like it? From shesrabid19 via [...]
Out of Sight of US Investors, Mitsubishi is Crafting Electric Vehicle Strategy That May Really Pay Off
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When public perception of a company changes, the value investors place on owning its shares does too. Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors appears to be setting the stage for a big change in its public perception, a change that could make its shares a lot more valuable.
Mitsubishi’s new public image will be built around electric [...]
Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant: Price of Water in US to Rise Up to 300% in Next 2-3 Years
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Memo to U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke: You’ve got a new inflation concern headed right at you – water. Over the next two to three years, the price of water may rise 200% to 300%, as the cost of critically-needed infrastructure repairs, greater purification for manufacturing and healthcare, plus more desalination plants, [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-18-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
It sounds really weird but it may turn out to be a really effective way to save gasoline.
According to the Associated Press, Nissan Motor Co. plans to introduce cars with gas pedals that fight drivers’ urge to speed up quickly. money.cnn.com
When the pedal thinks you’re pushing down too hard, it will push back! [...]
MYTHBUSTING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It is fashionable these days to talk about a “Manhattan Project” or an “Apollo Project” or a “Marshall Plan” for New Energy. Some of the most important guys in the fight are leading the charge, guys like Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times journalist Tom Friedman and energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens [...]
BIG CALIF SOLAR POWER PLANT DEAL - IF…
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The biggest photovoltaic power purchase deal EVER, ANYWHERE, was just announced. Financial terms not disclosed – except one item: No federal investment tax credits (ITCs), no deal.
One other little item: No available transmission, no deal.
The solar companies involved will finance the new transmission. They’ll get their investment back in fees, [...]
WILL CANADA BUILD N. AMERICA’S 1ST OFFSHORE WIND?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it. Not the weather. Offshore wind.
Ah, but those British Columbians – they’re doers.
Example: Most economists believe a carbon tax would be a better way than a cap-and-trade system to mitigate global climate change – if it was politically doable. So the [...]
