Archive for November, 2008
« Previous EntriesOpen Memo to President - Elect Obama (Part 4) – 1 Green Building = 1/3 New Green Job
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Parts 1 through 3 of EnergyTechStocks.com’s recent “Open Memo to President-elect Obama” (see story links below) added up to a giant warning to investors that the new U.S. president probably won’t be able to bolster the overall economy by following through on his campaign promise to create five million new “green” jobs for [...]
ETS Investor Alert 12-1-08
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A new report indicates that carbon dioxide is being absorbed by groundwater at a rate 100 times faster than it is in the atmosphere. in.news.yahoo.com
This could become a real problem for attempts to sequester CO2 underground wherever sites are near groundwater supplies.
Yet another reason to question the long-term prospects for carbon sequestration.
Until tomorrow.
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Budding Billionaire? Will Neal Dikeman’s Software Be Key to Creating a $3.5 Trillion Carbon Trading Market?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In its October 2008 “Carbon Industry Intelligence Research Note,” UK-based New Carbon Finance, the carbon trading market’s leading intelligence source, predicted carbon emissions trading will be a $3.5 trillion global market in 2020 compared with a little more than $100 billion in 2008, “assuming a US market does materialize.”
While such an assumption looks [...]
Sierra Club Thanksgiving —What are you thankful for?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is still a lot to be grateful for. Like, “…the trees turning colors…” and “…flowers…” And change is coming. From NationalSierraClub via YouTube.
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Thanksgiving Song – Thanks For The Rain
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
David Campbell“One Life - To stop wailing our littany of againstness, One Life - To sing strongly our anthem of forness.”
“…let’s listen together to this and other works of a great contemporay Canadian artist, thinker and humanist, our brother David Campbell, an old Arawak soul, speaking and singing to us [...]
New Energy – Something To Be For
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
New Energy is clean energy. It’s something to be FOR. Another one for the kids and the kids at heart. From codegaard via YouTube.
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GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
NewEnergyNews Friday feature.
AL GORE SAYS – TELL EPA TO STOP THEM!
Tell EPA to protect our health and climate
November 28, 2008 (Repower America)
“After more than a year of delay, the Environmental Protection Agency is now requesting public comments on whether carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants — the primary causes of [...]
RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The reports and recommendations are flying fast and furious.
Everybody knows what the incoming administration should do.
Example: The SaveOurEnvironment.Org coalition released Transition to Green; Leading the way to a healthy environment, a green economy and a sustainable future, a 390+ page report. (WITH NO PICTURES!)
It’s a nonstop series of “Environmental Transition [...]
How Coal Industry May Be Able to Build a ‘Green’ Public Image by Stressing New Ties to Wind Power
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Nuclear power is back in favor because its advocates succeeded in changing the public’s perception of nuclear from a “dangerous” power source to a “green” power source that produces emissions-free electricity.
Now coal has a chance to do the same, thanks to an ingenious new idea from UK Coal and its 28% owner, Peel [...]
Can Raser Technologies Reap the Rewards of Discovering Huge Geothermal Site in US?
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
The year hasn’t been kind to Raser Technologies Inc., a geothermal development company that trades on NYSE Arca. At the beginning of the year, Raser’s stock was trading above $15 a share; now it wallows below $4 a share.
Raser is an emerging energy technology company having what appears to be good long-term prospects [...]
ETS Investor Alert 11-28-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In America they’re building concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in the desert. In the Middle East, they may soon build “floating solar islands” that do the same thing. www.celsias.com
A giant dish floating on the ocean will collect sunlight and concentrate it onto water pipes. The water in the pipes will be converted to [...]
UK Firm AMEC Plc Looks Poised to Benefit If Obama Pushes a ‘Cleaner’ Coal Agenda
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
No matter how bad the U.S. economy gets in the coming months, President-elect Barack Obama is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to coal-fired power plants. If he shuts them down, he will exacerbate a forecasted nationwide power generation shortfall. If he keeps them running without requiring that they [...]
Trimming Your Green Portfolio (Part 3 of 3) – Hydrogenics Corp. and Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
With the stock market in the tank and a global recession setting in, even many major green energy developers are cutting plans for 2009. For smaller guys – including a number that EnergyTechStocks.com has positively written about – 2009 shapes up as a very difficult year.
For those wishing to trim their green portfolios, [...]
ETS Investor Alert 11-27-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Japan may be aggressively trying to curb its carbon dioxide emissions, but it’s still releasing record amounts of CO2. afp.google.com
No one questions the Japanese government’s good intentions. But with results like this, how can the world hope to get its CO2 problems under control without potentially devastating the global economy?
Talk about being between [...]
Renewable Energy Highlights and Commentary
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
In Part I, I presented the notes on renewable energy that I took as I read through the 2008 International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook. Here in Part II, I organize those notes, and then provide some general comments and conclusions. I am now offline for a few days. Happy [...]
Renewable Energy Highlights and Commentary
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
In Part I, I presented the notes on renewable energy that I took as I read through the 2008 International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook. Here in Part II, I organize those notes, and then provide some general comments and conclusions. I am now offline for a few days. Happy [...]
OBAMA, GORE, GREENPEACE – HOW LONG WILL THIS BE GOIN’ ON?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Actions speak louder than words – except in politics. Nothing is louder than the onslaught of the chattering classes. The sheer volume of words is enough to turn any head.
The present administration’s New Energy policy has, despite its rhetoric, emerged in a series of ineffectual programs (the Solar America Initiative [...]
OBAMA, GORE, GREENPEACE – HOW LONG WILL THIS BE GOIN’ ON?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Actions speak louder than words – except in politics. Nothing is louder than the onslaught of the chattering classes. The sheer volume of words is enough to turn any head.
The present administration’s New Energy policy has, despite its rhetoric, emerged in a series of ineffectual programs (the Solar America Initiative [...]
HYDROKINETIC ENERGY AT THE CROSSING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
One of the things that draws people to the study and development of New Energy is an intuition about a future that is becoming every day more palpable. In an assessment of the progress made by hydrokinetic (wave, tide and current) energy, a pioneer in the field described that intuition.
Tom [...]
CITIES BY THE BATTERY
Submitted by <strong><a href=”http://newenergynews.blogspot.com/”>New Energy News Blog</a></strong>
The Cities by the Bay have developed ambitions to become the Cities by the Battery.
The battery of an electric vehicle (EV).
San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, California, have all signed on with Better Place to develop a regional EV transport system. The system will be based on the model [...]
CITIES BY THE BATTERY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The Cities by the Bay have developed ambitions to become the Cities by the Battery.
The battery of an electric vehicle (EV).
San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, California, have all signed on with Better Place to develop a regional EV transport system. The system will be based on the model now [...]
WAXMAN ‘DA MAN (TO CHAIR HOUSE ENERGY COMMITTEE)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Congressman Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif) wresting of the power-loaded House Commerce and Energy Committee Chairmanship from Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich) underscores the profundity of the changing of the guard in the D.C. halls of power.
The Energy and Commerce Committee controls a wide spectrum of issues, from consumer protection and regulation of [...]
WAXMAN ‘DA MAN (TO CHAIR HOUSE ENERGY COMMITTEE)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Congressman Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif) wresting of the power-loaded House Commerce and Energy Committee Chairmanship from Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich) underscores the profundity of the changing of the guard in the D.C. halls of power.
The Energy and Commerce Committee controls a wide spectrum of issues, from consumer protection and regulation of [...]
POWER FROM THE GRAVEYARD
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Conste-Live Energy runs the cemetery in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a Barcelona, Spain, suburb. It is also in the New Energy business.
Conste-Live Energy wanted to build solar. The problem: Though Santa Coloma likes solar energy, it is densely populated. Santa Coloma is home to 124,000 people in 4 square kilometers [...]
MOVING WIND POWER AROUND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is 1 of 4 federal agencies created to manage the power created by the hydroelectric projects built by the federal government.
WAPA has obligations to supply power to a wide range of electricity users. Drought on the Missouri River, now 8 years in duration, has [...]
