Archive for December, 2008
« Previous EntriesFinal Comments on Solar Posts
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
I am going to be offline for a few more days, enjoying some time with the family. In the interim, Tom Standing has sent some detailed replies to some of the comments following his posts Arizona Solar Power Project and Ambitious Solar Plans in France.
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Here is some additional material in response [...]
Government and Industry Incompetence
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
I fear that gross incompetence in our federal and state governments - as well as in some of our major industries - is going to make life much more challenging for our children and grandchildren. The list this year alone is long. The financial sector took too many risks that didn’t [...]
China’s GP Batteries and BYD Show They May Be Forces to be Reckoned With In US Plug-in Market
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Although they received scant media attention in the U.S., two Chinese companies just made moves that may position themselves for big paydays in the rapidly-evolving plug-in electric hybrid vehicle (PHEV) industry.
BYD Company Ltd., whose stock trades in Hong Kong, just started selling the world’s first mass-produced plug-in cars, or so the New York [...]
ETS – Investor Alert 12-30-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Even as New Zealand waves on establishing a carbon cap-and-trade market, its neighbor Australia appears to be barreling through local business opposition and will launch a national carbon trading market in 2010. www.greencarcongress.com
Overall, the Rudd government said in a white paper, the country’s goal is to reduce its carbon emissions 5% to 15% [...]
BUY BONDS? (RENEW AMERICA BONDS)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In The Renew America Bond; A Blueprint for American Energy Renewal, John Floegel, president of Fishcreek Capital, describes the purpose behind his idea: “America needs a national mission: We must finally overcome our oil addiction, reinvigorate our industrial base and leave our country a better place for the next generation. [...]
HOW OBAMA WILL HANDLE DETROIT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
President Bush leapt into action to prevent Detroit’s Big 3 from going belly up on his watch. The stipulations on the loan his lame duck administration provided to sustain the automakers through the inauguration are not inconsiderable but they are, like the money, temporary.
The Obama administration will want to shape [...]
MR. SECRETARY, WE’RE WATCHING YOU
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
NewEnergyNews will end 2008 with a new feature. In addition to permanently posting columnist Anne Butterfield’s contributions down the left column, her fine bi-weekly think-pieces will be posted in the main column to kick them off from now on.
Mr. Secretary, we’re watching you
By Anne Butterfield
Sunday, December 28, 2008
As our new [...]
YEAR’S IMPORTANT REPORTS ON WORLD NEW ENERGY FROM IEA & GLOBAL GREEN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The end of 2008 saw the release of some major reports on what New Energy’s future is most likely to be. In this last 2008 edition of Sunday World, NewEnergyNews revisits a pair of the most important of the reports on world New Energy, NEW ENERGY TO PASS GAS WITHIN [...]
Simple Pictures, Simple Truths, Crucial Questions
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Great music (Aretha!), even greater questions, 3 soulful, thought-provoking minutes. From kimberleycalling via YouTube.
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Gore – Stop Burning Coal And Switch To Sun, Wind, Geothermal
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
”Clean coal is like healthy cigarettes. It does not exist…What we should do…switch our energy infrastructure…to a new global energy infrastructure that is based on fuel that is free forever, the sun and the wind and geothermal. There is a myth that the technology is not available. It is available…” [...]
Everything About Hanukah (The 1st Time Oil Peaked)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Spicy J and Hairy T rap out the whole story. With modern oil supplies once again peaking, President-elect Obama must take a page from the Maccabbees and lead his chosen people to New Energy. This time the miracle will come in the Senate instead of the synagogue. From kebbatouray via [...]
Russia to Sit on $56 Billion of CO2 Credits, Awaiting Kyoto Successor Before Cashing In
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Russia reportedly plans to sit on $56 billion worth of carbon credits until after 2012 rather than sell them in the trading market created by the Kyoto global-warming treaty.
The implications of this are significant. It means there is less chance the market price of a carbon credit will implode during the global recession. [...]
ETS Investor Alert 12-29-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Nissan, which continues to push strongly toward introducing plug-in electric vehicles through its involvement with Better Place, now also is aligned with maybe the world’s leading developer of plug-in recharging units, EDF. www.edmunds.com
If Better Place is everything it looks to be, this could be good news for both giant concerns.
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Happy HanuRamaKwanzmas
Submitted by New Energy News
From TooDARNFunny via YouTube
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Do A Joy To The World (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From ElfCottageMusic via YouTube
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Rudolph In The New Energy Age
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From GreenpeaceVideo via YouTube.
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EXTRA - TENN COAL ASH SPILL COULD COMPARE TO CHERNOBYL & EXXON VALDEZ
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Sorry to have to break this on Christmas Eve but sometimes life happens and it happened with a vengeance this time.
Posted with hopes and prayers for the people suffering through this.
Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards
Shaila Dewan, December 24, 2008 (NY Times)
“What may be the nation’s largest spill [...]
Top 10 Energy Stories of 2008
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
Tis the season for Top 10 stories, and here are what I think were the Top 10 energy stories of the year.
1. Unprecedented volatility in the energy markets
Oil prices raced to nearly $150 a barrel, and then fell to the $30’s by year end. This marks the highest ever prices for [...]
CHRISTMAS TREE FARM POWERED BY WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
Your beauty green will teach me
That hope and love will ever be
The way to joy and peace for me.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
Your beauty green will teach me.
…from O Christmas Tree (English version of O Tannenbaum, traditional)
Wind is just beginning to get traction in [...]
CHRISTMAS TREE FARM POWERED BY SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
In beauty green will always grow
Through summer sun and winter snow.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
…from O Christmas Tree (English version of O Tannenbaum, traditional)
Opening sentence an article in The Daily Times by Laura D’Alessandro: “The clatter [...]
SMART GREEN GIFTS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Waste increases 25% during the holiday season and much of it can be recycled. The first, greenest and most important thing to do at this tradition-laden time of year is think anew.
A diamond may be forever but some plastic lasts about as long in landfills and isn’t nearly as attractive.
From [...]
Worth a Closer Look? Tiny Solucorp’s Mercury- Reduction Technology Could Pay Off (Or Not)
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
“For a small company like Solucorp, even a 1% share of the mercury-reduction market will provide a tidy profit, Spindler says.”
You’ve just read the next-to-last sentence in a recent article in the respected trade publication Chemical & Engineering News that was entitled, “Getting Rid of Mercury.”
The article dealt with how some 20 eastern [...]
ETS Investor Alert 12-24-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Get a load of this list of 29 separate industrial activities that will subject to greenhouse gas reporting under the Western Climate Initiative, which includes California and several western U.S. states. lawandenvironment.com
Clearly, cap-and-trade is going to be influential in every industrial activity on Earth.
Until next Monday.
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OBAMA SETS BAR FOR NEW ENERGY AT CALIFORNIA HEIGHT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The President-elect has not only nominated Californians to key positions on his energy team (Secretary of Energy, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality), he has been quite clear about his model for developing New Energy and Energy Efficiency.President-elect Obama:“It is very important just to look at the [...]
BIGGEST YEAR YET FOR WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Just as there was no dobut about the selection of Time Magazine’s Person-of-the-Year (Barack Obama), there is no doubt about the most important New Energy event and wind energy industry event of the year.
For New Energy, passage of the tax credits as part of the economic stimulus package had to [...]
