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Submitted by New Energy News Blog
In 1996, when oil and gas prices plummeted, the Department of Energy cut back or abandoned promising research projects on alternative liquid vehicle fuels such as the development of algae-based biofuels. A few years later, the best electric vehicle experiment ever done by a major carmaker – the EV1 project [...]
Loading Up on PBR
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
A little over a month ago, as a result of the dramatic fall in the market capitalizations of oil companies, I opened up a brokerage account with Ameritrade to take advantage of the fire sale. Besides my ConocoPhillips (COP) stock, most of my investments are diversified in various mutual funds - [...]
ETS Investor Alert 12-23-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
A third of consumers say they expect to purchase one or more “green” electronic products within two years. www.environmentalleader.com
In addition, nearly nine in 10 want the next TV they buy to be more energy efficient.
Until tomorrow.
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10 Publicly-Traded Companies To Watch in 2009 – #2 Itron Inc. #1 IBM
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Is there anyone who doesn’t think that, with Barack Obama in the White House, clean and green won’t be hot in 2009? Here are 10 publicly-traded companies that EnergyTechStocks.com thinks investors should look at carefully before the calendar turns and the new U.S. president details his plans for a green, efficient “new energy [...]
10 Publicly-Traded Companies To Watch in 2009 – #4 Japan Steel Works #3 Fluor Corp.
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Is there anyone who doesn’t think that, with Barack Obama in the White House, clean and green won’t be hot in 2009? Here are 10 publicly-traded companies that EnergyTechStocks.com thinks investors should look at carefully before the calendar turns and the new U.S. president details his plans for a green, efficient “new energy [...]
WORKING THE SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Both Barack Obama and John McCain talked about young people finding a sense of purpose in public service. President Bush talks about such purpose in military service. Spencer Bockus has another idea.
Spencer Bockus (22), solar system installer, Akeena Solar: “Sometimes I’m 50 feet up on a steep roof and it’s [...]
CURRENT ENERGY PROJECT APPROVED, A U.S. FIRST
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Hydrokinetic energy is the energy in moving (kinetic) water (hydro). It can be captured from waves, tides and ocean and river currents.
Hydrokinetic energy can be put to work. Rivers have, for centuries, turned waterwheels and carried watercraft downstream. Hydroelectric dams are a familiar site on rivers around the world. A [...]
EPA GIVES COAL PERMISSION TO SPEW
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
According to the head of the Bush EPA, it would be just fine if new coal plants get built without any carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions controls.
This is not a surprising decision from a man who has done everything he could in the last year-and-a-half to prevent EPA from playing a [...]
WITHOUT NEW ENERGY, WORLD’S EMISSIONS COSTS COULD SKYROCKET
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Climate Change Mitigation; What Do We Do?, a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), compares the predicted costs of climate change to the costs expected for mitigating it.
From the report: “Ambitious greenhouse gas abatement is economically rational, but it will not be cheap…”
The OECD plan [...]
A GREENING CHINA WANTS NEW ENERGY DEAL WITH U.S.
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Times are tough. That’s not news. Credit is tight. Not news either. Investing in New Energy in China is a good bet. News?
Not to GE Energy China or Caterpillar’s China division.
Kate Wang, spokeswoman, Caterpillar: “This economic downturn is not going to stop the world’s need for better infrastructure and more [...]
GREEKS FLY TOWARD SUN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There are a variety of competing solar power plant technologies, ranging from arrays of the familiar photovoltaic (PV) panels that collect sunlight to drive electrons to a variety of exotic systems that use mirrors to concentrate the sun’s heat to drive a turbine.
SolFocus Inc. has developed a combination of the [...]
The Green Gorilla Gets Efficient
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
An 8-minute adventure for the up-and-coming greenpower generations about what coal will do to good fresh gorilla mountain power unless kids learn to become their vision, find the power within and make their way back to rockin’ at the Gorilla Greenhouse. This is a pretty amazing cartoon. From The Gorilla [...]
Because The World Needs To Know
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
And now for a profound minute-and-a-half about 350 ppm – without words. Climate change activists, led by Al Gore, have planted the flag: The atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration must be brought back to 350 ppm (from its current 387 ppm level). From 350org via YouTube.
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Solar Energy Is H.O.T.
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The winning entry in Discover Magazine’s The Future Of Energy In 2 Minutes Or Less video contest by Sandia National Labs scientist Cliff Ho. From Brightcove via The New Mexico Independent.
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10 Publicly-Traded Companies To Watch in 2009 – #6 Energy Recovery #5 AMEC Plc
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Is there anyone who doesn’t think that, with Barack Obama in the White House, clean and green won’t be hot in 2009? Here are 10 publicly-traded companies that EnergyTechStocks.com thinks investors should look at carefully before the calendar turns and the new U.S. president details his plans for a green, efficient “new energy [...]
ETS Investor Alert 12-22-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Don’t expect the recession to lower carbon dioxide emissions. www.guardian.co.uk
Experts say it would take something dramatic – like an entire industry shutting down – for greenhouse gas emissions to drop more than about 1% in the current economic downturn.
Until tomorrow.
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Is Global Economy’s Computing Power About To Peak? New Survey Warns on Power Shortages
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
In just two years time, businesses may not be able to add to their computing power primarily because data center operators won’t have enough electricity to expand their operations.
That’s the unsettling conclusion of a new survey of data center professionals by Emerson Network Power, a unit of Emerson Electric Co. The survey’s results [...]
Ambitious Solar Plans in France; Solar Capacity Factors
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
The following guest post was written by Tom Standing, a “semi-retired, part-time civil engineer for the City of San Francisco.” In Part 1, Tom took a critical look at a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona. Here in Part 2, Tom examines France’s ambitious solar plans.
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The December 1 issue of [...]
Arizona Solar Power Project, Calculations
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
The following guest post was written by Tom Standing, a “semi-retired, part-time civil engineer for the City of San Francisco.” In Part 1, Tom takes on the calculations for a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona that I looked at back in February. My conclusion from that essay was that [...]
Cellulosic Ethanol Targets Slipping
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
For those who read this blog, this story will come as no surprise. I have been warning for a couple of years that the cellulosic ethanol proponents have been getting ahead of themselves with predictions of how quickly the industry will scale up. In fact, not only have I said that [...]
PEAK OIL STILL COMING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Almost the entire energy world agrees: Global oil supplies will – sooner or later – be inadequate to the needs of the world’s population. The question: When do supply limits begin imposing observable economic constraints?
Answers range from “it is already happening” to “nobody knows” and makes for a challenging debate, [...]
UTILITY, DEVELOPER WILL BUILD NEW WIND, NEED NEW TRANSMISSION
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
It’s an important story, reported over and over again this year, and likely to be reported frequently in 2009. In several regions of the U.S., wind’s potential is limited only by the local transmission system’s capacity to bring it from the remote regions where it is captured to the population [...]
GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
A NewEnergyNews Friday feature.GOOD IDEAS FOR CHANGE IS COMING
Eight Eenergy Suggestions for Obama, from SunEdison’s Founder
Kate Galbraith, December 12, 2008 (NY Times)
“…Jigar Shah, the founder of SunEdison…shared a number of interesting suggestions for transforming the nation’s energy profile…(1) Spend $10 billion over the next few years to green the federal [...]
PFW Water Fund’s Neil Berlant Has a List of Eight Water Infrastructure Plays
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Just as Wall Street is the guardian of America’s financial capital, some 52,000 water systems in the U.S. are a key guardian of America’s “natural capital.” Because most are owned by cash-desperate municipalities, many are in even worse shape than the Detroit automakers, unable to repair hundreds of thousands of miles of old [...]
10 Publicly-Traded Companies To Watch in 2009 - #8 Waterfurnace Renewable Energy #7 Ormat Technologies
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Is there anyone who doesn’t think that, with Barack Obama in the White House, clean and green won’t be hot in 2009 no matter what the state of the economy? Here are 10 publicly-traded companies that EnergyTechStocks.com thinks investors should look at carefully before the calendar turns and the new U.S. president details [...]
