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Probably the most telling statistic in a new report on global New Energy investment trends: Despite the impact of the credit crisis on financial markets, overall investment in New Energy during the first half of 2008 has been just ABOVE levels in the first half of 2007 (a boom year).Achim […]

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The fight over CO2 is going on in many states simultaneously as a result of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to act.Kansas has stopped the construction of coal plants (KANSAS REJECTS EMISSIONS). An environmental board in Arkansas this week refused to act until the EPA rules (Panel denies air-code […]

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Barry Bernsten has been bitten by the EV bug. Like other EV enthusiasts before him, he is not waiting around for the major automakers to bring EVs to showrooms. Through his BG Automotive Group Ltd., he’s going to roll his own converted low speed electric vehicles off assembly lines in […]

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Should a Category 3 or higher hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico this summer, causing the sort of widespread damage to America’s energy infrastructure inflicted in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, spot energy prices will spike 50% to 100%. But don’t expect $200-plus oil to last for long. Such a spike will break the […]

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A report from the U.S.’s Argonne National Laboratory concludes that China is making “vast progress” in developing lithium-ion batteries, a clear indication that Chinese battery manufacturers should be among the big winners as the world ramps up production of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles and consumer electronics.
The report notes that a number of Chinese […]

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More evidence that the energy crisis and the environmental crisis may not be solvable at the same time, no matter what climate change scientists warn about the world running out of time.
As this story notes www.independent.co.uk there’s a serious reevaluation underway in Great Britain over whether the country can “afford” to go green […]

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More evidence that the energy crisis and the environmental crisis may not be solvable at the same time, no matter what climate change scientists warn about the world running out of time.
As this story notes www.independent.co.uk there’s a serious reevaluation underway in Great Britain over whether the country can “afford” to go green […]

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NewEnergyNews has already covered the Stirling Energy/San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) solar power plant development. (See STIRLING ENERGY: CONCENTRATING SOLAR) SDG&E, as part of its California Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) obligation to obtain 20% of its power from New Energy sources, has a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Stirling […]

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Just another week in the wind business: Utilities can’t seem to get their fill of wind. Considering that utilities have to either keep the lights on or go out of business, their insatiable appetite says more about wind energy’s maturity than a hundred Department of Energy reports.
Duke Energy is buying […]

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The latest revelation of how unwise it is to depend on AGROfuels as transport fuel sources: Midwest floods are threatening corn crops, making corn even more valuable as food and feed, adding yet further upward pressure on prices.(See Weather Risks Cloud Promise of Biofuel)
The problems with corn ethanol and other […]

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Despite all the media attention being given to U.S. presidential candidate John McCain’s plan to build 100 nuclear power plants, investors should stay focused on the international market. That’s where they will find two South Korean companies they should keep their eyes on, according to commercial nuclear power financial analyst Bruce Lacy.
The two […]

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Listen to Bill Vogel, CEO of privately-held Trilliant Inc., a key player in the coming era of electricity-consuming devices able to communicate with one another and with power suppliers, and you realize that the energy efficiency revolution he is describing could lead to small fortunes being made by investors in companies that will […]

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The fighting over oil and natural deposits north of the Arctic Circle is seriously getting out of hand.
As this story notes, www.bloomberg.com the Russian military is now training soldiers to defend what Moscow claims is its oil and gas deposits against claims by the U.S., Canada, Norway and others.
Could an honest-to-god shooting war […]

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has placed a moratorium on the building of new solar power plant installations on federal lands until it can make a more accurate assessment of environmental impacts. Interestingly, this is the same strategy Russia is using to slow oil development in eastern Siberia and […]

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The U.S. Midwestern prairies have been called the Saudi Arabia of wind energy. Calculations have shown there is enough wind in the central corridor of the country to power the nation.As recently as the Great Depression of the 1930s, the winds were ruinous to Midwestern farmers. With the advent the […]

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A visit to the Midland Petroleum Club in President Bush’s hometown of Midland, Texas, produced some provocative statements from members expressing dissatisfaction with the current administration’s performance on energy. What do the old boys from the oil industry want? More of everything.
Ted Collins, Chairman, Patriot Resources: “I think Bush has […]

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There is no substitute for the element phosphorous, which, as this story notes, www.theaustralian.news.com is at the heart of modern farming.
Nevertheless, phosphorous is being used up and wasted at such a rate that the world could run out in 50 years, in large part because of the world’s growing use of crop-based transportation […]

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As rising global demand for electricity runs headlong into growing public concern over power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the promise of a power grid as “smart” as a telephone or cable TV network is quickly becoming real. Led by efforts in Ireland, Australia, the U.S. and other countries, over $40 billion reportedly […]

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Nobody is in a better position to analyze the numerous new technologies being developed in an effort to save the world from its energy crisis than Mike Millikin, head of the authoritative web site Green Car Congress. So what’s the most incredibly exciting, mind-blowing new technology on Millikin’s radar screen?
Bugs.
That’s right. Bugs.

Not just […]

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At a June 17 Congressional hearing about how oil prices are affected by oil market speculators, the assembled panel of experts unanimously agreed speculation is responsible for driving oil prices 50% higher than they would otherwise be.Congressman Joe Barton (R-Tex), an oil and gas industry advocate, argued high oil prices […]

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MMA Renewable Ventures and other finance mavens have come up with a wrinkle on the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) concept to help get consumers past the single biggest obstacle to home and business solar installations, the upfront costs and financial complexities.
Normally, a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is between a utility […]

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As anything that significantly impacts global climate change, these highly touted carbon-neutral events are almost offensively trivial. As PR events spreading awareness of the issue to people who might never otherwise consider them and places where they might not otherwise be heard, they are of incalculable value.
A certain percentage of […]

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Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë wants to create Autolib, a public electric car sharing program designed like the Parisian Vélib’ bicycle program. The plan is to place 4000 EVs at locations around the city and, for a small fee one-time fee or as part of a monthly subscription, Parisians can grab […]

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A new report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistics crunching office, predicts big increases in energy and fossil fuel consumption despite making one thing perfectly clear: The era of cheap oil is over.
The report predicts 2030 oil prices will be in the $113/barrel to $186/barrel […]

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There is an ongoing debate about exactly how much the AGROfuels industries are impacting world food prices and aggravating world hunger. The AGROfuels industry associations point to inflated oil prices and the falling dollar as the main culprits.A recent authoritative report from New Energy Finance (see BIOFUELS AND FOOD, BY […]

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