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TO INSTALL SUN OR TO STREAMLINE? (THAT IS THE QUESTION?)

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:26:05 +0000

Submitted by New Energy News Blog Here’s an issue likely to be a big part of the debate coming in with the Obama administration and its Green New Deal. Energy Efficiency (EE) is the cheapest fastest way to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (GhGs) – but funding it does nothing to build the New Energy (NE) infrastructure [...]

OLD ENERGY IS JUST TOO EXPENSIVE

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:24:49 +0000

Submitted by New Energy News Blog There is growing need for new U.S. power generation. In the absence of serious improvements in efficiency or a sudden burst of new construction of capacity, brownouts, and even blackouts, are a very real likelihood in the foreseeable future. What is preventing the building of new capacity? A new study from [...]

A WIND ON THE LAND

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:22:34 +0000

Submitted by New Energy News Blog A great little (true) story: A representative of wind developer enXco was negotiating with Wyoming rancher Bob Grant and his sons for land rights to install a wind project in 2007. enXco was offering $2.50/acre. Discussions broke off. The enXco rep came back a year later offering nearly $5.00/acre. The enXco [...]

GLOBAL TRENDS UNFORESEEN

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:21:08 +0000

Submitted by New Energy News Blog This is the report (Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World) that came out last week to headlines screaming about U.S. inadequacies in future global competition. No wonder. Its key theme: Drill, baby, drill. The US National Intelligence Council (NIC) seems to have derived one insight from its research and reporting: Be afraid, [...]

Open Memo to President - Elect Obama (Part 4) – 1 Green Building = 1/3 New Green Job

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:59:25 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:58:09 +0000

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com 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.

Budding Billionaire? Will Neal Dikeman’s Software Be Key to Creating a $3.5 Trillion Carbon Trading Market?

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:57:04 +0000

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?

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:38:05 +0000

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.

Thanksgiving Song – Thanks For The Rain

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:36:48 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:28:13 +0000

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.

GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:51:05 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:47:19 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:44:35 +0000

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?

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:43:20 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:42:44 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:41:36 +0000

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.

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:40:38 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:39:44 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:20:13 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:45:35 +0000

OBAMA, GORE, GREENPEACE – HOW LONG WILL THIS BE GOIN’ ON?

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:42:47 +0000

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?

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:40:31 +0000

HYDROKINETIC ENERGY AT THE CROSSING

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:30:03 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:28:11 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:17:43 +0000

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 [...]