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Alternative Energy / Renewable Energy

New Technology could Double the Efficiency of Wave Energy Systems

Nov 21, 2012 at 17:23 | Green Futures

Wave energy developers have long had their eye on the UK’s south-west coastline, particularly northern Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. It faces the powerful Atlantic swell and has been earmarked…

Google Goes on Renewable Energy Shopping Spree

Nov 19, 2012 at 12:40 | Charles Kennedy

Google is a giant consumer of energy, but it also sees into the future. That’s why it’s pursuing investments in renewable energy and is now approaching the $1 billion investment…

Report Suggests Renewables Could Generate 85% of Australia's Electricity by 2050

Nov 15, 2012 at 17:04 | EcoSeed

Renewable energy sources in Australia could account for 40 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2035 and as much as 85 percent by 2050, a recently released energy white…

Could Electric Cars Make the Middle East Geopolitically Irrelevant?

Nov 13, 2012 at 17:30 | Juan Cole

Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day of oil production comes out…

Leading U.S. Oil Supplier Mexico to Embrace Renewable Energy?

Nov 09, 2012 at 17:47 | John Daly

When two of the leading oil exporters to the U.S. begin considering embracing renewable power, it is a development that all but the most ardent fossil fuel advocates should notice.

Rossi's Investors Talk about the Progress of his E-Cat

Nov 07, 2012 at 17:29 | Brian Westenhaus

The first folks to put up money for the Andrea Rossi E-Cat are the territorial distributors.  Whatever any of us might think, these folks have the wherewithal and fortitude to…

Elections and Electrons

Nov 05, 2012 at 17:35 | Dave Zgodzinski

The election on Tuesday could shape the deployment of renewable energy in the US for the next several years. It’s peculiar that renewable energy has become a sharp point of…

Hurricane Sandy Highlights the Need to Move to Renewable Energy Sources

Nov 02, 2012 at 19:03 | Post Carbon

Somewhere in the midst of watching the Weather Channel's reporting on the approach of Superstorm Sandy, I was struck by the lack of meteorologists saying anything about what was behind…

The U.S.-EU Green Energy Divide

Oct 26, 2012 at 17:57 | Daniel J. Graeber

A report backed by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council finds the European Union could generate trillions of dollars in fuel savings by looking beyond goals mandated for 2020.…

Ocean Power the Ignored Alternative

Oct 24, 2012 at 17:23 | Llewellyn King

DUBLIN -- Call it the joy of engineering.There is such a thing, and it is at its peak when engineers face a challenge unfettered by politics or marketing.…

Saudi Arabia, World's Leading Oil Producer, to go "Green" at Home?

Oct 23, 2012 at 17:48 | John Daly

Renewable energy, currently a Republican object of derision and attack on the Obama administration in next month’s U.S. presidential election, may have found a most unlikely ally.Saudi Arabia.

Nightmare on Electric Vehicle Street

Oct 23, 2012 at 17:44 | Dave Zgodzinski

Halloween starts earlier and earlier every year. Cobwebs on restaurant doorways, skulls on bank counters, when it’s still weeks away.  Evidently there are plenty of inner ghouls with lots of…

US Army's Ambitious Renewable Energy Strategy

Oct 15, 2012 at 17:26 | Energy Digital

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has set forth some pretty aggressive plans to transition out of its dependence on foreign fossil fuels into a cleaner, more efficiently powered future.…

Kazakhstan Will Not Invest in Renewables Until they Become More Competitive

Oct 09, 2012 at 17:21 | RFE/RL staff

Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry said the country will have to wait until alternative sources of energy become competitive economically before the energy industry seriously considers it.In a…

Why we Need to Implement an Energy Transition - Quickly

Oct 02, 2012 at 17:10 | Kurt Cobb

No doubt you've heard people speak of an energy transition from a fossil fuel-based society to one based on renewable energy--energy which by its very nature cannot run out. Here's…

Green Jobs: Who's on a Hiring Spree?

Oct 01, 2012 at 17:28 | Charles Kennedy

This month has been a fortuitous one for green jobs, despite the ups and downs particularly in the wind energy sector, and there are a handful of companies who seem…

Money: A New (Decentralized) Shade of Green

Sep 27, 2012 at 17:41 | Charles Kennedy

As America’s clean energy industry takes up position in a no-man’s land between subsidies and sustainability, the idea of “Green Banks” is being touted as a life-line that will push…

Why Is the Government Determined to Support the EV Industry?

Sep 26, 2012 at 17:24 | Bruce Krasting

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) did a good job of shredding the electric car industry and the government’s role in its evolution with this report (Link): 

Looking at the Technologies being Developed to Extract Energy from the Oceans

Sep 10, 2012 at 17:41 | EcoSeed

Renewable energy is often dominated in the discussions by solar, wind and biomass. While they already have a wide fan base, yet another promising emerging technology is marine power.

Deal with the Devil, Invest in Iranian Renewable Energy

Aug 29, 2012 at 16:46 | Charles Kennedy

Why are we even talking about Iran’s nuclear program when renewable energy offers a clear way out of this conundrum? If we can remove bad politics from the equation for…

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