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Alternative Energy

Mother Nature Reminds Tokyo of Fukushima's Ongoing Vulnerability

Jun 20, 2012 at 17:55 | John Daly

On 11 March 2001 Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) six reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex was effectively destroyed by an earthquake, which produced a tsunami that swamped the facility.Fifteen…

Promising Discoveries made in Fuel Cell Research

Jun 20, 2012 at 17:37 | Brian Westenhaus

Ballard Power Systems, a Vancouver British Columbia, Canada based fuel cell manufacturer is flirting with becoming profitable.  The enthusiasm surrounding fuel cells has been the roller coaster ride of the…

Getting Ahead in the Solar Energy Market

Jun 20, 2012 at 17:26 | Climate Progress

The solar industry has come a long way in recent years, but now companies around the world are grappling with a solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in rapid transition, with significant…

IEA Says more Clean Energy Investment Needed to Avoid the Worst Climate Impacts

Jun 19, 2012 at 17:09 | Tyler Hamilton

Climate-change skeptics like to call environmentalists “alarmists” because of their call for urgent action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The skeptics say the science is too uncertain, that there’s no rush…

Rough Years Ahead for the Solar Industry

Jun 18, 2012 at 19:04 | Gary Hunt

Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) workshop presentation of its Q2:2012 outlook for photovoltaic panels has attracted a lot of attention.  Before the presentation BNEF leaked the workshop slides to Forbes,…

Innovative Ways of Producing Biofuel - Tobacco, Whiskey, and Seaweed

Jun 15, 2012 at 17:22 | Climate Progress

Biofuels have fallen out of favour in many environmental and political circles. But in the world of science, researchers around the world are working on some very innovative ways to…

Russia's Nuclear Industry is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Jun 14, 2012 at 17:49 | Editorial Dept

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Renewable Energy Stocks that Provide Great Investment Opportunities

Jun 14, 2012 at 17:37 | Environmental Finance

Despite ever-rising carbon dioxide emissions, sinking solar stocks, and perceived falls in government support for renewables, the low-carbon investment theme is “alive and well”, according to analysts at Citi.

Renewable Energy Sees a Record $257 Billion of Investment in 2011

Jun 13, 2012 at 16:43 | James Burgess

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) announced in a new report that in 2011 global renewable energy investment reached a record $257 billion; a 17 percent increase from 2010, and a…

IEA: Adopting Cleantech Could Save $100 Trillion by 2050

Jun 13, 2012 at 16:41 | Climate Progress

The once staid International Energy Agency continues its string of blunt, must-read reports laying bare the reality of our climate and energy system.While so many “experts” and politicians…

The Reality Behind the Most Common Biofuel Myths

Jun 11, 2012 at 16:54 | Biofuels Digest

What are the most-told myths for biofuels, and what does science actually tell us?The Digest separates the fact from the fiction.The EU and the United States…

Clean Energy: Ignore the Critics and Follow the Investors

Jun 11, 2012 at 16:51 | Climate Progress

Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America’s most-watched investor. GE, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers, is too.Each of these corporate icons is placing big bets…

Sorghum, the Next Big Investment in Advanced Biofuels

Jun 10, 2012 at 07:49 | Editorial Dept

Grain sorghum is poised to become the first official advanced biofuel and the next big biofuel investment to watch closely, as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares for its final…

The Progress made in the Different Fields of Nuclear Fusion

Jun 08, 2012 at 16:45 | Professor Chris Rhodes

Feasible fusion power – the carrot before the donkey?When I was about 10, I recall hearing that nuclear fusion power would become a reality "in about thirty years".…

Investing in the Vast Solar Energy Potential of the Middle East and North Africa

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:23 | Charles Kennedy

Arguably, the Middle East and North Africa are ripe for renewable energy investment, particularly in the solar energy sector and specifically in terms of concentrated solar power (CSP). Because it…

Leaked Documents Reveal UK Government Opposes EU Green Energy Targets

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:08 | Charles Kennedy

New documents that have been leaked reveal that the British government has been trying its best to dilute the potency of new European renewable energy and carbon emission targets, despite…

The DOD is Vital for Fostering Emerging Energy Technologies

Jun 07, 2012 at 18:06 | Innovation Policy Blog

The military’s FY2013 budget is playing out to be a hot-bed of debate over the role of government in supporting clean energy innovation. Both the U.S. House of Representatives…

How to Ensure U.S. Wind Power Succeeds without Subsidies

Jun 06, 2012 at 16:54 | Breakthrough Institute

In an editorial today, the Washington Post called on lawmakers to put innovation at the centre of federal policies supporting wind power, in the latest endorsement of the findings…

Pakistan Chooses Nuclear Energy over Climate Change in New Budget

Jun 06, 2012 at 16:50 | SciDev SciDev

Pakistan's 44 per cent hike in outlay for atomic energy in its 2012–2013 budget contrasts with a massive drop in funds for crop research and overshadows a much smaller hike…

Do Flying Wind Turbines have a Future?

Jun 05, 2012 at 17:04 | Climate Progress

I like site visits—there’s nothing like seeing a company’s innovations in person.  In the case of Makani Power, I harboured some core misconceptions about their technology, and the visit…

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