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Alternative Energy

Clean Tech Industry Needs Federal Cash due to Lack of Private Investors

May 24, 2012 at 16:56 | Environmental Finance

The US government must step in to finance clean energy research and development as the private markets continue to shy away from such investments, experts said.Energy innovators are…

Solar Trade Wars: Victory for US Manufacturers, Loss for Solar Overall?

May 23, 2012 at 17:36 | Charles Kennedy

Solar manufacturing lobbyists have won the latest round of a trade war with China, but the entire solar industry could pay dearly for a victory that could see heavy US…

Pakistan's Abundance in Renewable Energy

May 23, 2012 at 17:05 | SciDev SciDev

Pakistan's vast renewable energy potential remains largely untapped for a mix of reasons, twin analyses show.The analyses, to be published in the June 2012 issue of Renewable and…

Europe's Largest Renewable Energy Fund Will Only Invest in Wind and Small Hydro

May 22, 2012 at 17:57 | Environmental Finance

Europe’s largest renewable energy infrastructure fund is only investing in projects that are closest to being viable without government support, according to the fund’s manager.“People still want clean…

Do Anti-Dumping Duties on China PV Panels Make Any Sense?

May 21, 2012 at 14:13 | Gary Hunt

“Low Prices, Always Low Prices” that is the tag line of one of the world’s largest retailers. That may be why Wal-Mart is one of the world’s largest retailers. But…

US States start to Battle it out to Win the Eye of the Algae Industry

May 17, 2012 at 17:31 | Brian Westenhaus

Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a pair of bills recognizing so-called “algaculture” following passage in the Arizona state legislature that will see the Grand Canyon State encourage and…

The Top 10 Green Energy Stories Today

May 16, 2012 at 18:09 | Juan Cole

1. The Department of the Interior has given the green light to a power transmission line that is intended to bring power from Google, Inc.- backed offshore wind farms…

Japan Shuts Down Last Nuclear Plant - What Now?

May 11, 2012 at 09:25 | John Daly

On 5 May Hokkaido Electric Power shut down the No. 3 reactor at the utility's Tomari Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the Hokkaido village of Tomari, the last of Japan’s…

Proof that the Solar Industry is on the Brink of a Huge Expansion

May 11, 2012 at 09:11 | Climate Progress

A new report from the prominent global consulting firm McKinsey shows why solar photovoltaics have hit a tipping point.As the economics of solar PV continue to improve…

The US Solar Revolution: Sometimes Smaller is Bigger

May 09, 2012 at 19:28 | Charles Kennedy

Solar, wind and geothermal power sources accounted for only around 1.5 percent of US energy consumption last year, but a number of factors are merging to make solar a more…

Overcoming the Impossible: Developing Nuclear Fusion

May 08, 2012 at 19:47 | Brian Westenhaus

The ITER project, an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor,  seeks to do the possible with impractical tools. There is no doubt that humanity can accomplish fusion in a…

South Africa to use Oceanic Currents for 24/7 Uninterrupted Renewable Energy

May 07, 2012 at 23:46 | John Daly

Renewable power faces a number of hurdles in gaining wide-scale acceptance.The first is the world’s commitment to “traditional” power sources, in which trillions of dollars have been invested…

Uranium Stocks are Massively Undervalued

May 04, 2012 at 19:27 | Simit Patel

Sell-offs in today’s increasingly volatile markets can be lethal to those psychologically and financially not prepared for such fluctuations, but for the prepared, it is simply more than an opportunity…

A Wealth of New Uranium Deposits Discovered around the World

May 03, 2012 at 12:51 | Brian Westenhaus

The Athabasca basin of Canada hosts some of the world’s largest and highest-grade uranium mines of similar aged rocks. Last week Fission Energy Corp. and its 50% joint venture…

Solar Cells that can be Painted or Printed Onto Materials

May 01, 2012 at 22:49 | Brian Westenhaus

Scientists at USC think they have the material made of nanocrystals that could be painted on surfaces for making a solar cell. If the team gets to commercial market, the…

New Nanotechnology That Turns Windows Into Transparent Solar Panels

May 01, 2012 at 22:45 | Energy Digital

Our modern world is consuming energy at insatiable rates. The high-tech complexity of contemporary society has created a demand for energy resources that are both easily accessible and infinitely available,…

Sky Falls for Wind Energy

Apr 30, 2012 at 17:05 | Daniel J. Graeber

A study featured in the journal Nature suggests that the latest victim of the green-versus-clean debate is the wind turbine. Researchers looking at wind farms in Texas found that overnight…

High Voltage Politics, Life and Times of the Electric Car

Apr 30, 2012 at 17:02 | Charles Kennedy

Expensive to buy, cheaper to operate and of course friendlier to the environment, the electric car is traveling a bumpy road globally, with the added barrier of a bit of…

Mother Nature Mugs California's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Apr 30, 2012 at 16:54 | John Daly

On 11 March 2011 TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power plant was rattled by an offshore 9.0 on the Richter scale earthquake. The tremor subsequently generated a tsunami that effectively destroyed the…

The Un-Renewable Nature of Renewable Energy

Apr 30, 2012 at 16:49 | MasterResource

“Renewable energy” has two fundamental conceptual flaws. It’s not really renewable, and it’s not really energy.What is “Renewable”?“Renewable” in most definitions approximates to something like “naturally…

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