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America Is Growing Wary of the Renewable Energy Boom

America Is Growing Wary of the Renewable Energy Boom

The US renewable energy sector…

Gold Recycling Goes Green with Biodiesel Innovation

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Alternative Energy

Despite Negative Press Renewable Energy Revenues Rapidly Expand in 2011

Mar 18, 2012 at 09:24 | Juan Cole

Solar, wind and biofuels saw global revenue expand by 31% in 2011. With all the negative hype put out by Big Oil and its acolytes, you’d have thought the…

IEA Recognizes Potential of Renewable Energy Sector

Mar 17, 2012 at 08:35 | John Daly

For many investors, renewable energy remains a somewhat forbidding topic.What seems to be the best sure-fire bet? Solar? Wind? Geothermal? Tidal? Biomass?Now the redoubtable International Energy…

The Strange Case of U.S. Hydropower Legislation

Mar 15, 2012 at 18:24 | Daniel J. Graeber

A measure is on its way to the U.S. Senate that proposes easing some regulations for hydroelectric dams in western states. The bill passed easily through the Republican House of…

Successful Cultivation of Seaweed Could be Biofuels Greatest Hope

Mar 11, 2012 at 11:50 | Brian Westenhaus

The numbers for productivity of seaweed are stunning compared to everything other than algae on land. The problem is the cultivation, growing the preferred species, harvesting it and getting it…

Have MIT Researchers Cracked Renewable Energy Bottleneck?

Mar 10, 2012 at 21:55 | John Daly

Amidst soaring oil prices, renewable energy advocates have two eyes of the needle to pass through. The first is that their kilowatt hour of electricity production is currently higher than…

Australia's New $10 Billion Clean Energy Finance Corp. - Benefit or Boondoggle?

Mar 08, 2012 at 16:57 | John Daly

On 7 March the government of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that Sydney would house the country’s new Clean Energy Finance Corp., announced in 2011 as part of…

Mozambique Goes Green, Blindsides International Mining Interests

Mar 06, 2012 at 18:12 | John Daly

It’s hard not to be downcast when reading much of the news from Africa, ravaged as it is by wars, hunger, poverty, famine and rapacious Western companies intent on exploiting…

Brazil Look to Benefit from US Renewable Fuel Standard Mandates

Mar 06, 2012 at 17:02 | Environmental Finance

US rules on ethanol usage will favour Brazilian cane sugar producers and could lead to a surge in imports in the coming years, according to a research note from Rabobank…

Europe Maps Africa's Renewable Energy Potential

Mar 05, 2012 at 17:53 | John Daly

While foreign investors drool over Africa’s hydrocarbon reserves, the Dark Continent also has vast reserves of largely untapped renewable energy, from the Magreb’s immense solar potential to Africa’s mighty rivers.

Scottish Politician Casts Skeptical Eye on Renewable Energy

Mar 04, 2012 at 10:59 | John Daly

While most Western politicians remain enthralled by events unfolding in the Middle East during the Arab spring that unexpectedly blossomed a year ago, an equally dramatic political tectonic shift is…

Renewable Energy Investors Should Consider - Romania

Mar 03, 2012 at 13:01 | John Daly

The European Union has been hammered by the global recession that began in 2008. The recession has bit particularly hard into the EU’s newest members, the Central and Eastern European…

South Africa Strides Towards Nuclear Future - Maybe

Mar 01, 2012 at 20:32 | John Daly

While the 11 March 2011 nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima has caused a lot of soul searching among many countries with civilian nuclear energy programs, the picture changes when it comes…

New Battery to Revolutionise the EV Market

Mar 01, 2012 at 17:29 | Charles Kennedy

The biggest obstacles to mass production of electric vehicles and their popularity amongst the public are the cost, the range and their safety in collisions. All these obstacles are heavily…

Hopes Build for Thorium Nuclear Energy

Feb 29, 2012 at 17:37 | Professor Chris Rhodes

There is much written to the effect that thorium might prove a more viable nuclear fuel, and an energy industry based upon it, than the current uranium-based process which serves…

Another Fukushima Casualty - Japan's Fast Breeder Reactor Program

Feb 27, 2012 at 17:15 | John Daly

The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that effectively destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daichi complex have claimed another victim, Japan’s fast breeder reactor program. Fukushima’s effect…

Which Alternative Energies will Lead us into the Future?

Feb 27, 2012 at 17:02 | Tom Murphy

When I first approached the topic of societal energy in 2004, I became aware for the first time that our energy future was not in the bag, and proceeded to…

The Darker Reality of India’s Nuclear Power Goals

Feb 26, 2012 at 17:16 | John Daly

India is betting heavily on nuclear power to meet its surging energy needs. While India currently has six nuclear power plants (NPPs) with 20 reactors generating 4,780 megawatts, seven other…

Norway Hopes to Develop Thorium Nuclear Power

Feb 26, 2012 at 16:53 | Professor Chris Rhodes

Norway holds a resource of 170,000 tonnes of thorium, which amounts to 15% of the world’s total of 1.2 million tonnes. There is far more thorium than that within the…

Amid Rising Global Interest in Renewable Energy, Tidal Power to Surge?

Feb 25, 2012 at 12:36 | John Daly

Amid rising global concerns following Japan’s disastrous 11 March 2011 nuclear catastrophe at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex and surging oil prices, renewable energy is receiving increased attention from investors.…

Germany's Rising Cost of Going Green

Feb 25, 2012 at 12:12 | John Daly

On 30 May 2011, in the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster two months earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an "energy revolution" and that Germany would close all of…

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