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Life After Oil - A Look at the Latest Clean Technology Developments

Feb 23, 2012 at 18:03 | Post Carbon

Gasoline prices in the U.S. are off on another tear. The national average just went by $3.57 for regular and due to a little problem of several major refineries that…

Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Not Long to Wait Now

Feb 23, 2012 at 17:57 | Metal Miner

Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing for the cost structure of…

DOE no Longer Able to Fund Clean Technology Ventures after Budget Cuts

Feb 23, 2012 at 17:42 | Gloria Gonzalez

The US Department of Energy's (DOE) days as a financier of clean technologies are over thanks to the Solyndra backlash, but budget cuts would have prevented the department from functioning…

Rwanda Seeks $1 Billion Geothermal Energy Investment

Feb 20, 2012 at 17:37 | John Daly

Among African nations, foreign observers can only cheer on Rwanda’s progress as it recovers from Africa’s most brutal civil conflict after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC). A vicious civil…

German Solar Power Covers Energy Deficit of France's Nuclear Sector

Feb 20, 2012 at 17:35 | Peter Sinclair

Remember last year when Germany decided to speed up its phasing out of nuclear power and switch to clean energy and everyone (not in the clean energy industry) got freaked…

The Future of Aviation Biofuels

Feb 20, 2012 at 17:30 | Biofuels Digest

In New York, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that jatropha-based fuels were the near-term candidate as sustainable aviation fuels available at prices competitive with conventional jet fuel. The BNEF research…

Why Algal Biofuels May Never Hold the Key to the Future

Feb 19, 2012 at 11:59 | Professor Chris Rhodes

The depletion of world rock phosphate reserves will restrict the amount of food that can be grown, a situation that can only be compounded by the production of biofuels, including…

Biomass: Just Because it's Green Doesn't Mean it's Clean

Feb 16, 2012 at 18:04 | Daniel J. Graeber

Florida residents last year filed a legal challenge against a company that was planning to build a biomass incinerator in the Florida Panhandle. They complained the incinerator project was a…

Independent Analysis Proves the Effectiveness of Federal Loan Guarantees

Feb 16, 2012 at 17:45 | Science Progress

Take a deep breath, because what I’m about to tell you may be shocking: Federal loan guarantees for energy projects have been successful, cost-effective investments—contrary to what some conservatives insist…

How the U.S. Can Produce 36 Billion Gallons of Biofuels Annually

Feb 15, 2012 at 16:18 | Brian Westenhaus

Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from…

French Nuclear Anxieties Soar After Fukushima

Feb 13, 2012 at 18:01 | John Daly

France began developing a massive nuclear energy program with minimal public debate after the first oil crisis in 1974 and continued to support nuclear power even after the 1986 Soviet…

Wind Industry Starts to Panic as Tax Credits Come to an End

Feb 13, 2012 at 17:56 | MasterResource

If you haven’t heard from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), you probably will. Ominous, scary ads are running nationwide warning of the crushing blow to American jobs if Congress…

Solar Insanity: Why is Obama Obsessed with Solar Energy?

Feb 12, 2012 at 19:59 | Daniel J. Graeber

The U.S. Energy Department is throwing a lot of money at solar power recently, with California seemingly getting the bulk of the federal money. President Obama last year set some…

Green Energy's Positive Impact on the World's Poor

Feb 09, 2012 at 16:52 | Juan Cole

Renewable energy is often thought of as an initiative of advanced, sane countries such as Portugal and Germany. But there is another arena where green energy is making an impact–…

Poland Gears Up to Build First Nuclear Power Plant

Feb 09, 2012 at 16:47 | John Daly

Among the few "gifts" not forced upon Poland during its more than four decades as a Soviet satellite state was a nuclear power plant (NPP). But now, given the European…

Global Wind Power Capacity up 21% in 2011

Feb 09, 2012 at 10:06 | James Burgess

On Tuesday the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released statistics that claim a total of over 41 gigawatts of new wind power were installed around the world in 2011. This…

Is a Solar Energy Revolution Just Around the Corner?

Feb 07, 2012 at 12:27 | James Burgess

India’s “Solar Mission” to install 20,000MW of solar power by 2022 has recently had a boost following the news that electricity from solar power is now cheaper than that produced…

Nuclear Fusion: The Power Source of the Future...the Far Off Future

Feb 01, 2012 at 17:04 | Tom Murphy

Ah, fusion. Long promised, both on Do the Math and in real life, fusion is regarded as the ultimate power source—the holy grail—the “arrival” of the human species. Talk of…

Forget Wind Turbines - a Completely New Type of Wind Farm is in Development

Feb 01, 2012 at 16:52 | Energy Digital

A design firm from New York, Atelier DNA, has developed a concept that uses cattail like stalks instead of traditional turbine blades for harnessing the power of wind. Planned for…

New Technique Discovered to Help Harvest Algae

Feb 01, 2012 at 16:39 | Brian Westenhaus

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing…

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