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Alternative Energy

Geothermal Energy: More Exciting than Media Thinks

May 17, 2013 at 14:44 | Editorial Dept

Geothermal energy is hands down THE best renewable energy avenue out there: The Earth is always generating heat, and there won’t be any “peak heat”, nor could we ever extract…

How Renewable Energy will Benefit from US Natural Gas Exports

May 15, 2013 at 16:42 | Kurt Cobb

U.S.-based industries and utilities that consume a lot of natural gas have been trying to figure out just how to respond to proposals in Congress to allow expanded natural…

Fuel Efficiency Boosted by New HydraGen Technology

May 14, 2013 at 17:20 | Charles Kennedy

Canadian-based dynaCERT Inc. is making gains with its flagship product, the HydraGen, to boost fuel efficiency for the heavy truck industry. HydraGen is an advance patent-pending electrolysis system…

Not Just Oil: The US is also Dependent on Foreign Uranium

May 14, 2013 at 16:58 | MINING.com

What most Americans don't realize is that dependence on foreign oil isn't the main obstacle to US energy autonomy. If you think America's energy supply issues begin and end with…

Two Years After Being Destroyed, Fukushima Hold Anti-Terrorism Drill

May 13, 2013 at 17:00 | John Daly

A little more than two years ago, only nuclear energy specialists had ever heard of Tokyo Electric Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex.Then, on 11 March…

2014 Expected to be a Bumper Year for Wind

May 13, 2013 at 16:55 | Science Progress

According to Bloomberg, Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. is gearing up to drop $1.9 billion on new wind farms in Iowa. The investment might build as many as…

Ireland Protests New British Nuclear Plant

May 10, 2013 at 17:59 | John Daly

To say that British-Irish relations over the past few centuries have been strained would be an understatement.Now Ireland’s An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, is pursuing a…

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam, Bad Idea?

May 08, 2013 at 17:10 | John Daly

Of the four BRIC nations, so beloved of Wall St. as the world’s economic future, only one, the Russian Federation, is a major energy exporter.India and China are…

What’s Happened to Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat?

May 08, 2013 at 16:53 | Brian Westenhaus

Yesterday Sterling D. Allan of PESN and Frank Acland of E-CatWorld conducted a one and a half hour interview with Andrea Rossi hosted by Gary Hendershot on his…

Scientists must Study the Nuclear Weak Force to Better Understand LENR

May 07, 2013 at 16:33 | Daily Energy Report

In the early part of the 20th Century physicists theorized that a mysterious force held the nucleus of an atom together.  When it was demonstrated that this force could be…

Falling Solar Costs Drive Increase in Number of Large Scale Solar Installations

May 06, 2013 at 16:33 | Juan Cole

Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal — and…

Nevada Renewable Energy – Good or Bad?

May 03, 2013 at 17:30 | John Daly

Say what you will, the energy matrix driving the U.S. economy is in flux, if for no other reason than the increasing volumes of natural gas and oil produced by…

Another EV Bites the Dust

May 03, 2013 at 17:14 | Barry Stevens

Why is Fisker Automotive’s Karma both a Failed EV and a Negative Fate?Called the “Solyndra of Electric car companies” by Bill Vlasic of the New York Times, Fisker…

Nuclear Fusion – Possible at Last?

May 02, 2013 at 17:03 | John Daly

On 26 April, the world largely yawned as a nuclear anniversary came and went.Twenty-seven years ago, the Ukrainian SSR nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded, providing a severe…

Energy Storage: The Final Barrier to Wind and Solar’s Success

May 02, 2013 at 16:55 | Robert Rapier

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel…

Verizon Prepares for $100m Renewable Energy Investment

Apr 30, 2013 at 17:40 | Charles Kennedy

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) will spend $100 million to green up its facilities with solar panels and fuel cells, putting it in the big leagues with clean energy followers like…

First Commercial Scale OTEC Plant to be Built in China

Apr 30, 2013 at 17:24 | Brian Westenhaus

Lockheed Martin has announced that it is working with Reignwood Group to develop an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot power plant off the coast of southern China.  Ocean…

Giant Concrete Spheres: New Form of Energy Storage for Offshore Wind Farms

Apr 30, 2013 at 16:57 | Charles Kennedy

Wind power has great potential, and researchers have even estimated that offshore, floating wind farms could provide as more than 20% of the world’s energy needs in the future. The…

Russian Concerns over Central Asia Threaten Kyrgyzstan Hydroelectric Plant

Apr 30, 2013 at 16:52 | Eurasianet

Last autumn, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev tried to clarify the Kremlin’s energy ambitions in Central Asia: Putin promised massive Russian investment in the…

UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat

Apr 26, 2013 at 16:40 | John Daly

Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the “Evil Empire.”Western militaries conveniently found a…

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