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Are EV's Ready to Meet Society's Demands?

Dec 28, 2012 at 18:13 | Barry Stevens

What has not been said of Electric Vehicles? A Google search of “EV” results in 71,900,000 hits. Talk of hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and all-electric…

Replacing Fossil Fuels with Renewables - Part 1

Dec 19, 2012 at 16:59 | Barry Stevens

Economic Growth! Energy independence! Climate Change! There are countless arguments for moving beyond fossil fuels, for world energy needs. Unfortunately, many hurdles must be overcome before we can feasibly count…

The Renewable Energy Illusion

Dec 10, 2012 at 17:09 | Ed Dolan

Are solar, wind, and other alternatives the magic bullets that will solve the world’s environmental and energy problems? Take a closer look, says Ozzie Zehner in Green Illusions. Zehner…

BP to Use Desalinated Water to Enhance Oil Extraction Rates

Dec 03, 2012 at 16:44 | Professor Chris Rhodes

B.P. intends to use a desalination plant to reduce the salt content of seawater so that it can more effectively flush oil from the surfaces of the rock reservoirs…

GM Experiences Record Sales for Eco-Friendly Cars

Nov 29, 2012 at 16:43 | Dian L. Chu

General Motors’s eco-friendly vehicles are becoming good friends with American drivers. GM saw an impressive 10 percent increase in sales in August 2012, Auto World News and Inside Line…

Energy Policy in a Renewable Future

Nov 28, 2012 at 16:27 | Gregor Macdonald

Flood myths are common to human culture. Swollen rivers, tidal storms, and tsunamis make their appearance frequently in literature. But Hurricane Sandy, which has drawn newly etched high-water marks on…

Don't Fall for the Hype - China's Renewables Sector is in Disarray

Nov 22, 2012 at 17:18 | Joao Peixe

In its latest ‘Five Year Plan’, China committed $290 billion to clean energy investments, with the aim of generating 20% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2015.

New Technology could Double the Efficiency of Wave Energy Systems

Nov 21, 2012 at 17:23 | Green Futures

Wave energy developers have long had their eye on the UK’s south-west coastline, particularly northern Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. It faces the powerful Atlantic swell and has been earmarked…

Google Goes on Renewable Energy Shopping Spree

Nov 19, 2012 at 12:40 | Charles Kennedy

Google is a giant consumer of energy, but it also sees into the future. That’s why it’s pursuing investments in renewable energy and is now approaching the $1 billion investment…

Report Suggests Renewables Could Generate 85% of Australia's Electricity by 2050

Nov 15, 2012 at 17:04 | EcoSeed

Renewable energy sources in Australia could account for 40 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2035 and as much as 85 percent by 2050, a recently released energy white…

Could Electric Cars Make the Middle East Geopolitically Irrelevant?

Nov 13, 2012 at 17:30 | Juan Cole

Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day of oil production comes out…

Leading U.S. Oil Supplier Mexico to Embrace Renewable Energy?

Nov 09, 2012 at 17:47 | John Daly

When two of the leading oil exporters to the U.S. begin considering embracing renewable power, it is a development that all but the most ardent fossil fuel advocates should notice.

Rossi's Investors Talk about the Progress of his E-Cat

Nov 07, 2012 at 17:29 | Brian Westenhaus

The first folks to put up money for the Andrea Rossi E-Cat are the territorial distributors.  Whatever any of us might think, these folks have the wherewithal and fortitude to…

Elections and Electrons

Nov 05, 2012 at 17:35 | Dave Zgodzinski

The election on Tuesday could shape the deployment of renewable energy in the US for the next several years. It’s peculiar that renewable energy has become a sharp point of…

Hurricane Sandy Highlights the Need to Move to Renewable Energy Sources

Nov 02, 2012 at 19:03 | Post Carbon

Somewhere in the midst of watching the Weather Channel's reporting on the approach of Superstorm Sandy, I was struck by the lack of meteorologists saying anything about what was behind…

The U.S.-EU Green Energy Divide

Oct 26, 2012 at 17:57 | Daniel J. Graeber

A report backed by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council finds the European Union could generate trillions of dollars in fuel savings by looking beyond goals mandated for 2020.…

Ocean Power the Ignored Alternative

Oct 24, 2012 at 17:23 | Llewellyn King

DUBLIN -- Call it the joy of engineering.There is such a thing, and it is at its peak when engineers face a challenge unfettered by politics or marketing.…

Saudi Arabia, World's Leading Oil Producer, to go "Green" at Home?

Oct 23, 2012 at 17:48 | John Daly

Renewable energy, currently a Republican object of derision and attack on the Obama administration in next month’s U.S. presidential election, may have found a most unlikely ally.Saudi Arabia.

Nightmare on Electric Vehicle Street

Oct 23, 2012 at 17:44 | Dave Zgodzinski

Halloween starts earlier and earlier every year. Cobwebs on restaurant doorways, skulls on bank counters, when it’s still weeks away.  Evidently there are plenty of inner ghouls with lots of…

US Army's Ambitious Renewable Energy Strategy

Oct 15, 2012 at 17:26 | Energy Digital

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has set forth some pretty aggressive plans to transition out of its dependence on foreign fossil fuels into a cleaner, more efficiently powered future.…

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