Alternative Energy / Renewable Energy

Jan 30, 2012 at 17:43 | John Daly

A global revolution is slowly transforming the world’s energy market, with traditional transnational fossil fuel conglomerates facing future changes that will transform their previously cozy environment, whether they like it…

Jan 26, 2012 at 17:34 | Barry Stevens

Converting Waste-to-Energy, and in particular MSW, are hot topics throughout the global landscape. The conversion process, which consists of a number of physical and complex chemical steps, serves a much…

Jan 25, 2012 at 17:49 | Tom Murphy

With the exception of tidal energy, our focus thus far has been on land-based energy sources. Meanwhile, the ocean absorbs a prodigious fraction of the Sun’s incident energy, creating thermal…

Jan 25, 2012 at 15:29 | James Burgess

Europe is the world leader in renewable energy generation, but as with all renewable energy sources they face the problem of reliability. One way of overcoming this limitation and ensuring…

Jan 22, 2012 at 19:38 | James Burgess

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first…

Jan 16, 2012 at 21:49 | John Daly

Canada represents a fascinating conundrum in North American oil production. First off, its population of 34 million represents the largest foreign oil source for its giant southern neighbour, with a…

Jan 16, 2012 at 17:29 | Dave Summers

While it may be way too early to declare a final winner in the race to find replacement renewable liquid fuels to replace the jet fuel and diesel that power…

Jan 11, 2012 at 17:03 | Gloria Gonzalez

The clean-tech sector is primed for a record-setting year of investments in 2012, following robust growth in 2011 despite difficult conditions, according to the Cleantech Group. Global clean technology venture…

Jan 10, 2012 at 17:04 | Brian Westenhaus

In the developed world where a flip of a switch or twist of a knob starts food heating the idea of gathering dung, wood or making charcoal for food preparation…

Jan 09, 2012 at 16:56 | Gloria Gonzalez

The expiration of the 1603 US cash grant programme is likely to slow but not stop the solar industry’s fast march toward grid parity, as solar costs continue to decline…

Jan 08, 2012 at 11:00 | James Burgess

2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012. In fact 2012 could be the year that renewable energy sources…

Jan 03, 2012 at 19:26 | John Daly

First, the bad news.Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas,…

Jan 01, 2012 at 20:42 | Barry Stevens

The answer is: Municipal solid waste (“MSW”) and its conversion into energy!  There are few, if any, energy technologies that can claim to be both renewable and sustainable but also…

Dec 20, 2011 at 12:47 | RFE/RL staff

Soaring fuel prices; electricity rationing; early snow -- it's enough to send people scurrying for alternative ways to heat their homes and cook their meals. In some parts of Central…

Dec 19, 2011 at 19:27 | James Burgess

Renewable energy is considered the future. The best way for us to combat climate change, survive the decline of oil and generally provide cheap, safer, secure energy. However the industry…

Dec 19, 2011 at 19:20 | MasterResource

“Solar subsidies are a placebo which is giving the general public a sense of security about our energy future and is robbing the motivation of those entrepreneurs that could actually…

Dec 12, 2011 at 07:51 | Environmental Finance

A global scarcity of rare earth metals over the next five years could be “a ticking timebomb” for renewables and clean-tech, according to consultancy PwC.Hybrid cars, rechargeable batteries…

Dec 07, 2011 at 17:43 | Tom Murphy

For me, the most delightful turn of events in the ultimate nerd-song “Particle Man” by They Might Be Giants, is that after introducing (in order of complexity) particle-man, triangle-man,…

Dec 05, 2011 at 17:51 | John Daly

Hawaiian efforts to move towards renewable energy have a powerful ally in the form of Mark Glick, chief administrator of the State Energy Office, part of the Department of Business,…

Dec 04, 2011 at 21:52 | Gary Hunt

That is the question customers are asking as their utility rates go up to pay for the cumulative cost of the aspirations of politicians and regulators. But until now the…