• 3 minutes e-car sales collapse
  • 6 minutes America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide
  • 11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
  • 2 hours GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES
  • 2 days How Far Have We Really Gotten With Alternative Energy
  • 11 days By Kellen McGovern Jones - "BlackRock Behind New TX-LA Offshore Wind Farm"
  • 12 hours If hydrogen is the answer, you're asking the wrong question
  • 7 days Solid State Lithium Battery Bank
  • 6 days Bad news for e-cars keeps coming

Alternative Energy / Renewable Energy

Solyndra Bankruptcy Could Hobble the U.S. Renewable Energy Sector

Oct 07, 2011 at 07:36 | Gloria Gonzalez

The controversy surrounding the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra could make it impossible to extend the US loan guarantee or cash grant programmes for renewable energy and may make…

What Exactly Are Green Jobs?

Oct 03, 2011 at 07:12 | MasterResource

Even if there were a usable model to analyze job creation, we are left with the problem of identifying which jobs are actually “green.”  A renewable project can result in…

America's Unrequited Love of Alternative Energy

Sep 30, 2011 at 04:08 | Llewellyn King

Like many Democrats, President Obama wants to believe -- wants desperately to believe -- in the technologies that can safely be assumed to be alternative. Most of them are used…

Germany - It’s Not Easy Being Green

Sep 28, 2011 at 04:53 | John Daly

Forty-one years ago on Sesame Street, Kermit the frog sang a plaintive song, “It’s not easy being green.” In a gesture of solidarity, perhaps he should fax the lyrics…

Creating a Clean Energy Revolution: The Arguments For and Against Carbon Taxation

Sep 26, 2011 at 04:26 | Breakthrough Institute

In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy. All Very…

EU Calling for More Green Taxes to Prepare for a Sustainable Future

Sep 26, 2011 at 04:19 | Philippa Jones

The European Commission has drawn up a “roadmap to a resource efficient Europe”, which it believes shows the way for the EU to decouple economic growth from resource use and…

Siemens Exiting the Nuclear Energy Business to Focus on Renewables

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:43 | Energy Digital

“The chapter is closed,” says Siemens CEO Peter Löscher in regard to the company’s nuclear energy business.  In response to the world’s growing concern over the safety of nuclear power,…

DOE’s Support for Clean Tech Sector Coming Under Fire Following Solyndra Failure

Sep 19, 2011 at 07:26 | Gloria Gonzalez

The collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra has raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) process for evaluating loan guarantees and its ability to…

Interest in Alternative Biofuel Sources Increasing in the U.S.

Sep 16, 2011 at 16:25 | Charles Kennedy

As researchers in the U.S. consider alternative biofuel sources beyond grain feedstocks such as corn and soybeans, everything from alligator fat to herbivore excrement is being subjected to study. Currently…

Clean Tech Investments coming under Fire – Are Success Stories Merely Spin?

Sep 16, 2011 at 08:46 | Robert Rapier

This past week PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel — who was also an early investor in Facebook — made headlines when he declared that “Cleantech is an increasingly large disaster that…

Renewable Energy Sector to Face Increasing Economic Challenges

Sep 16, 2011 at 08:38 | Gloria Gonzalez

The renewable energy sector faces growing challenges from global economic instability and expiring or diminished government support in the US and Europe, although the nuclear accident in Japan is a…

Why After Solyndra’s Failure The U.S. Must Continue to Support Clean Energy Entrepreneurs

Sep 07, 2011 at 07:42 | Breakthrough Institute

The failure of Solyndra, while unfortunate for the company, its investors and employees, is not an indictment of federal energy technology policy. Indeed, judged by its whole portfolio of investments,…

In the Aftermath of Fukushima, Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Rise to 20 Percent

Sep 06, 2011 at 08:10 | John Daly

The worldwide implications for nuclear power advocates in light of the 11 March disaster at Japan’s Daichi Fukushima nuclear complex, battered first by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami, are…

Can Religion Steer the World Towards a Greener Future?

Sep 02, 2011 at 07:40 | Green Futures

The world's faiths are global organisations with billions of followers. Ian Christie explains why it's high time they were brought into the sustainability debate. Sometime during 2011, the human population…

The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power and Renewable Sources

Sep 01, 2011 at 08:35 | Editorial Dept

There has been a lot of talk about Nuclear energy since the near meltdown after the devastating tsunami in Japan earlier this year. So, we thought it might be cool…

The Importance of Alternative Energy to the U.S. Military

Aug 31, 2011 at 07:35 | Sohbet Karbuz

Much has been written on the dependency of the US military on oil. However, most of the writings focus on the supply side of the issue and emphasize the role…

Google Releases Report Showing Clean Energy’s Impact on the Economy

Aug 31, 2011 at 07:32 | Energy Digital

Google crunches numbers to figure out how clean energy technology innovation can improve the economy and the environment. Google has been one of the biggest corporate investors into renewable and…

James Hansen: Renewable Energies are Grossly Inadequate for Our Energy Needs

Aug 25, 2011 at 08:07 | MasterResource

“Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in…

Obama's Broken Dreams of a Clean Energy Economy

Aug 24, 2011 at 07:44 | Breakthrough Institute

President Obama's strategy for economic renewal through clean energy was flawed from the start, too over-reliant on cap and trade and public works programs to retrofit buildings for energy efficiency.…

U.S. Army to Invest $7.1 Billion in Renewable Energy Projects

Aug 18, 2011 at 08:02 | Energy Digital

The U.S. Army takes energy security seriously, planning to invest $7.1 billion into private sector sourced renewable energy infrastructure on Army land. The U.S. Army is recruiting… private sector renewable…

Oilprice - The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News