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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Analysts at the New York based Jefferies Group Inc. are telling investors that the alternative energy field is at “the very early stages of the capital cycle.” Overall trends such as global warming realization, energy security needs, and technological advances are causing there to be larger involvement from hedge funds, venture capitalists and [...]
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New look for my blog - Alternative Energy.Info
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Well, I finally got around to changing the default wordpress blog to something new. I hope you like it. I’m probably going to be playing around with the Wordpress Theme Editor over the next couple of days, so you might see more changes. I would appreciate any feedback you might [...]
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Walmart Meets Alternative Energy
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007I’ve linked to several previous articles about Walmart’s push into alternative energy. From promoting and discounting compact flourescent lightbulbs to opening up several experimental stores powered by wind, sun, and biofuel, Walmart has been a very visible proponent and user of alternative and renewable energy. C|Net has a short article describing [...]
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SeekingAlpha - Alternative Energy - 2006 in Review
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007SeekingAlpha is a stock market opinion site - yesterday they published a list of the top 11 important things about alternative energy for 2006. From “sizzling solar”, to “25X’25″, to “Oil Addiction”, to the “Stern Report”, Neal Dikeman writes about the most important trends to emerge in alternative energy in 2006. You [...]
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Bush Pledges to Work With Democrats in 2007 to Cut Oil Imports
Thursday, December 21st, 2006From Bloomberg Dec 20th - President Bush pledged to work with Democrats in 2007 to spend more to develop other sources of fuel. In the President’s State of the Union address in 2006, Bush asked Congress for a 22% increase in research spending for solar, wind, nuclear, ethanol, and hydrogen power. [...]
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Wave Power - SyncWave Energy Inc. cuts cost of Ocean Wave Energy
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006In a press release published today, SyncWave Energy claims that it has developed something called the SyncWave Power Resonator, a “radically new approach to capturing the energy in Ocean Waves with frequency based technology. SyncWave is a free-floating, self-reacting point-absorber system that is expected to dramatically improve the economics of wave energy.” [...]
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Newest Alternative Energy - Portugal’s Wave Power Plant
Monday, October 9th, 2006Saw this on digg.com - originally from www.aboutmyplanet.com
“This is quite an amazing breakthrough in power generation. It’s safe, easy to deploy, and not harmful to the environment. A Scottish company will deploy sausage-shaped tubes off the coast Portugal to create the world ’s first commercial wave power plant, providing electricity to 1,500 homes in [...]
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More on Tidal Power - from MSNBC.com
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006I had linked to a couple of articles previously on some tidal power projects overseas. Here’s a new one from MSNBC.com - the technology is being compared to wind power 20 years ago - lots more work needs to be done.
“Maine has five preliminary proposals from the Piscataqua River that divides Maine and [...]
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World Bank urges increased funding for Clean Energy projects
Monday, June 12th, 2006The World Bank is stating that developing countries will invest some $300 billion each year for the next 25 years to meet their clean energy needs. They want to develop some new types of loans and grants that would help these developing countries make their power generations cleaner and more efficient. A report [...]
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From PubliusPundit.com - OPEC Arabs laugh their heads off at Hugo Chavez
Friday, June 2nd, 2006Very interesting article and comments on the latest antics of Hugo Chavez. The Mideast opec members understand that $70 a barrel oil may indeed be a prelude to $18 a barrel oil, as oil importing countries wise up and start reducing demand through many different ways (many of which are reported in this [...]
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