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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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General Electric’s Ecomagination
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006From Barron’s Online via SmartMoney comes an article written by the Chairman and CEO of General Electric. Here’s what Jeff Immelt calls Ecomagination - “Ecomagination was designed to develop new technologies to meet customers’ needs in an increasingly energy- and carbon-constrained world. It came from our belief that we can support our customers [...]
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From CNN.com - Quest for energy alternatives steps up
Monday, May 29th, 2006Big article today on CNN.com - describing many of the various alternative energy research programs going on today.
Here’s a snippet - ‘”A lot of people in government who ridiculed energy conservation and alternative energies … are now investors,” said Al-Hallaj. “The people who are funding these projects are the same ones who said, ‘Drill and [...]
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Old Theory May Provide Energy System for More Fuel-Efficient Cars
Monday, May 22nd, 2006Now this is interesting. Researchers at MIT are exploring thermophotovoltaic engines, which would ” burn a little fuel to create super-bright light. Efficient photo diodes (which are similar to solar cells) would then harvest the energy and send the electricity off to run the various lighting, electrical and electronic systems in the car.”
Now this [...]
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WisBusiness: State Engineer Confident Lithium-Ion Batteries Will Dominate Hybrid Vehicle Market
Friday, May 12th, 2006Lithium-Ion batteries are lighter than the nickel-metal-hydride batteries currently used by hybrids, allowing for more power per pound. An interview with Mike Andrews of Johnson Controls by Brian E. Clark - WisBusiness.com. Full article here
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Alternative energy index to launch
Saturday, May 6th, 2006Financial Time
By Richard Beales in New York
Fri May 5, 5:45 PM ET
A new index tracking the performance of a portfolio of US alternative energy stocks is set to be launched on Friday, among the first to focus on the relatively young and fast-growing sector.
The launch comes as high oil prices, geopolitical uncertainty and worries [...]
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Portugal experiments with different alternative energy sources
Thursday, May 4th, 2006From www.practicalenvironmentalist.com
May 4,2006
“In a farming region 125 miles southeast of Lisbon, General Electric’s GE Energy Financial Services unit is teaming up with PowerLight, a Berkeley (Calif.)-based solar-electric equipment maker, to build the world’s largest photovoltaic-generation project. The $75 million project, announced on Apr. 27, calls for construction of an 11-megawatt powerplant that will start [...]
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