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Seen that? - Strip Searches Limited in The Philippines

...ll, only if [...] Read More The Philippines Passes the Biofuels Bill at IfEnergy The Philippines finally has a Biofuel Law! Passed last Wedn...

Seen that? - The Wind Report

... The Wind Report at IfEnergy The American Wind energy Association released their 2005 Wind Industry Ranking Report: "The rankings, which includ...

Seen that? - Dealing with climate change

...n Delhi on [...] Read More Communities in Arms Against Climate Change at IfEnergy Its great to read something like this. This article says t...

Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware: Offshore Wind in the Atlantic

© phault Wind energy seems to become a bigger part of the renewable energy scene everyday. And with offshore wind gaining more attention lately, it's interesting that Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware seem to have teamed up now to promote offshore wind energy on the Atlantic Coast . ...

Seen that? - Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak

... Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak at IfEnergy The Hubbert peak theory, also known as "peak oil", analyzes the long-term supply of conventional ...

Seen that? - House Cleaning Business, Cheap Way to Start Earning Big

...ns when I need [...] Read More Your House Smells Like Mountain Breeze at IfEnergy You live in the city. Buses and cars zoom past your house....

Seen that? - Sustainable Development for the Future

...urther in the field of [...] Read More Florida and Sustainable Energy at IfEnergy Florida is one of the known US states that does not have a...

Cap & Trade 101

© James Jordan The fact that you're reading this blog at all tells me that you're probably at least a little familiar with Cap & Trade. But just in case you have problems explaining it to other people, or in case you have friends who don't know about it, VentureBeat recently published...

Ireland's New Wave Energy Project

Renewable Energy World reported this past week that Swedish power utility Vattenfall and Irish wave-energy developer Wavebob have announced plans to build a commercial-scale wave-energy project off the west coast of Ireland. Wave energy is one of three types of natural power being devel...

Seen that? - Fusion Anyone

... Fusion Anyone at IfEnergy Are we there yet? Or more exactly, is fusion power feasible yet? Well we know how to make a fusion reaction occur, the pr...

Thailand Joins the Renewable Energy Push

© Swami Stream Renewable Energy World reported last week that Thailand hosted the first Renewable Energy World Asia. At the REW Asia opening session, Dr Twarath Sutabutr of the Department for Alternate Energy and Efficiency presented some of the details of Thailand’s Renewable Energy ...

Abu Dhabi Looks to Become Alternative Energy Hub

© Panoramas GreenBeat is reporting that Abu Dhabi is preparing for a bid to become a world hub for alternative energy. Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s state-owned energy company, announced over the weekend that it will be raising between $300 and $600 million to start construction on Masdar City,...

Seen that? - Loremo on the Edge

... Loremo on the Edge at IfEnergy German Loremo AG (Munich) introduced their ultra efficient car at the 76th annual Motor Show 2006 in Geneva last mon...

Virginia Thinks About Offshore Wind Farms

The Virginian-Pilot ran a story earlier this month on the possibility that Virginia may set up offshore wind farms. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has taken his first formal step in developing offshore wind power, requesting the formation of a task force to guide the leasing of federal waters off the Virgi...

Fisker Plans to Make a Profit on Electric Cars

Electric car maker Fisker has put a date on its plans to turn a profit: 2011. Fisker Automotive, prime Tesla Motors competitor and maker of the luxury plug-in hybrid vehicle known as the Karma, has announced plans to sell 15,000 cars and apply for government funds in order to hit profitability by ...

California's Alternative Energy Bill

© mhall209 An alternative energy Bill finally passed the California state legislature. GreenBeat describes the bill. It sets as goal of seeing 33% of California's energy come from renewable sources by 2020. Opponents of the bill, SB 14, say it will require pricey construction of new ...

Artificial Trees?

I saw a fascinating article at TreeHugger the other day on the possibility of an artificial forest in the UK. Carbon-capturing artificial trees have been getting some due attention lately, and for good reason: each fake tree can suck down CO2 thousands of times faster than their leafy, organic bre...

19 Carbon Sequestration Programs See Government Funding

© SolYoung VentureBeat reported recently on the U.S. Department of Energy's announced intention to provide $27.6 million in funding for 19 different projects testing "the efficiency of underground carbon dioxide sequestration as a potential strategy for reducing greenhouse gases and...

Cutting Energy Costs

© borman818 Inc.com published an interesting little slideshow recently on ways to cut your energy costs. Most of those ways involve making some investment that pays a return in reduced energy costs. Some involve using alternative energy sources, like solar panels. I learned a few things fro...

Electric Cars May be Emission-Free, But They're Not Yet Problem-Free

BusinessWeek took a close look last week at the problems users may havwe to put up with if they buy BMW's Mini E . While they pick on BMW in the article, the problems aren't unique. Mike Graham, a Mini E lessee in New Jersey, says his house had the juice for a faster charge, but he stil...

Getting Yourself Out There on the Web - with NetworkingForPros.com

Are you on the Web? Where? A presence on the Web has quickly become an essential part of professional life in many fields. Whether you're a doctor or a dance teacher, a lawyer or a locksmith - whether it's for business or for pleasure, people find you on the Web. In a specialized field l...

Exxon: The Genetics of Algae

© Lee Nachtigal Exxon has decided to sink $600 million into algae as a source of biofuel and it is partnering with Synthetic Genomics on the issue, acording to Matter Network. The oil company's initial investment (that can be expanded) will be split between in-house studies and research b...

Can Technology Clean Up Coal?

© MoToMo About half of U.S. power comes from coal , according to CNN. And the process of burning coal for electricity accounts for about 80 percent of the country's CO2 emissions from electricity. And while wind, solar and other forms of clean renewable energy are expanding rapidly, it wil...

Hydrogen Makes Its Commercial Debut

Jetstream Wind Inc., a New Mexico energy and technology company, announced Wednesday that it plans to develop what it calls "the world's first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen power plant ." The $219 million plant would use electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energ...

T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on World's Largest Wind Farm

© jurvetson A number of sources ( BusinessWeek , the News Tribune , Forbes , Fast Company ) are covering the news that Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone pickens has thrown in the towel (for now, at least) on his efforts to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas. BusinessWeek ...

Can Wind Power Make a Profit?

© Tracy O Forbes took a look at that question this month. Forbes looks at one specific example... A windmill doesn't make economic sense, even though this poor entrepreneur is gouged 19 cents per kilowatt-hour from his utility. A 121-foot, 100-kilowatt turbine from Northern Power runs $...

The Coming Solar Revival

Forbes had an article earlier this month on SunPower and the solar energy revival it expects to see soon... This guardedly optimistic outlook came Tuesday... and follows an abysmal period in which new commercial-scale solar business has stalled due to the lack of bank funding for projects. The...

Is Algae the Real Future of Biofeul?

A piece at Renewable Energy World recently asked that question. Energy policy at the moment sets targets for biofuel use. Those targets are pretty high and only a certain amount (less than half, eventually) can come from ethanol. Where will the rest come from? Algae has emerged as a promising fe...

Wind in Virginia Gains Support

Wind energy is gaining support in Virginia's far west, according to the Associated Press . I live in an area where the proposed construction of 400-foot high wind turbines has become a contentious issue. Supporters of the region's coal industry see wind as a competitive threat. Local resi...

Batteries Get Stimulus Grants

VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadline to apply for a Grant was yesterday. From the article: Candidates for the money are required ...

The Solúcar Platform (PS20) Solar Power Tower - Now Operational in Spain

With all the focus on cars recently, solar energy seems to have moved to thirds place in the public mind, after wind energy. So when I saw this piece in Renewable Energy World I thought I'd use it to bring solar energy up front again for a moment... Abengoa Solar has started commercial operat...

No More Hydrogen Cars?

There's been a lot of nergy legislation news in the past couple of weeks. But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now: The money was stripped because the president and Steven Chu, his...

Miles Per Acre: Is Electricity Better than Ethanol?

Science Daily recently looked at the question: How can we maximize our " Miles per acre" from biomass? While it is possible to turn biomass into ethanol to burn in internal combustion engine cars, researchers writing in the online edition of the journal Science on May 7 said that co...

Small Wind: GE Is Investing

CNET reported earlier this month that GE is sinking money into wind power. But it's not the big super-turbines, it's small personal wind turbines that GE is focusing on. Southwest Windpower, which makes residential wind turbines, said on Monday it has raised $10 million from existing i...

Will Japan Subsidize Green Cars?

TreeHugger published a piece last week on the possibility rumor that Japan's government may start encouraging green cars ownership with a $3000 (300,000 yen) subsidy. The Japanese media has been reporting that the subsidies will be part of a big stimulus package that may include money for ene...

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 exists now in draft form in the U.S. House. The WWF is happy; groups like Shop Floor are unhappy. I had to laugh at one of Shop Floor's points. They agreed that the new law would create a lot of jobs, but said that so did Hurricane Katri...

Three of Spain's Cities Getting Electric Car Infrastructure

TreeHugger had a piece last week on development in Spain's move to electric cars. The pretty southern Spanish town of Seville has been chosen along with the capital Madrid and the northern hub Barcelona to implement the Movele pilot electric car infrastructure project proposed by the Spani...

The Future of Electric Car Maker Th!nk

Norwegian car maker Th!nk is in the news at the moment. Treehugger describes Th!nk as having "a long and troubled history - gone bankrupt twice, changed hands a couple of times (including a short stormy marriage with Ford) and stopped its production line late last year when the economic cr...

The Most Powerful Hybrid

I guess everybody needs a little glamour and luxury from time to time. There's no reason that alternative energy shouldn't get some... BusinessWeek has a piece this week on the debut in Geneva of Nissan's Infiniti Essence - a 600 horsepower hybrid V6 sports car. To celebrate 20 years ...

Coal and the New EPA

TreeHugger had a piece I thought was interesting earlier this month on how the Obama Administration's EPA is likely to deal with coal. Following the EPA's stance on coal-fired power plants during the final months of the Bush Administration was enough to make you dizzy: first, it stated in ...

Coming Soon: The Car Battery War

As the internal combustion engine is slowly replaced in by electric car engines, the economic balance of power in the world will shift. OPEC will be replaced (eventually) by economic powerhouses that make... car batteries. Last week BusinessWeek had a good rundown on the world of lithium ion ...

Ireland Hopes to Become Electric Car Hub

Justin Moresco had an interesting piece yesterday morning about Ireland's efforts to attract foreign investment by becoming a model for the switch to electric cars and electric car parts . The government of Prime Minister Brian Cowen originally proposed the plan back in November. As part of...

BP, Dominion Power Look to Bring Windmills to Bluefield

I attended a public hearing last night. Tazewell county , Virginia is considering an ordinance to regulate the construction of "tall structures" on ridge lines in the Central Appalachian county. BP Wind Energy and a power company called Dominion want to put 400-feet tall wind turbin...

Underway Now: World Future Energy Summit, in Abu Dhabi

TreeHugger pointed out to me yesterday that the World Future Energy Summit is underway at the moment in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Renewable energy has become big business in the UAE. The country has made a decision to start a renewable energy sector for their economy - from scrat...

Norwegian Electric Autonmaker Finds Funding

Treehugger is reporting that Norwegian automaker THINK has found the funding it needs to resume making cars. The Oslo-based company said that it had secured NOK 40 million ($5.7 million) in loans which will allow it to restructure, and could allow it to raise the permanent capital needed to re...

Qinghai Solar Power Plant Would Be World's Biggest

Venture Beat was the first source that I saw this in: plans have been announced to build a gigawatt-sized solar power station in Qinghai Province, China. If it goes through, it would be the largest solar power station on earth at the moment. The Chinese companies involved are China Technology...

Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part III

From Seeking Alpha , back in February: The Energy Bill requires that 3% of ethanol be derived from cellulosic sources by 2012, and 44% by 2022. That means, by my estimates, we'll need to produce 405 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2012 and 15.84 billion gallons in 2022.... I'd cons...

Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part II

A few days ago we talked about ethanol - about how we're stuck with corn and sugarcane based ethanol because of the huge investment that's been made in it and the desire the industry has to at least recoup that investment even if ethanol production is ultimately a bad thing for the planet...

Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part I

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 calls for the U.S. fuel market to use 100 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel in 2010, according to Justin Moresco over at Red Herring. And according to Moresco, a report published earlier this month by investment bank ThinkEquity forecasts an 80%...

China's BYD Auto Puts a Plug-in Hybrid on the Market There

While automakers in the US and Japan worry about how to cope with the global recession, one China car maker has made the great leap forward into the world of plug-in hybrids. According to Business Week , BYD Auto (a SHENZHEN -based company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ) "got a ...

Grays Harbor to Take Wind Farms Off Shore

Grays Harbor Energy announced plans this past week to take wind farms off Shore , according to Michael Lee over at Red Herring . Seattle-based Grays Harbor is looking at seven off shore US sites where both wind and wave facilities could be set up. The projects would be in waters off California,...

This blog has been retired

This blog is not active anymore. We had great fun doing and we hope you enjoyed it too. However we felt we are missing the beat a little here - so we thought let's start afresh with something new. However that might change and we have in the past reinvigorated sites after some time (2 years...

The Golden Bridge and the Power Underneath

I am very proud to have found the picture on the left. It shows the Golden Bridge in San Francisco and a powerful wave crashing against one of the berthing pillars there. It is so appropriate with what San Francisco plans to do now, which is to harness the tidal power underneath the bridge...

Russian Missile Experts Defects to RE

I used to read a lot about the cold war and the drama back in the 80s from fictional writers like Tom Clancy . I never realized it until now, but think about it for one minute. After the cold war and soldiers, agents, and even scientsts from both sides suddenly find themselves out of &quo...

Solar Cellular Phones

Have you ever experienced getting a low-battery alert at a very critical time (i.e. when you need your cellular phone to call the office, a buyer, or the wife)? Fear no more because one of the most practical gadget fit for the man (or woman) on the go has just been made commercially available. H...

Exploring US Oil

I think people who find the middle ground make the practical sense but lacks one clear thing; an understanding of urgency. Here is one middle-ground type of opinion on oil from Examiner.com. I think the position being explained is practical. The use of oil and exploration for new resources of o...

Biofuels Could Cause Oil Prices to Go Through the Roof?

Yesterday I was in a meeting with key persons who are in the know of the biofuel situation worldwide and one of the things that surpised me, during that brief luncheon was one statement. Someone said that the price of oil may increase due to biofuel use. I was floored! It is so counter-intuit...

Power from Above

This is a statement that is beyond contestation. The Vatican has recently declared that its Power is to come from Above! This week, the Vatican has decided that in line with its recent declaration of being a guiding factor of Earth's custodians, all its electrical power will have to com...

Heat to Electricity Through Sound

here is a real technological breakthrough. Waste heat to Energy Through Sound. I bet that caught your attention. This article from Psyhorg.Com describes how scientists from the University of Utah developed small devices that promises to change waste heat into electricity, perfect for wa...

Carbon Credits: A Sucker Born Every Minute

... Roden over at IfEnergy brought up the fact that his friend is into carbon credits as an investment, and is doing quite well at it. I know Al Gore would be proud. I kind of chuckled to myself know...

Americans Favor Solar

A recent survey commissioned by Sharp Electronics reports that about 90 percent of Americans want solar as new home options. This is a significant increase since last year's 79 percent. Thats a great sign that the general American public is getting sold on the idea of renewables, and more imp...

Laser Fusion

The myth of Laser Fusion may become a non-myth soon. This article from The Guardian says that a multinational project that is being led by British researchers aims to replicate how the sun (and other stars in the universe) creates energy. And this group of rocket scientists are doing it with hi...

Two Biodiesel for Europe Stories

Here are two stories on Biodiesel, one from the supplier and one from the buyer. Planet Ark reports on the European Commission ensuring an increase of biofuels use, that is up to 10 percent of all vehicle requirements by 2020. This one from PhilStar reports countries Malaysia and Indones...

Solar Canada

Canadians are getting into the act. Just this week, OptiSolar Canada which is a subsidiary of California's OptiSolar Inc. said that it will build a 40 MWe solar farm near Sarnia, Ontario beginning early next year. What a great development, especially since it will demonstrate Canada's rea...

UK: The Second Most Environmentally Attractive Country

Her Majesty, the Queen would be so happy! According to this article , the United Kingdom is the second most attractive country for investment in clean energy, according to Ernst and Young. Thanks to the boom in RE technology investments in the UK and their committment to carbon dioxide ...

"Welcome to the first solar-hydrogen residence in North America."

According to this article , that is the sign infront of Mike Strizki, a 50-year old director of residential and commerical systems for Advanced Solar Products, house. This is how the house was described: Mike Strizki's house, the house of the future, the revolutionary house that might very...

Pedal Your Clothes Clean

Once in a while I like to look at inventions and innovations of common people, yours, the guy next to you, the old lady living across the street, my nerdy officemate, you know, those folks you do stuff at home that are really marvelous. This is one from Homeless Dave which I found at GreenOption...

Stock Market Picks

This is a side issue but I got excited looking at the possible stock options . DeepMarket is a great site that features top stock picks. I see some RE firms here that you may want to consider, since the RE market is booming.

If Beer Becomes a Problem

Hell will break lose in Germany, according to this article . And why not when beer strikes very close to home? In fact, when the price of a staple commodity becomes a problem, people get threatened, which is what they will feel when they see beer prices coming up due to barley prices climbin...

Spain's New RE Regulations

I think this is very interesting since Spain is one of the leading RE countries in the world. Those of you who are looking at making the US more incentivized should see how the Spanish manage their rules. And instead of just providing you the link, I took the liberty of copying and pasting the en...