Friday, November 7th, 2008
The Problem:
"Four-fifths of the growth in energy production through 1990 is expected to come from Siberia. In the European part of the USSR, the cost of producing coal is extremely high and reserves will continue to be concentrated in the European part of the USSR and in the Urals, the ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Last year was another record for investment into alternative and renewable energy, with $148.4 billion poured into the sector globally, up 60% from 2006. On top of this, total M&A transactions in the space amounted to over US$55 billion. Asset financing was the main driver for investment growth, up 68% ...
Posted in Agriculture, Batteries, Biofuels, CCS, Carbon, Climate-Change, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, algae, biomass, ethanol, green-building | No Comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
The 2017 cellulosic ethanol production potential ranges from 1.6 to 7.2 billion gallons. The growth of this capacity through 2017 is shown in the graphic above. The combination of the production subsidy plus capital cost reduction appears to be the most effective option in driving industry growth. The least effective ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Posted in Climate-Change, Concentrated-Solar, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Graphic, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Graphic, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Wind power is blowing up, especially in America. In 2007, the world connected 20,000 MW of wind power capacity to electricity grids. The U.S. claimed the lion's share with 5,243 MW of installed wind capacity, the largest amount ever added by a country in a single year, according to a ...
Posted in Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Silicon Valley, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology, law | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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Who needs corn-based ethanol when you've got mutant yeast? Nobody, apparently.
Mark Goebl, a professor of Biochemistry at Indiana University's School of Medicine, has developed a new genetically distinct strain of mutant yeast for ethanol production that would reduce or eliminate the need to use corn to make the alternative fuel.
The ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
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The following lists refer to relevant sources of information on alternative fuel vehicles and includes electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, and personal transportation vehicles, as well as the technology of fuel economy and alternative fuels. It also includes advanced autoignition and lean-burn combustion processes for improving engine fuel economy.
The challenge of ...
Posted in Biofuels, Biorefinery, Carbon, Electricity, Graphic, Green-Cars, Hydrogen, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Water, biomass, ethanol, green-technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
[singlepic=388,540,430,watermark,center]Oil well fires, some set on purpose during the Gulf War of the early 1990s, released massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
During the last days of the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein set fire to scores of oil wells in the deserts of ...
Posted in Africa, Bahrain, Concentrated-Solar, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Graphic, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Wind-Power, map | No Comments »
