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Ten years ago, I called for a programme to install solar panels on 100,000 roofs in Germany, so that we could have mass production as [...]
What did you do about it?
Ten years ago, I called for a programme to install solar panels on 100,000 roofs in Germany, so that we could have mass production as [...]
An Australian joint venture is planning to drill [...]
A year ago no one was talking about $200 oil, and now everyone in the markets is, for scary reasons. Oil prices climbed from $10 in 1999 to $95 last year without slowing [...]
The Little Beaver is what's known in the utility biz as a "peaking unit." Peaking units are the benchwarmers of the electric industry, the last-resort generators that utilities turn to when electricity use surges, like a [...]
Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal and chairman of electric car company Tesla, recently said that he believed [...]
During Budget week the federal Coalition started the race to the bottom on the public policy debate. The really frightening thing [...]
At first, we were impressed by the senator's statements in Republican primary debates about how he had actually [...]
A smarter way to achieve sustainable electricity in New Zealand was presented to the Energy Trusts of NZ conference in Wellington [...]
The world is watching a hot rocks plant with massive potential in South Australia. It is clean, renewable and quiet, writes Phil Cornford. By the end of the year, [...]
The high price of petrol today is causing discomfort among motorists. So much so that our federal [...]
King Abdaullah of Saudi Arabia
Your Majesty,
In common with [...]
A biorefinery built to produce 1.4 million gallons of ethanol a year from cellulosic biomass will open tomorrow in Jennings, [...]
Sydney appears set to record its driest May in 150 years of record keeping, after the month's best [...]
Landis+Gyr Holdings Pty Ltd., an international utility-meter company, is expected to announce Tuesday a $360 million deal to furnish Dallas utility Oncor Electric Delivery Co. with "smart" meters for three [...]
The global economy is facing the third great oil shock of recent decades. The oil price, just [...]
Along a dusty two-lane highway in California's Mojave [...]
Okay, three things will happen. First, "alternative" energy won't [...]
Perth-based Carnegie Corporation wants to [...]
Holmgren says his future scenarios will help both policy makers and activists come to [...]
Geothermal power, recognized as one of the best sources of emission-free renewable energy, has long been considered a [...]
In my post on ocean energy a few months ago I briefly mentioned a scheme by a small Australian company called BioPower to trial some tidal power and wave power technologies in Bass Strait that used "biomimicry" based design principles. 
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Airbus SAS, the world's largest commercial aircraft maker, is valued at ``less than zero'' after this [...]
Mr. Paul was supposed to be [...]
The problem is simple, there is not enough to go [...]
With prices now falling, the global rice crisis seems to be subsiding. That's thanks in part to a policy announcement by [...]
An Australian company has started to make concrete which promises to dramatically cut the carbon [...]
Kenya is focusing on developing its geothermal capacity to scale up electricity production and keep up with growing demand, the managing director of the country's biggest producer said on Thursday.
Kenya produces 128 MW of [...]
Kenneth Deffeyes, former Shell Oil geologist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, claims crude oil is too [...]
Take a little bit of soil, add some microbes, a little bit of human ingenuity [...]
Qantas and Jetstar planes have slowed their flying speed in a bid to beat soaring jet fuel costs. Jetstar has been flying more slowly since last month to conserve fuel, adding several [...]
Rural people are increasingly turning to the internet in response to [...]
Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth? If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires [...]
In recent months, companies including Spain's Abengoa SA have announced plans to build utility-scale solar thermal plants in the [...]
U.K.-based Marine Current Turbines on Wednesday announced the installation of what it claims is the world's largest tidal turbine. [...]
Exploration for geothermal energy may begin in Western Australia by the end of the year. The Government has received 64 expressions of interest since it earmarked land for exploration, including land in Pinjarra, [...]
China today, epitomized by Shenzhen's transition from mud to megacity in 30 years, represents a new way to organize society. Sometimes called "market Stalinism," it is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of [...]
A renewable energy company founded by billionaire T. Boone Pickens has placed an order for 667 wind turbines from General Electric Co. as part of a $2 billion start-up of what is slated to [...]
It seems some combination of the price falling out of the heroin market [...]
Recently noted, e-bikes are selling well in China and Vietnam. Green Car Congress relays further commentary on the e-bike market in Asia. The observations are part of a UC Davis study of E2W (Electric Two-Wheelers) in [...]
Of all the charges levelled against environmentalists, perhaps [...]
PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: Here's a question that may never have occurred to [...]
The higher up in the air you go, the faster wind travels - so naturally the further from the ground a wind-turbines gets, the more efficient it [...]
The cost of fuel, grain and fertiliser are on the rise, and so too is the rate of rural crime in Queensland. Police say fuel and stock theft on farms has [...]
19th century whaling is today one of the best examples we have [...]
Urban West [...]
Royal Dutch Shell and QatarGas plan to begin supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Dubai in the peak demand summer period from 2010 after signing deals with the emirate, [...]
It was only a couple months ago that we wrote about Torresol's plans to build 3 new solar thermal power plants in Spain (price tag: $1.24 Billion). The good news [...]
Oil at $200 a barrel: that was the warning from Goldman Sachs, [...]
Grand Designs Live, the slightly addictive t.v. show about house renovations, has named its Voters' Choice Home of the Year, 2008. Winner of the Best Conversion category, Black Sheep House went [...]
Flush with money and determined to save the [...]
Airlines are in the middle of radical service cuts. Not just increasing prices, but reducing the amount of air service to large and [...]
A POTENTIALLY vast wheat crop that could help relieve the world's food crisis is in jeopardy [...]
New ideas always take twice as long and [...]
State Trade Minister John Mickel said the NTA Group, owned by Nature Trust of Japan, recently completed construction of a factory at [...]
Molecular nitrogen (dinitrogen, N=N) makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere. It is the most unreactive diatomic species known. Interestingly, however, nitrogen is required for all [...]
For years, food policy in the Middle East and North Africa was very simple: hydrocarbon exports paid for carbohydrate imports.
Rising agricultural commodities prices and a large population [...]
Mission Biofuels Ltd says current high feedstock prices make it unviable [...]
A DEEP-GREEN fungus — best known for eating through uniforms and canvas tents during World War II — might provide a more efficient way to make biofuels such as ethanol, researchers [...]
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that majorities in 15 of 16 nations surveyed around the world [...]
There is no end in sight to the drought afflicting the Murray-Darling Basin and the big dry could become a permanent [...]
Farmers in the Indian state of Rajasthan are rediscovering the humble camel. As the cost of running gas-guzzling tractors soars, even-toed ungulates are making [...]
Animal rights group PETA recently announced a $1 million reward for the first person to make in-vitro meat (leading Bruce Sterling to dub them "People for the Ethical Treatment of Alien Lumps of Flesh).Visitors to this year’s Salone del Mobile were in for a treat when they strolled through Zona Tortona into a [...]
Crude oil may rise to between $150 and $200 a barrel within two years as growth in supply fails to keep pace with increased demand [...]
Buffett and Munger also commented on the topic of peak oil. This is the argument over whether the world is soon going to reach a peak in [...]
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Sometimes the race toward clean energy is tripped up by politics. Other times, [...]
Solar electricity is about to get much cheaper, industry analysts predict, because a shortage of the silicon used in solar panels [...]
The earth's uncertain oil reserves and dwindling freshwater supply may get all the attention, but modern [...]
Unlike conventional petroleum-based plastics, polylactic acid (PLA) plastic is mass produced by chemical synthesis using raw materials derived from corn. [...]
Shell was accused last night of being greedy and irresponsible as it came under ferocious attack from politicians and environmentalists for its decision to drop a commitment to the biggest offshore wind farm [...]
The Water + Life Museums complex in Hemet, California, has just become the first museum to break the LEED Platinum barrier, beating out the California Academy of Sciences and scores of other hopeful [...]
