Renewables – Dec 12
WSJ: A young tinkerer builds a windmill, electrifying a nation
CERA co-founder points to opportunities in green efforts
Airborne wind turbines
Big Oil lets sun set on renewables
Electricity
The widening chasm on energy
Proponents of the House-passed energy bill have called it a “down payment” on a climate change strategy. But that “down payment” is now in jeopardy.
Energy nation – Dec 4
China releases draft energy law
Italians warned of looming energy shortfall
Vietnam to stop subsidizing oil in 2008
Wind power sets sail from crowded Germany
Renewables – Dec 3
Implications of biofuel production for US water supplies
How Africa’s desert sun can bring Europe power
Micro-wind turbines often increase CO2
Post Kyoto: the state of Denmark
Denmark prides itself of some small contribution to life after peak oil. The year 2001 brought an end to this, however. But with the November 2007 election, environmental policy has once again been put in forward gear.
Capturing the energy opportunity: creating a low-carbon economy
Energy platfrom from a liberal think tank proposing to “1) Grow our economy through the transformation to a low-carbon economy 2) Recreate a ladder of economic mobility.”
Computers and web – Nov 29
Plugging the Internet into clean power
Green computing is not an oxymoron
U.S. report warns of brownouts on overloaded Net
Renewables – Nov 28
Google hopes to undercut coal with cheap, renewable energy
Roadside solar panels new theft target
As oil soars, many turn to renewables
Interview: head of Wind Association
Efficiency – Nov 28
LA Times: Small steps, big energy savings
Dim prospects that ‘energy efficient’ will pay off: CIBC
‘Beer fridges’ present a gassy problem
Smart appliances learning to save power grid
Bringing back the clothesline
EnergyJoule power use monitor
The rich opt out
Renewables – Nov 27
Britain to build world’s biggest biomass plant
The magic of wood
Solar energy outlook 2007-2008
Solar stocks start slide
Preparing transportation for oil depletion
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
Renewables – Nov 17
Caltech’s Nate Lewis: Look to the sun
California fighting global warming with technology, greenbacks
China powers ahead on renewable energy
