National policy – Feb 25
Australia and the Export Land Model
Ireland’s oil security review
Iceland’s heated debate
Can Turkish economy survive high energy prices?
Geothermal
Renewables – Nov 13
Al Gore, Bill Joy see green economy powered by Silicon Valley
Prospectors claim stretches of ocean, hoping to harness wave energy
Geothermia revisited
US wind power installations to rise 63% in 07
Renewables – Oct 16
A carbon-negative fuel (gasification and terra preta)
High hopes for renewable power from Earth’s depths
Lovins: Global warming and peak oil are irrelevant (efficiency)
Renewables – Sept 1
Beyond wind and solar, a new generation of clean energy
Forbes on solar: the sunshine economy
Renewables & hydrogen – May 22
Energy from hot rocks- the hurdles for innovators
A who’s who of Indonesian biofuel
Biomass fuels are just one step
New process uses aluminum alloy to generate hydrogen
Renewables – Mar 15
Shell & BP plunge into the wind business
Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley
Towards Renewables in the UAE
Suburban Solar Retrofit
White House Seeks to Cut Geothermal Research Funds
Renewables – Dec 15
80 Congress members pen letter to Bush for renewables
Germany sees potential in biomass
Renewable energy can’t save consumer society
UK: Wind farms ‘are failing to generate the predicted amount of electricity’
Geothermal: Man-made tremor shakes Basel
Renewables – Aug 5
Cellulosic Ethanol: Clutching At Straws ? / MIT: Abundant power from universal geothermal energy /
China makes huge breakthrough in wind power technology / India hopes to double wind power generation by 2007
Other energy – Nov 19
Nation warms up to coal /
Australia pioneers energy From hot rocks /
EIA wind intermittancy – chipping away at the doubters /
Gas fields also deplete, but faster
Other energy headlines – 27 Sept 2005
Natural gas woes bigger than crude oil /
Business braces for dramatic hikes in NG bills /
Drive less, if you can /
Food security limits China’s biofuels /
French grain & beets for ethanol surging /
China to spend $17B on 6 hyrdro plants /
Nuclear plants planned for US Gulf states /
China: Reactors? We’ll take thirty, please /
Tim Flannery on a nuclear future /
Flannery on geothermal
A Different Era for the Alternative Energy Business
The most accessible deposits of fossil fuel are being rapidly depleted. At the same time, alternative energy sources are being viewed more and more as a worthwhile insurance policy against the risk of depending on the Middle East and other unstable regions for the bulk of the world’s oil and gas supply.