08/Jul 2008 | Consumer Reports asks "Who is to blame for high gas prices?" | A recent survey conducted by Consumer Reports says that motorists are feeling the pain at the pump, and it is impacting their lifestyles and shaping future car buying habits. The "Auto Pulse" survey r... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Exide for Safe and Eco-friendly Marine Batteries | Experts recommend boat owners whatever the shape, size, capacity or purpose of a vessel do not make the mistake of using a car battery. It simply isn t built to withstand the vibrations and shock... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | I shall begin with you Factually Speaking | I shall reiterate, once again--- Crystal clearly my agenda speaks: Let`s ALL convince Congressman Lampson to debate Olson! We should ALL be aware accordingly that his staff watches our threads. So ple... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Ener-G wins landfill gas-electricity generation contracts in Hungary | UK-based sustainable energy technology company Ener-G has won three contracts to generate renewable electricity from landfill gas sites in Hungary. UK electricity: energy suppliers need flexible prici... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Huaneng Power announces on-grid tariff adjustments at Chinese power plants | Huaneng Power International has announced adjustments to on-grid tariffs at its power plants, pursuant to a notice issued by the National Development and Reform Commission of China, which decided to a... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Posse, To answer your questions. #1 To understand where the power will | Islands News What do YOU think about these stories? You can add your thoughts on this story by leaving a comment below. Comfort Cuisine Prepared good old fashioned home cooked meals with the finest in... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | This Time the Sky Really Is Falling | Philip Annetta As the West continues to declaim its moral superiority, Philip Annetta explores a few uncomfortable facts about mass graves in Korea Read the full article. Garnaut's draft report has a... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | McCain and Veterans | 11:49 AM New reaction from U. officials over the Iraqi government calls for the development of a timetable for withdrawal of U. troops from Iraq: "We want to withdraw, we will withdraw,'' State Depart... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | SPG Solar Announces Largest Customer-Owned Solar Energy System | SPG Solar, Inc., The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo (PEP), and Salt River Project (SRP) Earthwise Solar announce the largest solar energy initiative in Arizona at the Gatorade manufacturing a... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | A deal on climate change - but then the backlash | Anti-corruption groups say decision to stop Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE arms deals was illegal Comments (0) . US signs up to new global deal to reduce carbon emissions by 50% but emer... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Devil In The Details: A Look At India s National Action Plan On Climate Change | 1 ], which outlines the government s strategy and goals with respect to energy, climate change adaption, climate change mitigation, and resource management. The plan comprises eight key areas, or Nati... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Merrill Lynch: Emerging Market Infrastructure Spending Will Surge 80% in the Next Three Years | Former Oilman T. Boone Pickens Taps Wind Power, Natural Gas to Replace Foreign Oil Jul 08, 2008 08:25 PM. American Stock Exchange Lists Merrill Lynch's STEP Income Securities Linked to Freeport-McMoRa... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Chinese coal mines' safety record improves in 1H 2008 | China to further intensify efforts to ensure work safety . Fewer accidents and deaths but work safety still a worry. SHENYANG -- China's top work safety official said on Tuesday that the death toll fo... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | T. Boone Pickens launches renewable PR push | Marketing , Media , Wind , oil Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens wants to reduce foreign oil dependency by more than a third, and he s likely to get even more rich if his plans work. Pickens said Tuesday he... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Texas oilman T Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind | USA Today -- SWEETWATER, Texas Get ready, America, T. The legendary Texas oilman, corporate raider, shareholder-rights crusader, philanthropist and deep-pocketed moneyman for conservative politician... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | The hidden price you pay for energy | Consumer Reports -- Yes, we re shelling out more at the pump and paying ever-higher cooling and heating bills. But those prices aren t anywhere close to what we actually pay. government supports the o... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | How about mobile carbon capture to feed algae for biodiesel? | Three friends from North Wales were trying to come up with a way to use carbon dioxide to help grow algae to feed a fish farm and may have stumbled across a breakthrough that could clean up greenhouse... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Even more important than solar, which much be pushed as you recommend, is the immediate imperative for building non-fossil fuel burning power | SDGE Should Push Rooftop Solar Program, Says City Attorney, Noting Utility's Lagging Response to State Clean Energy Mandates . San Diego Gas & Electric should concentrate on in-area strategies for pr... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Devilslaugh Portfolio 1 | Half my stocks I picked to be large cap stable companies I hope will provide me with steady gains, and half are plays I'm trying to pick to play on alternative energy in some form, even if its only 20... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Readers Homework - Do Your Pickens | CNBC, Good Morning America, USA Today - and since our leadership is ignoring the problem . err solving the problem by suing OPEC and proposing gas tax holidays - he has launched his own website The ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | ENERGY: Regulators presented with Del. wind power project | DOVER A proposal to build the nation s first offshore wind farm off the Delaware coast is scheduled to be considered by state regulators later this month. Members of the Public Service Commission w... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | South Bethany adopts 'bare-bones budget' | As concerns about municipal revenues continue to peak over a sluggish real estate market and proposed House Bill 111, South Bethany officials adopted on April 13 what Councilwoman Bonnie Lambertson ca... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | MI5 boosts its anti-spy activities | Energy policies said to be focus for Russia and China Litvinenko's wife praises Brown for 'standing firm'. The security service MI5 is building up its counter-espionage arm against Russian and other... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Sachs Education | Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: saving the planet and all of us who call it home. Co... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Toil Conservation | Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to waste we go. Nope, those aren't the lyrics the Disney dwarves belted out en route to the daily grind, but in today's world they're right on the money. Most skyscrapers, offic... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Woman Canoes To Send Message About Ocean Health | Margo Pellegrino is a New Jersey mother of two and she's spending part of her summer in a canoe. She stopped in Baltimore Tuesday as part of her journey. Ron Matz reports she's carrying a message in a... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Chevy Volt's gas tank gets downsized | Posted Jul 8th 2008 at 7:10PM by Sebastian Blanco Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Chevrolet , Green Daily . At the big unveiling of the Chevy Volt , GM said the vehicle would be able to hold 12 g... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Solar Energy Industry Booming in Nevada | 12:01 pm EST Nevada , it s not just for gamblers anymore. The Silver State is seeing an industry boom the likes of which it hasn t experienced since the growth of its gambling industry starting in the... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Cabinet to Use Gas Revenues for Sustanaible Energy Investments | THE HAGUE, 19/06/08 - The Fund for Strengthening the Economic Structure (FES), which is fed by natural gas revenues, will in future be used for renewable energy. Forty percent of natural gas revenues ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Vectren Expects Second Quarter Earnings Shortfall and Updates 2008 Earnings Guidance | Vectren Corporation (NYSE: VVC) today stated it expects second quarter 2008 earnings to be below analyst estimates as a result of lower nonutility results. The utility group's second quarter results a... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | "Pelosi to Bush: Turn on the tap" | Matthew Hay Brown Three months ago, congressional Democrats began pressing President Bush to halt new shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Today, with gasoline prices still climbing, House Sp... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Pelosi to Bush: Draw Down Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Increase Supply, Reduce Energy Prices | WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter to President Bush today urging him to use his authority to draw down a limited portion of the oil held in ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | RNC: 'balance' = a climate in crisis; Senate GOP: 'balance' = climate-destroying shale | When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said , in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." The Republican National Committee just launched an ad called, " B... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Environmental Consequences of Livestock | Editor close Author: Editor Name : Kathee Austin Email: editor@evliving.About: Kathee Austin is principal in a number of successful investment, marketing, media, publishing and technology related bus... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Cleantech investments hit a record high | Funding heats up for solar thermal. Second quarter venture investments in North America, Europe, China and India total $2 billion across 96 companies. Cash continues to flow into cleantech, with vent... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | BAE 273.1m contract ... UBS licence ... Georgica down | Economics House prices in May were 3.7 per cent higher than in May last year and were down from a 4.9 per cent rise in April, figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government showed. N... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Intelligent Energy Raises $13.6 Million From Recent Round Of Private Funding | July 8, 2008 Intelligent Energy announced that it has raised $13. The funds will be used to provide for the company s growth plans as it moves towards commercialization of what it describes as its cle... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Former Texas Oilman Pursues World's Largest Wind Farm | Oil was the past, wind is the future. Boone Pickens, who is investing $10 billion to build the world's largest wind farm near Pampa, Texas. General Electric (GE) announced on May 15 that it has recei... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Malaysia sows the seed of a better life ) | Malaysia is blessed to have oil below the sea and onshore. Both crude and palm oil are trading at record-high prices, and contributing significantly to the economy. Business Times interviews Malaysian... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | The challenge of change | Paper. With global carbon galloping, you can neither negotiate nor argue with Gaia. We need a paradigm shift in the way we perceive development. The just released Prime Minister s National Action Pla... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens turning to wind power and natural gas | Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte looking great in Men's Journal. Boone Pickens turning to wind power and natural gas . New study: Congress should repeal "don't ask, don't tell". Boon Pickens has made hi... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Sustainable Ethanol | The blogs here talk about the price of gas or the use of alternative fuels and methods to save money. I thought I would bring one of my books I did a review on to here. This book is by Prairie Oak Pub... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Pickens introduces "The Plan" to kick the US oil habit | Forget the Department of Energy's 2030 plan. Boone Pickens says that we can accomplish 20% wind power in a matter of 10 years . It's a good thing too, because according to him, the US is on a collisio... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Dems retreat on energy, wait for the wind | Democrats in Congress promised to make energy policy a high priority when they returned after the Independence Day break. Instead, they have quietly scrubbed the schedule of any votes on their energy ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Oilman wants more emphasis on alternative energy | Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens opened an advertising campaign Tuesday in an attempt to bring more focus to solving the nation's energy crisis. The former wildcatter, who now heads the Dallas-based hedg... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | How GM Plans To Dominate The Electric Vehicle Market... In The 1980s | Why Shouldn't Competitors Be Able To Weigh In On Patent Applications? | Entertainment Industry Continues To Try To Sneak Copyright Expansion Through ACTA >> . Predictions by Mike Masnick Tue, Jul 8t... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | TAQA to Acquire 6 Offshore Fields in North Sea | The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, TAQA Bratani Limited (TAQA Bratani), has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Shell U. Limited and Es... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Wind turbines serve reservation, state | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation joined the growing list of wind turbine sites in the state last week with the installation of its first wind turbine. Pine Ridge and the state s other reservations have ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | T. Boone Pickens Unveils The Pickens Plan - A Sweeping, Innovative Plan to Address National Energy Dependency Crisis | MedImpact Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony at Site of New Corporate Headquarters . Online Revealed Caribbean Introduces Co-Chairs and Advisory Board for the September 2008 Internet Travel Marketing Confe... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Aguirre Preps SDG&E Suit Over State Mandate | SAN DIEGO -- City Attorney Michael Aguirre said Tuesday his office is prepared to sue San Diego Gas & Electric to force the utility to comply with a state mandate that requires it to get 20 percent of... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Gatorade center to become largest solar energy project in AZ | WEBONLY: See inside Gatorade's Valley solar energy project A Gatorade manufacturing and distribution center in Tolleson is getting ready to install what officials say will be the largest solar energy ... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Day camp teaches children about alternative energy | Report blames driver error for fatal bus crash .. Lima mayor David Berger is vindictive; time for a change . OTTAWA - Roughly 35 first- through eighth-graders gathered at the Putnam County YMCA Tuesda... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine | 6). Roundtable: Economic Solutions to Recession Crisis. Alaska s Untapped Energy Resource: Natural Gas. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when th... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | T. Boone Pickens, Mesa Power oil tycoon, wants you to use wind power | If you don t know T. Pickens, who made billions in the oil industry and founded Mesa Petroleum, seems to think we re in a little bit of a pickle. Pickens believes that the only way that we can get awa... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Amber Pearson | The " Republican war on science " has evidently opened a new front: economics, a discipline often fetishized by the right. In a startling article published July 4, the Guardian reports that in a "secr... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Save green, go green | By Keith Howard Advocates promoting a new green power device claim their product can lower carbon dioxide emissions while saving homeowners hundreds on gas and electric bills by spinning electric mete... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | These 5 Underdogs Are No Dogs | Short-sellers and hedge funds -- often one and the same -- have been getting a lot of scrutiny lately because of their bearish market calls. Although they mostly prefer to work in the shadows, some, l... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | ArthurGlen | General Motors has downsized plans to equip the Chevy Volt plug-in electric car with a 12-gallon fuel tank. The original idea was to give the vehicle an extra 600-mile driving range once the lithium-i... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | BoneHeadOtto | A quick Google search is all that is required to find hundreds of stories of people who claim to have increased their fuel mileage by installing a hydrogen generator which extracts hydrogen and oxygen... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | BC's Blind Eye to Sun, Wind Power | British Columbia has a global reputation for developing cheap, renewable energy, thanks to its dependence on hydroelectricity. But what about tapping tides, wind and sun to create power? In those area... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Alberta to spend billions to cut emissions | CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta said on Tuesday it will put C$4 billion ($3.92 billion) into two funds that will be used to pay for carbon capture and storage pr... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | USA: Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. Finalizes Exclusive LED Lighting and Solar Systems Development Agreement with Kauffman Consulting | Environmental Market:Environmental Companies and Organization News Post your company / organization news. Finalizes Exclusive LED Lighting and Solar Systems Development Agreement with Kauffman Consult... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | New Zeland: Mighty River Power signs agreements with Windflow Technology Limited | Mighty River Power confirmed it had signed agreements with Windflow Technology Limited to purchase a 19.95% cornerstone shareholding effective mid- October 2008. In addition, both parties have entered... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | A new definition of 'devoted dad' | Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Thank you for that uplifting picture of devoted fatherhood in Sunday's story of the Lester Street killings ("Blood Relatives"). According to its subtitle, Cecil Dotson was a "dev... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Bernanke Walks the Tightrope | Reading through Ben Bernanke's speech today about " Financial Regulation and Financial Stability " is enough to give a person whiplash. One second he's calling for actions to crack down on reckless le... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | The Pickens Plan | The Chinese Bubble Bursts July 8, 2008 The Pickens Plan T. Boone Pickens is launching an ad blitz on how to fix the energy crisis. Today, Pickens will take the wraps off what he's calling the Picken... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | 48,000 suffer fire-related outages | Pat DeNatale, who is with the Sierra Hotshots, uses a drip torch to set backfires on the southern side of West Camino Cielo above Goleta in the Santa Ynez mountains as firefighting hand crews clear br... Read » |
08/Jul 2008 | Beware Boone-doggle | TO THE MANY WACKY subplots of the current drama the dollar junked, the Bear skinned, both of the Dow's Generals court-martialed add this one: a Texas oilman souring on sweet old-fashioned crude, t... |