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• in Politics
  Will Wind Energy Be The First Casualty of The Fiscal Cliff?
  Will Congress preserve the subsidies that have been the lifeblood of the wind industry for two decades?
  by energizeme / on Nov 20, 2012
• in Green
  Will Politics Cost Us the Battle Against Climate Change ?
  A solar power project that can slow down climate change if we collaborate for the sake of this planet.
  by azraiel / on Feb 7, 2012
• in Politics
  Obama Takes Credit for Fracking and Pushes for More Renewable Energy Spending
  Renewable energy takes a spotlight during the latest State of the Union address.
  by energizeme / on Jan 25, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “renewable energy”

 

• Veto renewable energy bill, Gov. Hickenlooper

  
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  By Ken Anderson and Kent Singer Guest Commentary Probably no one has a greater stake in protecting Colorado’s environment than do those who live closest to the land: the farmers, ranchers and others who work in and around agriculture, as well as the many Coloradans who depend on tourism and recreation in the ...
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• Supermarkets Transform Their Unsold Spoiled Food Into Green Energy

  
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  Two supermarkets are making lemonade out of lemons the green way—by converting their spoiled food into energy . Grocery chains Ralphs and Food 4 Less (both part of the Kroger Co.) have joined forces with FEED Resource Recovery to make use of the rotten and expired foods that their markets don’t sell. Any food ...
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• Ethanol Production Inches Up

  
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  According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), fuel ethanol production capacity was 13.9 billion gallons per year (903,000 barrels per day) as of January 1, 2013 with the majority of production located in the Midwest. The report shows a slight increase in the total capacity of operating ethanol ...
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• 5 Ways To Talk With Conservatives About Climate Change

  
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  By Laura Michelle Burns In a survey by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies of 726 Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents, it was found that a slim majority of the participants (52%) believe that climate change is real. As a Conservative Republican, this statistic makes me sad because it ...
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• Back Off On China Solar Duties, Germany Urges EU

  
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  Germany’s solar manufacturing sector has been hit hard by cheap Chinese products but that doesn’t mean all of Germany  is going to sit by quietly as the European Union moves toward import duties of the sort the U.S. has already imposed . Quite the contrary, actually: “It’s a grave mistake,” is the ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers

  
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  Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.        
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• A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers

  
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  Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.
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• Is Europe Wasting a Fortune with the Poor Siting of Clean Energy Projects?

  
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  Here’s an article from SmartGridNews that raises an interesting and important question about the siting of renewable energy projects. Siemens is asserting that the large European governments are in the process of wasting 45 billion Euros by not properly thinking through the consequences of its siting ...
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• Vilsack’s Energy Policy Legacy

  
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  Nuclear Power? No Thanks Does Tom Vilsack’s 2007 consulting agreement with MidAmerican Energy matter any more? It does, but not in the way conservative pundits characterized it, as a form of political corruption, after President Obama appointed Vilsack to his current job as secretary of agriculture. The case can ...
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• Australian Scientists Printing Solar Cells Down Under

  
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  Scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells in Australia—10 times the size of what they were previously able to—thanks to a new solar cell printer that has been installed at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The printer is relatively cheap, uses common ...
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• Ethanol Tries To Make The Cellulosic Switch

  
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  The U.S. ethanol industry, not long ago booming, is in decline. Rising commodity prices have hurt, as has a trend toward folk driving less; there’s just not enough gasoline out there to blend the ethanol into. That’s a big part of the backstory that makes the developments last week out of Visalia, Calif., ...
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• A Welcome Voice of Corporate Leadership

  
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  A theme that I have been writing and speaking about a lot recently is the obligation of industry CEOs to lead their companies in reducing heat-trapping emissions and accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy – not only because of the essential societal benefits but because it’s good for business. ...
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• Sant Lucia Joins “Ten Island Renewable Challenge”

  
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  During the Caribbean Conservation Summit held on Necker Island, Saint Lucia announced that it will join Carbon War Room’s Ten Island Challenge. The event was co-hosted by Sir Richard Branson, the Prime Minister of Grenada and the Premier of the British Virgin Islands. “Solving the energy challenge and marine ...
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• Bacteria Use Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide to Produce Electricity

  
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  For all of us interested in alternative energy from fuel cells, this report from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is worth following: Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole ...
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• Norwegian Scientists Unveil Plans for First Underwater Storage Power Plant

  
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  Photo via Shutterstock A team of Norwegian research scientists has unveiled a concept that could see electricity stored on the seabed. Conceived by Subhydro AS , the underwater pumped hydroelectric power plant would use high water pressure to create energy that can then be stored for later use on shore. ...
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• German energy shift faces headwinds

  
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  Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so long ago. It is also prone to solar turbulence and other unexpected flare-ups. ...
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• Coal Tax To Fund India’s 750 MW Solar Power Capacity Addition Plan In 2013

  
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  The Indian government is set to repose millions of dollars in financial support for solar power project developers from the coal tax corpus it has accumulated over the last few years. Project developers looking to set up projects under the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission will receive ...
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• Ontario’s Buy Local Feed-In Tariff Stuck In A Rut After Initial Success

  
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  Hampered by an uncooperative utility and political fall-out, Ontario has fallen short of its goal of creating 50,000 jobs and 5 gigawatts of renewable energy power with its ‘buy local’ feed-in tariff program, despite gathering early momentum by generating 31,000 jobs and turning one in 7 farmers into energy ...
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• About To Throw the Switch on our Hydro

  
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  Richard Ha writes: Our hydro is all hooked up and we are ready to throw the switch. HELCO is meeting with whoever they meet with on O‘ahu on Tuesday, and we will get instructions for the Standard Inter Connect. We cannot wait. We will have stable and low-cost electricity. This will give us the ability to ...
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• Renewables are surging much faster than thought

  
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  A close observer of renewable energy markets I am amazed at how fast they are growing around the world. Many countries are banking on them to get out of the current triple crisis. Even if the efforts being done are lacking the necessary scale, results are very encouraging. Portugal is getting 70 percent of its ...
  4 days ago

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