Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com No matter how bad the U.S. economy gets in the coming months, President-elect Barack Obama is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to coal-fired power plants. If he shuts them down, he will exacerbate a forecasted nationwide power generation shortfall. If he keeps them running without requiring that they utilize expensive new emissions control …
ETS Investor Alert 12-1-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com A new report indicates that carbon dioxide is being absorbed by groundwater at a rate 100 times faster than it is in the atmosphere. in.news.yahoo.com This could become a real problem for attempts to sequester CO2 underground wherever sites are near groundwater supplies. Yet another reason to question the long-term prospects for carbon sequestration. Until tomorrow.
HYDROKINETIC ENERGY AT THE CROSSING
Submitted by New Energy News Blog One of the things that draws people to the study and development of New Energy is an intuition about a future that is becoming every day more palpable. In an assessment of the progress made by hydrokinetic (wave, tide and current) energy, a pioneer in the field described that intuition. Tom Denniss, founder/former CEO/now Chief …
MOVING WIND POWER AROUND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is 1 of 4 federal agencies created to manage the power created by the hydroelectric projects built by the federal government. WAPA has obligations to supply power to a wide range of electricity users. Drought on the Missouri River, now 8 years in duration, has begun to compromise WAPA’s …
SOLAR PUT TO TEST BY OIL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Point of view. It has everything to do with belief. Can’t believe something as complicated as a human eye could accidentally evolve? The only logical conclusion is that there must have been a designer. Start learning about the amazing range of variations there are on the eye in nature and suddenly it seems possible the …