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Article:	Commentary: The new US energy policy approach. What does this mean for the renewable energy sector?	View Article
Published:	7/17/2008 by Corporate Responsibility (By Quinn McKew)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Geo Energy Network 81 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & People And Politics

Article Details: In the United States, “energy policy” essentially means one thing: oil policy. The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Congress is serious about producing a new energy policy after years of stalemates and inaction. But read carefully. All the talk about a new energy policy is driven by one thing: consumer anxiety about the high cost of gasoline (petrol). It is not unreasonable to assume that any energy policy will be a reactionary response to this concern versus a much-needed re-alignmen

Article:	Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal	View Article
Published:	5/30/2008 by New York Times (Matthew L. Wald)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Coal is abundant and cheap, assuring that it will continue to be used. But the failure to start building, testing, tweaking and perfecting carbon capture and storage means that developing the technology may come too late to make coal compatible with limiting global warming. The Electric Power Research Institute, a utility consortium, estimated that it would take as long as 15 years to go from starting a pilot plant to proving the technology will work.

Article:	Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare	View Article
Published:	5/24/2008 by AP - Yahoo (Samantha Gross)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Fossil Fuels & Living Green

Article Details: Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare.

Article:	US says polar bear threatened; limits energy work	View Article
Published:	5/14/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Geo Energy Network 143 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Habitats & Energy

Article Details: The US government on Wednesday declared the polar bear a threatened species under federal environmental protection laws, a ruling that may further limit efforts to develop US energy resources in Alaska. Advocates of increased US domestic energy development have long sought access to oil and gas reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Alaska’s north coast. Environmentalists have opposed drilling in the refuge on grounds it would disrupt and endanger the wildlife that ANWR was cr

Article:	Running on Empty	View Article
Published:	4/24/2008 by The Nation (Mark Hertsgaard )	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: The arrival of $119 bbl crude and $4 gal gasoline are obvious signs that global oil production has or soon will peak. With global demand rising and supplies limited, higher, more volatile prices and shortages could provoke--to quote the title of the must-see peak oil documentary--the end of suburbia. The world's economy and, paradoxically, the fight against climate change could be in deep trouble.

Article:	What Nuclear Renaissance?	View Article
Published:	4/24/2008 by The Nation (Christian Parenti)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Nuclear Energy

Article Details: In an effort to jump-start a "nuclear renaissance," the Bush Administration has pushed one package of subsidies after another. A program of federal loan guarantees amounting to $18.5 billion has sat waiting for utilities to build nukes. So why is the much-storied "nuclear renaissance" so slow to get rolling? In a nutshell, blame Warren Buffett, and the banks--they won't put up the cash.

Article:	A Renegade Against Greenpeace - Fareed Zakaria (Newsweek)	View Article
Published:	4/21/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 174 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Nuclear Energy

Article Details: Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, left abruptly, and, in a controversial reversal, has become an outspoken advocate of some of the environmental movement's most detested causes, chief among them nuclear energy. He states that "other than hydroelectric energy nuclear is the only technology besides fossil fuels available as a large-scale continuous power source, and I mean one you can rely on to be running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Wind and solar energy are intermittent

Article:	Money for India’s ‘Ultra Mega’ Coal Plants Approved - Andrew C. Revkin (New York Times)	View Article
Published:	4/9/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 180 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: The troubling tension between propelling prosperity and limiting climate risks is on full display this week. India’s Tata Power group just gained important financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank for its planned $4 billion, 4-billion watt “Ultra Mega” coal-burning power plant complex in Gujarat state. The plant will emit about 23 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Article:	McCain Under Fire Over Environment Record - Elana Schor (The Guardian)	View Article
Published:	3/27/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 168 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	People And Politics & Energy

Article Details: When the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released its annual environmental rankings last month, McCain - whose campaign website declares him “a leader on the issue of global warming” - earned a zero for missing all of the group’s votes on key green issues. He was one of nine Republicans scoring the lowest possible rating.

Article:	Coal Can't Fill World's Burning Appetite - Steven Mufson, Blaine Harden (Washington Post)	View Article
Published:	3/20/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 200 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Long considered an abundant, reliable and relatively cheap source of energy, coal is suddenly in short supply and high demand worldwide. An untimely confluence of bad weather, flawed energy policies, low stockpiles and voracious growth in Asia's appetite has driven international spot prices of coal up by 50 percent. Freight cars in Appalachia are brimming with coal for export. The boom in coal exports and prices has helped lower the trade deficit for the USA.

Article:	Finland's Rational Approach to Nuclear Power	View Article
Published:	3/19/2008 by Heritage Foundation (Jack Spencer)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Nuclear Energy

Article Details: Finland is developing a broad mix of environmentally friendly, economically competitive energy sources. Nuclear energy is an important part of that effort. Not only has Finland begun to construct a new, modern 1,600-megawatt reactor, but it is successfully executing a cohesive, workable strategy to manage spent fuel. The United States has done neither.

Article:	U.S. Coal Power Boom Suddenly Wanes - Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor)	View Article
Published:	3/4/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Concerns about global warming and rising building costs are blocking construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States and pushing utilities to turn to natural gas and renewable power instead. Utilities canceled or put on hold at least 45 coal plants in development last year. This is a sharp reversal from a year ago, when the industry had more than 150 such plants in development and signals the waning of a major US expansion into coal.

Article:	The LED Illumination Revolution - Mark Mills (Forbes)	View Article
Published:	2/27/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 208 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Energy Efficiency

Article Details: Semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) are finally on the verge of having the capability to radically alter the entire lighting landscape with staggering improvements in both lighting efficiency and efficacy. LEDs have already achieved 100 lumens per watt, with 200 visible. Incandescent bulbs yield some 15 lumens a watt, CFLs about 80. LEDs last 50,000, and soon 100,000, hours.

Article:	Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet From London	View Article
Published:	2/24/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Jason K 225 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Biofuels

Article Details: Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels.

Article:	Big Solar Project Planned for Arizona Desert - Marianne Lavelle (US News and World Report)	View Article
Published:	2/21/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 221 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Renewable Energy

Article Details: Arizona Public Service announces plans to build the world's largest "concentrating solar power" plant, a $1 billion project to spread parabolic mirrors over a 3-mile-square stretch of desert 70 miles southwest of Phoenix. It will generate 280 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 70,000 homes.

Article:	U.S. Scraps Ambitious Clean-Coal Power Plant - Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor)	View Article
Published:	2/1/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Prospects for nearly emissions-free coal power in the United States have dimmed in the wake of the US Department of Energy's decision to pull the plug on a "clean coal" demonstration plant called FutureGen. Instead of the $1.76 billion project, which was expected to capture and store underground 90 percent of its greenhouse-gas emissions, the Energy Department is budgeting $241 million for several commercial power-plant projects that will capture and store a smaller share of their emissions.

Article:	Corn on the Mob - Patrick J. Michaels (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	1/30/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 232 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Biofuels

Article Details: The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol be mixed with gasoline, thereby lowering the amount of CO2 we emit. An unintended consequence of the act is rising food prices all over the world, leading to civil unrest in Indonesia. “The sad fact is that Indonesia's unrest is only the slightest foreshock preceding the massive civil earthquake that is going to be unleashed as more and more absurd policies are mandated by the global warming mob.”

Article:	How Not to Address Climate Change - Kenneth P. Green (American Enterprise Institute)	View Article
Published:	1/20/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 232 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Fossil Fuels

Article Details: Common sense has left the building when it comes to climate policy. Cap-and-trade schemes are fundamentally flawed, and particularly ill-suited to greenhouse gas control. Negatives include losses of 1.5 to 3.4 million jobs, a drag on economic growth, incentives to cheat, those raking in profits in new carbon trading calling for ever-tighter caps, and higher costs of goods and services.

Article:	Hot Air and Wind - Robert J. Michaels (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	12/20/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 232 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Renewable Energy

Article Details: Proposed legislation for a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) reverses decades of improvement in environmental regulation, where cap-and-trade markets have replaced command regimes and regulators set allowable emissions by comparing costs and benefits. Instead, it forces the use of politically favored technologies rather than allowing market participants to choose their own methods of environmental compliance.

Article:	Hooked on Subsidies - Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	11/26/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 232 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Nuclear Energy

Article Details: Pro-nuclear groups herald the coming flood of applications to build and operate nuclear power plants as proof that nuclear energy makes economic sense. Nonsense. The only reason investors are interested: government handouts. Absent those subsidies, investor interest would be zero. The total cost of juice from a new nuclear plant today is 4.31 cents per kilowatt-hour. That's far more than electricity from a conventional coal-fired plant (3.53 cents) or "clean coal" plant (3.55 cents). Taking away