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The Pendulum Swings to Cash
Over the long term, market cycles are characterized by swings of sentiment, and changes in investor preferences. The recent cycle was characterized by an emphasis on growth and capital gains. In the current financial crisis, investors are again learning the...
2008: The Year of (Un)Sustainable Biofuel
Last year, I used a special run of AltEnergyStocks.com's new Cleantech News (CTN) aggregator to bring you the ten stories of 2007 which bloggers found most interesting or controversial. Continuing the tradition, below are the ten stories of 2008 which Cleantech and Green Bloggers were talking...AltEnergyStocks.com's Ten Best Competitors
When I began writing about clean energy investing in 2006, my competition was sparse. The quality blogs with industry heavyweights were either not focused on investing, or were primarily focused on venture capital. Now the world has changed. I keep finding new blogs and writers...
Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2009
Here is a mini-portfolio of ten Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stocks I expect to do well in 2009. Last year, I brought you ten speculative picks in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, and I evaluated them against clean energy mutual funds and ETFs on Monday. I chose to go...
Clean Energy Mutual Funds and ETFs: Does Active Management Pay?
In my articles about Clean Energy Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), I usually say:
Update: Ten Speculations for 2008
A year ago, I brought you 10 Alternative Energy Stocks I thought were worth speculating on for 2008. I revisited these in June, when a balanced portfolio of the 10 was "up 11.4% for the year, compared to the S&P 500 which is down 4.2% and the NASDAQ Clean Edge US Index, which is down...
Seasons Greetings!
The team at AltEnergyStocks.com wishes all of our readers a happy and safe holiday season 2008.
In 2007, we brought you the Cleantech News service. In 2008, we were delighted to bring you individual and category stock pages.
We intend to continue looking for ways to create value for our readers...
Solar Stocks As the Best Play On The Cleantech Revolution? (Part II)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a recent report claiming that solar PV was going to be at the fore of the "cleantech revolution." I've never doubted solar PV's potential. What I like most about it, besides the fact that it's the most abundant energy form on Earth, is the ability...
Geothermal Heat Pump Stocks
Geothermal heat pumps (GHP), also know as Geoexchange, or ground-source heat pumps have been recognized by both the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy as the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to heat and cool a building available. The downside of...
Smart Grid Stocks For The Obama Stimulus Package
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a new Obama administration would renew with Keynesianism (i.e. large-scale counter-cyclical infrastructure spending) but with a green twist to: (a) get the US economy out of its funk and (b) propel America into the 21st Century by providing a massive push for...
Ten Solid, Clean Companies Ready For Stimulus, and Five That Aren't
by Tom Konrad
Last February, I wrote "[Since] I expect the Fed-induced reprieve to be fairly short lived, [here are] ten solid companies I'd be happy to buy more of if and when the bottom really falls out of the market." When I wrote those words, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was...
How Are We Doing On Our Stimulus Plan Stocks So Far?
A few weeks ago, I wrote a series of two articles on the yet-to-be-unveiled Obama stimulus package for the economy, arguing that things pointed in the direction of massive infrastructure spending with a green twist. I argued that this would benefit a certain categories of rail-related stocks...
Solar Stocks As the Best Play On The Cleantech Revolution? (Part I)
I just got around to reading a new report by Merrill Lynch (link at the end of this article) identifying cleantech as "The Sixth Revolution" (the other five being: Industrial Revolution; Age of Steam & Railways; Age of Steel, Electricity and Heavy Engineering; Age of Oil, the...
Avoiding a Carbon-Price Backlash
by Tom Konrad, Ph.D.
Economics and Greenery, a Belated Rapprochement
It is truly a triumph of economic ways of thinking that many of environmental activists are championing market-based approaches to tackling climate change. Those people who are not for cap-and-trade on global warming...
Comparing Electricity Storage and Transmission
Electricity Storage and Transmission are naturally complementary, and more of both will be needed. But given limited time and resources, where should those of us who want to see as much renewable electricity on the grid as soon as possible concentrate our efforts? The choice is not...