Alternative Energy Blog
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100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2018
We need a massive increase in electricity generated from alternative energy.Here's Al Gore's vision:
Here's one way to achieve 100% Carbon Free Electricity
Thoughts?
Why are Oil Prices So High?
Why are oil prices so high? This is the question being asked with increasing frequency in many countries around the world. Some would have you believe that the blame should be placed on "greedy oil companies", "Arabs", "speculators" or "OPEC".
While speculation is happening with investors and hedge...
House Passes 15% Renewable Energy by 2020
The United States House of Representatives has passed an Energy Bill requiring utility companies to produce 15 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020.
The Bill passed in the House on a 241-172 vote, despite strong opposition from electric utility...
Brief Analysis of Climate Change Report
Here?s my brief analysis of and comments on the recent IPCC working group report on Mitigation of Climate Change released from Bangkok, Thailand as it relates to alternative energy.
Energy Efficient & Net Zero Energy Buildings
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are rightly held to be a key ways...
Seeing Red: Palm Oil Biodiesel
In the enthusiasm for renewable energy and taking care of our environment, it is easy to assume that making fuel from plants (biofuel) must be by definition "green" and renewable. However when it comes to energy issues, easy assumptions can be dangerous assumptions. In previous years some...
City Utilities End Coal Fired Electricity Contracts in California
In what is hopefully the start of a new trend, several Southern California cities have decided not to renew long-term contracts for coal-fired electricity, choosing instead to turn to cleaner sources of electricity.
City officials told Utah-based Intermountain Power Agency they wouldn't be renewing...
$402m Tidal Energy Plant For New Zealand
New Zealand?s Northern Advocate reports that a US $402 million (NZ $600m) proposal to generate electricity with 200 tidal-powered turbines submerged at the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour could get under way next year. The harbour is one of the largest in the world. It?s a broad shallow harbour...
Buy This Alternative Book
Here at the Alternative Energy Blog, while not underestimating the scale of the challenges facing the world, we like to talk about solutions. Another website that has consistently done this is World Changing, which started as an award winning group blog, became a non-profit and has now also become...
Clean Coal or Dirty Coal?
When President Bush said ?America is addicted to oil?, he could also have said that America is addicted to coal.Most Americans are not aware of the sheer scale of current coal use in the United States. Over 50% of electricity is generated from coal with 20 pounds of coal per a person being burnt...
Plug-In Hybrid Campaign
I encourage everyone to sign this online plug in hybrid campaign urging automakers to produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The petition basically says, 'If you build it, we will buy it.' Plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles are key to energy independence and reducing pollution.
Over 40...
Is Ethanol / E85 Fuel the Solution?
I've recently received a number of emails calling for me to Kick the Oil Habit by supporting E85 which is a liquid fuel made up of 85% ethanol and 15% regular gasoline. Having previously had my doubts about ethanol I emailed fellow blogger the Engineer Poet seeking his opinion. A large part of this...
Why Alternative Energy?
A poll carried carried out for the BBC World Service of nearly 20,000 people from across 19 countries found wide support for alternative energy strategies.
The poll illustrates a perceived triple threat from the way the world produces and uses energy.
Majorities across all 19 countries indicate that...
$4b Investment in Wind Power by BP Alternative Energy
BP is making its first major investment in wind power with a joint venture that will lead to a major expansion of its generating capacity.
The oil company announced it had entered a five-year supply and development agreement involving five wind power projects in the US with Clipper Windpower.
The...
Alternative Energy Inspires Young Scientists
In Indianapolis a number of the 1,500 young scientists competing in the International Science and Engineering Fair for $4 million dollars in prizes and scholarships pursued alternative energy innovations.
Seventeen year old Allison Wilson from Stuart, Iowa, won $11,000 in scholarships by making...
Ethanol Fuel in South Africa
photo (c) 2005 Julia Freeman
Tumi Makgetla reports in South Africa's Mail & Guardian that while an interest in alternative energy and green politics is often seen as the preserve of the chattering classes, working-class people in Johannesburg's inner city are already using renewable energy in...
Austin Energy Excels as #1 Green Energy Electricity Utility in America
UPDATE: This is a list of the top ten green energy programs in the United States with the latest December 2005 figures and links to these electric utilities. One of the biggest differences we can make is to switch to "green energy" - energy generated from 100% renewable sources. Florida Power &...
Mixed Signals & Federal Funding for Alternative Energy Research
There have definitely been some mixed signals on alternative energy research recently. At the same time President Bush's State of the Union address called for a 22 percent increase in federal spending to develop alternative energies, dozens of staffers and contractors for the National Renewable...
Austin Energy Excels as #1 Green Energy Electricity Utility in America
UPDATE: This is a list of the top ten green energy programs in the United States with the latest December 2005 figures and links to these electric utilities. One of the biggest differences we can make is to switch to "green energy" - energy generated from 100% renewable sources. Florida Power &...
Alternative Energy Argentina: Bringing Wind Power to Remote Areas
Max Seitz reports for the BBC that wind power is the most widespread renewable energy source in Argentina - and Patagonia in particular has extraordinary potential due to its strong and constant winds.
He travelled to southern Chubut province, about 890 miles south of Buenos Aires, where wind power...
Alternative Energy Ecuador: 15MW Windfarm for Loja
Vilcabamba, Loja Province, Ecuador
Ecuadorian company Villonaco Wind Power, 80%-owned by Canadian alternative energy generator Protocol Energy, is scheduled to begin construction of a 15MW wind park this month in Ecuador's Loja province, Protocol chairman and CEO Thomas Logan told...
China to Spend Billions on Alternative Energy
China is to spend billions on alternative energy and many times more on oil and coal.
Tim Johnson of Knight Ridder reports that barely a dozen years ago the country didn't need deep-sea oil ports, massive tank farms and a brawny foreign policy to procure oil in far-flung spots.
Today, China is an...
Top Ten UK Alternative Energy Projects
Solar Powered CIS Tower in Manchester
The UK?s top ten alternative energy projects have been named by the UK government?s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). They include offshore turbines in Kent, the solar-powered CIS tower in Manchester and a wave buoy in Cornwall.
A target of supplying 10% of...
Australia: Alternative Energy Grants
Geothermal Plant
From geothermal power to better batteries, millions have been spent on alternative energy research grants in Australia, according to Rod Myer writing for The Age of Australia.
The AUD $23 million (approximately $17 million) spent by the Australian Federal Government under the first...
Alternative Energy Hungary: First Windfarm in Hungary
Kaposvar
Austrian company Öko-Energia GmbH is to invest Ft60 billion ($284.6 million) in establishing the first wind farm in Hungary, in the south Rábaköz region, 150km west of Budapest. Forty-eight wind turbines will be built, at a price of between Ft500-800m ($2.37-3.79m) and producing 2,000...
Alternative Energy in Central America
Managua, Nicaragua
Cancún, Mexico - With the signing of an energy partnership with Mexico, Central America is poised to see a steady supply of oil and natural gas from its northern neighbor.
Mexico's focus on hydrocarbons was clear in the plan, drafted by Mexican officials, which ranked development...