North Wales: Giant wind farm gets the go-ahead
• news.bbc.co.ukGwynt y Môr, combined with three other nearby wind farms, will provide enough green electricity to power the equivalent of 680,000 homes.
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The 10 big energy myths
• Guardian.co.ukFirst Solar, the largest manufacturer of thin panels, claims that its products will generate electricity in sunny countries as cheaply as large power stations by 2012.
H2O - Water Powered Car
• YouTube.comThe video is 1 minute and 21 sec.
U.S. Moves Ahead on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land
• Washington PostThe Bush administration, which has sought to reduce American dependence on imports to meet the continuing demand for oil and gas, has aggressively pushed to open up energy exploration across broad swaths of the West, off both coasts, and in Alaska.
Iraq says 80 dollars a 'reasonable' price for oil
• Breitbart.com"A reasonable price for oil is 80 dollars a barrel," said Shahristani on arrival in Cairo to attend a consultative meeting by the OPEC cartel to study slumping crude prices. (Really? Pre or post Hyper-inflation dollars. Such BS)
A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power
• NY TimesThe man who came to Elsie Bacon’s ranch house door in July asked the 71-year-old widow to grant access to a right of way across the dry hills and short grasses of her land here. Ms. Bacon remembered his insistence on a quick, secret deal.
Spanish city sets up solar cemetery
• news.BBC.co.uk"The best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations," he said.
Oil under $50
• ReutersOil dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday, touching the lowest level since May 2005 as record U.S. job losses intensified concerns of a long and deep global recession and further crushed demand expectations.
Author of "The Energy Non-Crisis" predicts $50 oil months ago.
Ernest HancockThis interview of Lindsey Williams occurred on July 9th 2008 by Pastor Butch Paugh. Oil prices are set to goto $50 dollars per barrel. Listen to this shocking interview on the coming collapse of the American Dollar.
Oil Prices
• Bloomberg.comWe are going to $50 a barrel oil. Didn't Lindsey Williams say that he was told by high ly places sources of information in the oil industry tell him that this was "the Plan" months ago? (yes he did)
Mini Nuclear Plants Powering 20,000 Homes Each On Sale Within Five Years
• HuffingtonPost.comThe miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.
Better Plastic Solar Cells
• Technology ReviewAustralia, is planning to sell solar cells that can double as the facades on buildings. Both companies have already developed dye-sensitized solar cells based on earlier technology, but the recent advances could make the cells cheaper and significant
Who needs alternate energy when you can have a nuclear reactor in your backyard?
• Guardian.co.ukNuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
Portable power: Tiny solar cells show promise
• Reuters.com"Because it is in a solution, you can design a special spray gun where you can control the size and thickness. You could produce a paste and brush it on," she said.
Chinese Cargo Ships Will Have Solar Sails
• http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2276/The sails are 30 meters long, covered with solar PV panels that will provide 5 percent of the ships' electricity and will harness enough wind to reduce fuel costs by 20 to 40 percent. The sails are controlled by a computer that angles them for ma
Coating helps solar panels soak up more of the sun
• ReutersA new type of reflective coating can make solar panels far more efficient, soaking up nearly all available sunlight from nearly any angle. Surfaces treated with a coating can harvest 96.2 percent of sunlight.
Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel
• blog.Wired.com"When we looked at the gas analysis, I was flabbergasted," said Gary Strobel, a plant scientist at Montana State University, and the lead author of a paper in Microbiology describing the find. "We were looking at the essence of diesel
Obama vows to destroy the American Coal Industry
• APObama on his energy plan: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
Air Cars to be built in U.S. starting in 2011
• finance.yahoo.comThis car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today's fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius.
Obama and Coal: Obama Admits His Policies Will “Bankrupt” Coal Industry
• MondoNewsBusters uncovers an audio interview the SF Chronicle conducted with Barack Obama earlier this year. Though the SF Chronicle omitted it,in the audio of the interview, Obama says his policies will “bankrupt” the coal industry. Good perhaps for SF;
Sun + Water = Fuel
• Technology ReviewWhen a current was applied to an electrode immersed in the solution, cobalt and phosphate accumulated on it in a thin film, and a dense layer of oxygen bubbles started forming in just a few minutes released by splitting the water. "Here's th
World's Most Efficient Solar Cells Created
• Michael Shedlock / MishUniversity of New South Wales’ ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has reported the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent efficiency.
Crude oil prices drop Friday morning
• UPINEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell Friday morning on the New York Mercantile Exchange as economic worries spread.
USA National Gas Temperature Map
Ernest Hancock(They blew past the '$2.99 by the election' prediction that I made. Maybe we are in for $1.99 to make us feel better and eliminate the Alternative Energy threat.)
Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' says expert
• Times OnlineNuclear... the new "Green" - The consolation of sitting a few yards from a nuclear reactor will be non-stop flights from London to Australia or New Zealand, because the aircraft will no longer need to land to refuel.
Lower demand drags oil back towards $60
• Financial TimesOil prices fell to a fresh 17-month low on Monday, trading just above $60 a barrel, on signals of lower energy demand in November, in spite of the arrival of the cold season in the northern hemisphere.
U.S. Might Pay Ethanol Plants for Corn Losses
• Des Moines RegisterThe U.S. Department of Agriculture may use its rural development money to assist ethanol plants that have suffered losses in the volatile corn futures markets, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Friday in Des Moines.
HelioVolt's solar materials plant to open Friday
• statesman.comThe company, founded by chief executive B.J. Stanbery in 2001, has pioneered the use of powerful and durable thin-film solar materials that can be made part of metals, plastic, glass or other materials that can be incorporated into the construction o
Oil Hits 16-Month Low as Fuel Supplies Build
• smartmoney.comCrude oil futures fell to a fresh 16-month low Wednesday, pressured by a surging dollar and significant gains in U.S. petroleum stockpiles. Light, sweet crude for December delivery -- the new front month -- traded as low as $67.50 a barrel
Oil falls below $70 on US recession fears
• apnews.myway.comLONDON (AP) - Oil prices fell below $70 a barrel Wednesday as investors shrugged off a looming OPEC production cut after company forecasts suggested the U.S. may be headed for a severe economic slowdown that would crimp demand for crude.
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