Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History
• http://www.tomdispatch.com, By Bill McKibbenAlong with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies.”
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Proposed Satellite Would Beam Solar Power to Earth
• http://www.space.com, Leonard DavidAn energy-hungry Earth is in need of transformational and sustainable energy solutions, experts say.
Google's Search for Clean Energy
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica LeberThe Internet giant thought it could help invent cheap renewable power. That wasn't so easy.
Sapphire Energy Raises $144 Million for an Algae Farm
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisBut is the company scaling up its technology too fast? This week, algae-biofuel startup Sapphire Energy announced it has received $144 million in new funding, which brings its total to over $300 million.
Revealed: Recent quakes in US 'almost certainly man-made'
• http://rt.comA US Geological Survey research team says a remarkable increase in earthquake occurrence in the US in the past decade is “almost certainly man-made.”
Why We Should End Handouts to Oil and Gas Companies
• http://motherjones.com, By Bill McKibbenThe fossil fuel business is wrecking our planet, and we're paying them a multibillion dollar bonus to do it.
USGS: Recent Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manmade'
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffReport implicates oil and natural gas drilling, aka fracking
Sapphire Energy Raises $144 Million for an Algae Farm
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThe company, which is less than five years old, has been moving quickly to build a 300-acre algae farm as a large-scale demonstration of its process for making algae oils.
Money, Credit and the Hike in the Price of Crude Oil
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Bob ChapmanHow do you create your own monsters? Over the past month the US and Europe have been telling us they will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down prices.
Chevrolet Volt Sales Surge
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comCould this mean better days for electric vehicles?
Solar Cell Thinner Than Spider Silk Could Power Internet of Things
• Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.comWhen you think about how to power a distributed network of environmental sensors, the kind we'll want to have in order to connect the entirety of our physical world to the Internet of Things, the answer is obvious: solar power.
Does It Matter If Electric Car Maker Fisker Fails?
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comTesla and new fuel-economy standards have already jump-started battery-powered vehicles.
Ecuador Spent $2.74 Billion In 2011 On Fuel Subsidies-Petroecuador GM
• http://online.wsj.comEcuador spent about $2.74 billion in fuel subsidies last year, including gas for cooking
Genetic Sensor Boosts Biofuel Production
• Susan Young via TechnalogyReview.comDesigner microbes regulate their own pathways to optimize fuel production, boosting yields threefold.
All These Dead Dolphins Show The BP Oil Spill May Be Far Worse Than Previously Feared
• http://www.businessinsider.com/effects-bp-oil-spilA growing body of research suggests that the impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have been far worse than previously believed
How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation's Biggest Climate Victory
• http://motherjones.com, By Mark HertsgaardActivists have imposed a de facto moratorium on new coal—and beat the Obama EPA to the punch.
Greenpeace Observes 'Oily Sheen' Miles from North Sea Leak Site
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffNot taking Total's word for it, enviromental group sends vessel to verify impacts of gas in North Sea exclusion zone
As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffNuclear Regulatory Commission OKs New Nuclear Plants in South Carolina
The Historic Texas Drought, Visualized
• http://www.npr.org, by Elise HuA devastating drought consumed nearly all of Texas in 2011, killing livestock, destroying agriculture and sparking fires that burned thousands of homes.
On Energy Policy, Another Shift For Romney
• http://www.npr.org, by Tamara KeithThe GOP candidates for president have seized on high gas prices as a line of attack against President Obama, largely saying the answer is more domestic oil drilling.
How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation's Biggest Climate Victory
• http://motherjones.com, By Mark HertsgaardActivists have imposed a de-facto moratorium on new coal—and beat the Obama EPA to the punch.
Email Leak: Fuel Panic 'Self-Inflicted Insanity'
• http://news.sky.comLeaked emails report that ambulance drivers are having fuel rationed - as an industry leader described the crisis as "self-inflicted insanity".
Oil on troubled waters? US, France want to calm voter rage by releasing strategic reserves
• http://rt.comThe French prime minister has said that there's a “good chance” the United States and Europe will agree to release oil reserves into the market to drive down crude prices, but discussions are still ongoing.
The Art of Warfare : Iran and The Gas Pipeline Battle"
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Manlio DinucciTwo major pipeline projects are at present vying to secure future energy supplies to Pakistan, India and China. One originates in Iran while the second one draws on reserves in Turkmenistan.
Are we on the Brink of an Energy Revolution: An Interview with Andrea Rossi
• Oilprice.comAndrea Rossi appears to have produced the first working “cold” fusion device, or low energy nuclear reaction (LENR), with his Energy Catalyser (E-Cat) machine; a technology previously declared impossible by the scientific community.
No New Coal Plants! Great, But What About the Old Ones?
• http://motherjones.com, By Kate SheppardThe Environmental Protection Agency made a huge step forward on Tuesday with the announcement of rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants—the first rules for power plants, ever.
'In the Realms of the Unknown': North Sea Gas Leak Enters Day 4
• http://www.commondreams.org- Common Dreams staffFrench gas giant dismissed concerns that the oil rig could explode
Obama Admin Takes Steps Towards More Oil Drilling
• http://www.commondreams.org,Common Dreams staffShell's oil spill plan for Beaufort Sea drilling approved, seismic surveys for oil off east coast get OK
CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CEO: In A Few Years, We'll Be Able To Say 'To Hell With OPEC'
• www.businessinsider.comIn a debate at The Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics forum, McClendon and Atlas Energy CEO Edward Cohen debated the costs and benefits the fracking revolution have yielded.
Gas Prices Expected To Continue Rising This Spring
• http://baltimore.cbslocal.comBALTIMORE (WJZ)—Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, gas prices are up again this week.
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