AltEnToday

The writing on the wall is pretty clear. Alternative energy and our national dependence on foreign oil is a hot button, highly contentious political issue. Between T Boone Pickens’ plan, Al Gore’s “We” campaign, the numerous “coalitions” for clean coal, and the pressure to drill offshore, it’s nearly impossible to turn on the TV and [...]

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Looking for another source for regular alternative energy news? Go hop over to solartoday.wordpress.com and check out the ASES (American Solar Energy Society) blog (which has been up since April but only came to my attention about 20 minutes ago). There’s some interesting news to be found there in between issues of Solar Today arriving [...]

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So a little while back I created a post inspired by Fast Company’s article titled Big Oil Man goes to Big Wind. Turns out, T Boone Pickens has some pretty lofty goals for promoting his new “energy policy”, and is even taking out commercials on CNN and other prime-time TV spots to make sure you [...]

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Well, perhaps this is a good time to consider working in the alternative energy industry. . . According to a UN report highlighted by the article “UN reports big jump in ‘green energy’“. According to the report, the overall global energy market absolutely surged in 2007, including $148 billion in global investments - a 60 [...]

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In my previous post, I broke down some of the financial facts of big oil - specifically their market capitalization, revenues, and of importance - their profits. This second part will take a much closer look at what these companies are doing to invest in the alternative energy technologies of tomorrow.

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You can barely turn on the news today without realizing two things:

There are a lot of energy commercials on TV right now… I’ll cover that more in the future.
The news media really can’t get enough of the upcoming November presidential election.

In the context of our forthcoming political showdown, I wanted to take a moment to [...]

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Think nobody else is paying attention to the alternative energy future? Here’s a short list of some recent investments that have been made in the field of alternative energy:

Duke Energy is planning to invest over $100 million in solar panels in North Carolina
Masdar, the “clean-energy arm of the government of Abu Dhabi” will invest $2 [...]

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Caught an interesting article in this month’s FastCompany about oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens and his latest move towards renewable energy - wind style. His new project sounds exceptionally ambitious:

4,000 megawatt, 2,000 turbine wind farm
Enough energy to power approximately 1,000,000 homes - offsetting the potential output of 2 nuclear reactors
Economically viable (assuming that wind-power incentives [...]

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Caught an interesting article from CNet’s Green Tech blog regarding a vertical-axis wind turbine that’s being produced for homeowners looking to take advantage of their windy neighborhood in a cost-effective way. The price tag? A mere $4,995 - plus about $1,000 of installation costs.
The system, called Windspire, includes everything in one package, and is built [...]

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