Alternative Energy Pakistan

$875 million dollars are expected to be invested in alternative energy in Pakistan. The main alterntaive energy technologies to be used will...

Revolutionary Alternative Energy Technology Part One:Anti-Matter

Visualisation of anti-matter powered rocket One of the major advantages of fossil fuels is that they are energy dense. A challenge with rene...

North Korea - Coal Use to Increase 5 times by 2020

Energy consumption in North Korea is expected to double over 30 years, from almost 48m tonnes of oil equivalent in 1990 to 96 million tonnes...

Go ahead for $155m wind farm in Australia

A 52 wind turbine, $155 million dollar ($220m Australian dollars), wind farm has been approved in Victoria, Australia. The project will gene...

Middle East: Call for Arabs to Plan for the End of Oil Age

Burj Al-Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates This article in Arab newspaper, Dar Al-Hayat, calls on Arab Countries (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, ...

Low Speed Wind Turbines

"Energy increases by the cube," says Andy Kruse quoted in the Oakland Tribune, vice president of Southwest Windpower. "If you...

Wind, Wave, Tidal: Renewables Triple Play at Sea

Off-shore wind, wave and tide power are potentially a vast electricity resource for the UK. According to this article in UK national paper, ...

Demand for Alternative Energy in Brazil may Double

Brazil's electricity regulator may reduce transmission and distribution rates by up to 50% for renewable energy which, Paulo Toledo, the...

Solar Powered Steam Turbine

A Professor at Tohoku University in Japan has created a system that can power a steam turbine using solar energy. According to Professor Sai...

Spain to Triple Wind Power by 2010

Actually this was announced several months ago but it appears Spanish politicians (as is becoming the habit of their colleagues throughout t...

Despite accidents Japan pushes ahead with Nuclear Power

Tokaimura Accident (1999) Japan currently generates about a third of its electricity from nuclear power. There are plans to construct a fast...

New York Times article on Alternative Energy Investment

This New York Times article on alternative energy investment notes that companies involved in alternative energy have missed the recent rall...

India: big on altenergy vision, low on actual commitments

This press release from the information bureau of the Indian government emphasises a need for India to take a lead in alternative energy tec...

Weapons scientists turn their sights to Wind Turbines

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has teamed up with former soviet weapons scientists to design a small-scale wind turbine that could be used by ...

China - An Energy Timebomb?

According to John Constable, senior UK economist for Exxon Mobil, China with a population of 1.3 billion people currently uses the energy eq...

Renewable Energy makes ballot in Colorado

After four years of trying supporters of renewable energy have got their initiative on November's ballot. The initiative proposes that t...

World's Largest Solar Power Project announced

PowerLight Corporation, K&S Consulting Group, and Deutsche Structured Finance announced a plan to build the world’s largest solar power ...

Korea joins the party

The Korean government has set a target of generating 5% of their energy from alternative energy within seven years. Worryingly the Commerce ...

Time to consider the nuclear power option?

This opinion piece by Robin McKie in the Guardian newspaper warns "we are heading for a power supply meltdown". The more I've ...

The World's Largest Alternative Energy Project is Air-Conditioning?

According to this article in the Toronto Star - Hollywood Actor Alec Baldwin launched the world's largest alternative energy project in ...

Made in Denmark: Wind Power

Denmark is the dominant player in the off-shore wind turbine market. BTM Consult estimate by placing wind turbines along the coastline of Eu...

Solar Gold Rush

Venture capitalists after chasing riches with dot-coms, biotech and wi-fi are now looking to make fortunes from solar cell technology. Some ...

'Triple funds to capture wave energy'

Venture capital firm 3i has said the U.K. government should triple its investment in marine energy. Funnily enough I said the same thing in ...

$235 billion subsidy for fossil fuels

The British Government has sent a letter to the World Bank saying it has not done enough to cut subsidies for extracting oil, coal and gas. ...

6 Tidal Power Turbines for New York

Of all renewable energy sources, wind power and solar power are currently among the most cost effective and scalable. These are the sources ...

Colorado's Wind Power could Triple by 2007

The Denver Post reports Xcel Energy one of the U.S.'s largest utility companies plans to triple wind power generation from a current lev...

Solar Powered Wine

A vineyard in California has officially announced the shift to solar power, another example of state and federal incentives working. The sys...

Red Hydrogen Buses on London's streets

Three hydrogen buses began service in a two year trial this week running from Central London to East London. Each bus costs approximately $1...

Colorado: Pork barrel spending from energy dinosaurs

The Denver Post reports Citizens for "Sensible Energy", funded unsurprising not by regular citizens but by three of the major supp...

has been celebrities against wind power

Noel Edmonds - once the face of Saturday night TV in England Wind power is in my opinion THE best renewable energy source at the moment. It...

Solar Chimney

artist's visualisation Enviromission of Australia wants to build a $342million 200 MW "solar chimney" in southwestern New Sout...

Kyocera begin making solar PV modules in North America

Kyocera announced yesterday that they are going to begin large scale manufacture of solar photovoltaic modules later this year in Tijuana, M...

Japanese Create a Solar Sail

Japanese scientists have deployed two prototype solar sails in space. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3555048.stm Meanwhile back on Ear...

New Wave Energy Centre in Scotland

A new European wave energy research centre has been officially open in Orkney, Scotland. Scotland is one of the world's centres for wave...