Alternative Energy Japan - Micro & Mini Hydroelectric

Japan's Daily Yomiuri reports that small-scale hydroelectric power generation is quietly becoming a big thing, with small output generat...

Peak Oil: Can 3D Exploration Postpone The Peak?

Vicki Sare, who leads a team of 16 geologists and engineers specializing in 3D visualization. As crude oil hovers just below $50 a barrel N...

Africa: Alternative Energy Kenya: Wind Micropower

Approtec 's Xtrabike project in Kenya in Collaboration with XAccess AllAfrica.com reports that Kenyan duo Philip Osula and Mwacharo Guyo...

Asia: Alternative Energy Singapore - Not for another 20 years?

Channel News Asia reports that Singapore is taking a number of steps to try to stay on top of the world non-renewable energy trade. Singapor...

USA: Alternative Energy New York

The New York State Public Service Commission today voted to adopt a renewable energy policy designed to increase to at least 25 percent by 2...

Hybrid Cars: Forbes/Newsweek Discussion

Newsweek Middle East regional editor Christopher Dickey and Forbes.com editor Paul Maidment discuss the future of energy. Topics include en...

Alternative Energy: American as Apple Pie?

There's a great quote from this article on Amendment 37 in Colorado which proposes requiring large utilities to produce 10 percent of th...

America: Spinach Solar Power Source

According to the Boston Business Journal, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has succeeded in combining tiny proteins in spinach wi...

Norway: Improving Wind Power Efficiency

The EETimes reports that a gearless synchronous generator developed by Germany's Siemens and recently installed in a Norwegian wind powe...

Alternative Energy News Blog Celebrates!

distribution of users of the Folding at Home distributed computing project The Alternative Energy News Blog celebrates surpassing one hundre...

Europe: Alternative Energy Iceland - Geothermal

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has won an order from Reykjavik Energy, a city-owned utility in Iceland, to build two 40 MW (m...

Asia: Alternative Energy China - Renewable Energy Revolution?

In a joint press release Greenpeace, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Chinese Renewable Energy Association (CREIA) have a...

Micropower - A mini-power station for your home

a ground source heat pump which produces 3-4 units of heat for every unit of electricity it uses The BBC have a nice article describing how...

High Oil Prices = Less Alternative Energy Investment?

This Newsweek article on alternative energy investment seems to suggest that the high oil prices which mean record profits for oil companies...

Australia: How Not to Subsidise Electricity

Australia's federal government has created a tax break for electricity generated using diesel lowering its cost by a third. Professor An...

U.S. Oil Independence - A Pipe Dream?

There's a great quote from Herman Franssen, president of International Energy Associates in this article. Cutting U.S independence is ...

Exxon - Meeting the World's Toughest Energy Challenges(tm) - I Think Not.

Exxon (the world's biggest energy company) at the 19th World Energy Congress in Sydney, Australia has looked in its crystal ball and pre...

Asia: Alternative Energy Philippines - Wind Power Shows Most Promise

The Philippines' first official flag UPDATE 2.0: The Manila Bulletin reports that the Philippines vowed this week to become the world’s ...

Europe: Alternative Energy Denmark

Copenhagen Business School Mogens Lykketoft, leader of Danish opposition party the Social Democrats, has proposed increasing the percentage ...

World's Largest Solar Energy Plant opened in Germany

The world's largest solar power station officially started production this week in eastern Germany according to an article in Expatica. ...

New Zealand: a Choice between Coal and Nuclear Power?

cover image from the video game "New Zealand Story" This article in New Zealand's Otago Daily Times suggests that nuclear powe...

Alternative Energy South Africa: Time to Prepare for "Post Commodity Economy"

Mining's contribution to South Africa's GDP has shrunk from 14% in 1983 to less than 7% by the end of the 1990s. Gold reserves are o...

Think Big: Plan for Massive Off-Shore Wind Farm in Scotland

Plans for a massive offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth have gained £6m of funding from the the U.K. government. The project will see two ...

India: Solar Power to Light Billboards

The Delhi government in India has decided to make use of solar power compulsory for lighting up hoardings and for street lighting. Article i...

Germany Leads the Way: Using Energy Tariffs to Increase Alternative Energy Use

This article asserts that no country has made a more profound and consistent commitment to rewewable energy as the world's third largest...

Stardust Probe to Reveal AntiMatter Source? - 500 days to go

A mass of data collected in the course of the encounter between the Starburts probe and the comet Wild-2 on 2 January 2004 including about 7...

Carbon Sink Technology Boost for Alternative Energy?

According to climate scientists at the EuroScience Open Forum 2004 governments should be exploring the potential of Negative Emissions Techn...