100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2018

We need a massive increase in electricity generated from alternative energy. Here's Al Gore's vision: Here's one way to achieve ...

House Passes 15% Renewable Energy by 2020

The United States House of Representatives has passed an Energy Bill requiring utility companies to produce 15 per cent of their electricity...

Brief Analysis of Climate Change Report

Here’s my brief analysis of and comments on the recent IPCC working group report on Mitigation of Climate Change released from Bangkok, Thai...

Seeing Red: Palm Oil Biodiesel

In the enthusiasm for renewable energy and taking care of our environment, it is easy to assume that making fuel from plants (biofuel) must ...

Is Ethanol / E85 Fuel the Solution?

I've recently received a number of emails calling for me to Kick the Oil Habit by supporting E85 which is a liquid fuel made up of 85% ...

Why Alternative Energy?

A poll carried carried out for the BBC World Service of nearly 20,000 people from across 19 countries found wide support for alternative ene...

Mixed Signals & Federal Funding for Alternative Energy Research

There have definitely been some mixed signals on alternative energy research recently. At the same time President Bush's State of the Un...

Alternative Fuel: Ethanol Fuel Production Subsidies

I was recently taken to task by a reader for not giving more coverage to ethanol fuel (alcohol). I replied that I am yet to be convinced tha...

World Leaders Needed: The Future of Oil and Everything Else

Today's post is inspired by an engineer, details of which I'll get to later. Energy is the future. Our future depends on energy. Man...

Energy Independence vs. Energy Illiteracy

Americans overwhelmingly want a new direction for U.S. energy policy in the United States and believe dependence on imported oil is a very s...

University of Illinois at Chicago Study Provides Boost for Wind Power

Mike Ramsey reports in the PJStar that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's proposed renewable energy standards for electric utilities would generate ...

Wind Energy: Nasa Funded Study Identifies 72 Terawatts of Global Wind Power Potential

Stanford researchers have produced a new map that pinpoints where the world's winds are fast enough to produce wind power. The map may h...

Alternative Energy in Developing Countries: New U.N. Report

a Ghanaian woman A United Nations environment agency survey has revealed the potential for renewable energy in some of the world's devel...

Nuclear Power: Nuclear Energy Back on the Agenda for Britain?

Robert Edwards writes in Scotland's Sunday Herald about the resurgence of nuclear lobby in the UK: Nuclear power is back on the agenda w...

Alternate Energy China: Renewable Energy Law sets 10% Target

BBC News reports that China's government has passed a renewable energy law which is intended to increase production of energy from susta...

Alternative Energy California: A Million Solar Power Homes?

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new plan to make California a world leader in solar energy. It drops a previous provision, ...

Wave Energy News: USA, UK and South Africa

There are multiple ways to tap the energy of the ocean, including its tides, thermal features, and salinity. But wave energy appears to be t...

Wave Power: Energy Buoy to Lead to Wavefarm?

BBC News reports that a pioneering project to harness wave power off the coast of north Cornwall, England is being monitored by scientists a...

Alternative Fuel Cars: Plug-In Hybrids and Electric Cars

fueling by plugging in The Christian Science Monitor has an article on plug-in hybrids. Not long after Dan Kroushl got his new 2004 Toyota P...

Alternative Energy Cuba: Four Wind Turbines for Guantanamo Bay

Four new wind turbines are being installed at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and are projected to save $1.5 million in annual oi...