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Credit crisis may halt Pickins` largest wind farm in the world
The credit crunch is not just hurting the banks and the real estate market. Even the billionaire and wind energy enthusiast, T. Boone Pickens is having trouble financing his high profile 4000 MW wind farm. The price tag on this Texas wind farm is a ...
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Beyond the banks: bail out the environment and create jobs
As capital markets around the world are being rescued by national governments, global unemployment is reaching record levels and the labor market is expanding by tens of millions of workers each year. In the face of the twin challenges of stagnating ...
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Ethiopia signs EUR 200m deal for largest wind farm in Africa
Ethiopia on Thursday signed a 220-million-euro (300 million dollar) deal with a French company for the construction of Africa`s largest wind farm. The contract was inked by representatives of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPC) and ...
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Benefits of the bailout bill for green consumers
So say what you like about the bailout bill that was passed last week in the House, but it includes some pretty excellent benefits for those of us Americans looking to embrace energy-saving and renewable energy. The bill makes it cheaper for ...
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Big emitters facing carbon limits
Sectoral industry agreements have received considerable attention for their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But developing countries remain wary. As talks between the 160 nations party to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
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Northeast US puts on the carbon cap
For the first time, a carbon market is opening for business in the United States. The long awaited Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), takes effect on January 1, 2009. Utilities in ten states—Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, ...
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US$100bn could yield 2 million US `green` jobs - report says
A $100 billion U.S. government investment over two years could create 2 million `green` jobs in such industrial sectors as steel and construction, environmental and labor groups said on Tuesday. `From the point of view of the steelworkers union, ...
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Manure `smells like money` as energy costs rise
With energy prices driving the cost of agricultural inputs up, nutrient-rich manure is getting another look. `Calls to Extension offices from people looking for manure and manure compost have increased in recent months,` says Tommy Bass, Montana ...
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Solar powered system helps reduce ship`s emissions - Innovation on the high seas
Japan’s largest shipping line, Nippon Yusen KK, has teamed with Nippon Oil Corporation in developing a system of solar panels capable of generating 40 kilowatts of electricity for use on a 60,000 ton cargo ship for Toyota Motor Corporation. Unlike ...
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Failing grades for carbon emitters down under
Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia. The 2008 WWF-Australia Power Generators Carbon Future Score Card assessed 19 of Australia’s power ...
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From Mules to Biofuels
Farmers and policymakers are wrestling with two main concerns when it comes to ethanol production: the effect of ethanol demand on food prices, and changes in land use that are detrimental to the environment. While families were sharing corn at ...
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Wind energy bumps into power grid`s limits
When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent US$320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple ...
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Iceland fills up on hydrogen
Earlier this year, the Icelandic whale-watching boat Elding was fitted with a hydrogen-powered generator that fuels its lighting system, electric equipment and navigation machinery. It is the first of its kind in the world. The hydrogen generator ...
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Hydrogen-producing bacteria provide clean energy
A new `green` technology developed cooperatively by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and North Carolina State University (NC State) could lead to production of hydrogen from nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Renewable sources of ...
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Algae: Biofuel of the future?
In the world of alternative fuels, there may be nothing greener than pond scum. Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight ...
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Is Obama`s energy plan change we can believe in?
On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the US energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm, it was `easily the best energy plan ever put forward ...
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Cogeneration can slash carbon and costs
Cogeneration of electricity and heat is one of the most promising means of using existing technologies for sustainable ends, but it is also one of the most neglected and least understood. Cogeneration can dramatically increase energy efficiency, ...
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Small hydroelectric dams not so green, say experts
The combined impacts of numerous small hydroelectric dams in one river basin can be at least as harmful as one large dam, warn experts, environmental activists and indigenous groups, who face a flood of new projects along the rivers of the western ...
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Exports account for one-third of China’s emissions
As Chinese manufacturers feed a growing global appetite for cheap goods, these exports account for a rising share of the country`s greenhouse gas emissions, a new study reveals. Exports are now responsible for one-third of China`s emissions, ...
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US now world leader in wind power production, says AWEA
US wind capacity is expected to increase 45% in 2008 although Congress` failure to extend the production tax credit (PTC) for the renewable energy industry threatens to derail further development, according to the American Wind Energy Association ...