Five Shining Examples of Renewable Energy Innovation and Investment
- Sinking revenues and shrinking policy support may be causing a bit of a haze on the renewable energy horizon, but there's plenty of sunshine trying to peek through if you look hard enough.
Thu, 17 May 2012 12:34:00 GMT
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House Armed Services Committee Proposes Ban on Biofuels
- Just one month before the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in Hawaii, the world's largest international maritime exercise, the biofuels industry has encountered a possible roadblock. The House Armed Services Committee issued its report on next year's Pentagon budget, which inclues a measure that would exclude the development and purchase of biofuels that cost more than traditional fossil fuels.
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:35:13 GMT
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Solar FIT Fallout: Germany's Environment Minister Forced Out
- The European shake-up continues as Germany's powerful Minister of the Environment Norbert Roettgen was fired Thursday as Chancellor Angela Merkel looks to hold onto power following her party's regional election loss over the weekend.
Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:48 GMT
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The $6 Gasoline That Almost Was
- A landmark 2009 study, conducted by researchers at Iowa State's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, and updated this week for impacts through 2011, found that US ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of $1.09 per gallon, in 2011.
Wed, 16 May 2012 14:03:42 GMT
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EGS Takes Geothermal Global
- As ancient as the earth itself, unharnessed geothermal energy most often bubbles to the surface in geological hot spots long known for geysers and naturally-boiling mud pots.
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:15:41 GMT
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