Investments in Green Technologies Climb
While Europe and the Middle East outpace the rest of the world, investment in environmentally sustainable technology has now become commonplace for the movers and shakers of the financial world.

Total investments in clean technology rose 41% from 2005 levels and are poised to rise even higher. More …
Weather Puts a Damper on Biofuels Market
The recent stormy weather that brought flooding to America’s midwestern farms had a huge impact on corn, soy and other biofuel components. With the forecast indicating that this type of weather, possibly a result of global warming, is here to stay into the future, biofuels are looking less and less like a good idea.

Prominent experts on the environment and alternative energy are suggesting that we would be wise not to pin our hopes on alternative energy sources that are easily affected by the weather.
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Trash to Energy Comes to Ontario
Plasco Energy Group is set to build the first trash to energy plant in North America in Ontario. Impossible until now, Plasco’s low heat method of gasifying trash is the secret to its success in generating power.

While there have been other trash incinerators, none has used this method to generate more power than they consume. More …
New Wave Generator Idea Based on a Snake
The Anaconda, a project from the University of Southampton, may someday provide the solution to the problem of generating wave energy profitably and practically. It’s a long, thin enclosed tube with a turbine at one end.

How it produces energy is the fascinating subject of a video and an explanation that has to be seen to be believed. More …
BLM Reverses Moratorium on Solar Installations
Just days after it had announced that there would be no more permits for solar plants on public land, the Bureau of Land Management had a change of heart. This may have been because of the huge public outcry that arose around its decision.

With 125 major projects in the works, solar power companies weren’t about to just roll over and neither was the public. More …

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