All Posts Tagged With: "alternative energy"
GE Strengthens Its Commitment to Alternative Energy with a $230 Million Solar Power Investment
General Electric Corp. (GE) is strengthening its commitment to clean energy with a $230 million (150 million euros) investment in Spain’s Fotowatio. The investment, made through GE’s Energy Financial Services unit, will amount to a 32% stake in the solar-energy firm.…
4Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedOur Last Cheap and Abundant Energy Source
Coal Keeps the Lights on in America — Can We Make It Cleaner?
By a wide margin, the United States has the largest coal reserves on the planet. The coal supplies in the U.S. account for 95% of its fossil fuel…
11Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued“WE NEED TO TALK”
There is a looming problem for the renewable energy business. It affects the geothermal producers. As the expression goes, “We need to talk.”
I have argued over and over that in an energy-short future, geothermal power will play a key role…
11Jun2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedU.S. Corn Crop Could Decrease by 10% Further Fueling the Great Ethanol Debate
U.S. farmers will produce 10% less corn this year than they did a year ago, driving demand to a 13-year low and further enflaming global rhetoric aimed at diversion of the staple crop for use in biofuels.
Corn production will…
11Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedFormer Oilman T. Boone Pickens Makes a $2 Billion Bet on Alternative Wind Energy
T. Boone Pickens made his fortune in oil. But now the Dallas oilman and famed former corporate raider is betting $2 billion that he can have the same success with a new source of energy - wind.
Pickens’ Mesa Power LLP…
16May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedMoney Morning Boosts Oil Target Price to $225 a Barrel, Thanks to Continued Scarcity, Burgeoning Demand in China
Money Morning Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald - one of the first global financial gurus to predict triple-digit oil prices - has boosted his target price for crude oil from $187 to $225.
The case for the target-price increase of 20% was…
8May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedAlternative Energy Stocks: NGK turns a profit on wind power

My primary weather experience was in a windswept place, where even calm days had an intermittent 30 mph “breeze.”
And maybe that’s why I can’t get excited about storage for wind-turbine energy. The idea that the wind might stop blowing for…
12Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | Continued




































