]> http://www.greenedia.com/popular/articles/renewable-energy Renewable Energy - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 It's not pretty, it's CO2 capture and storageTomorrow's a big day for Europe and the future of alternative energy development and regional climate efforts - the EU Commission will present its directive on the plan get 20 percent of energy from renewa... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:43:16 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78618?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Staff and students at the University of South Australia have designed and built a prototype of what they reckon might be the future commuter car for Australian cities. Trev sounds rather impressive. He goes from 0 to 100kph in 10 secs, has a top spee... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:40:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78618?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/78509?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 continues...... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:45:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/78509?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78478?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Designboom competitions are so much fun. The theme of the latest was Dining in 2015 and it got 4843 entries from 98 countries. Din-ink, designed by andrea cingoli + paolo emilio bellisario + cristian cellini + francesca fontana from italy, was one of... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:43:17 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78478?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/78334?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Update from Ramallah.IGSHPA instructor and consultant Don MacIntyre shown here with students of the first IGSHPA installers course conducted in the Middle East. The class, all engineers, include two participants from the Palestine Energy & Environmen... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:28:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/78334?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/78157?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 The issue of states' rights was a central and hotly debated one in the late 18th century as the U.S.' Founding Fathers sought to establish an independent nation. It continues to be one today, and environmental laws and regulations are often at the ... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:24:21 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/78157?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77415?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Angus Hutcheson is an AA grad now based in Thailand, developing product and architectural designs. He uses natural, highly renewable materials including timber, raw silk, tree bark and silk cocoons that require minimal energy to process.When a silk d... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:06:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77415?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77194?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Interestingly, another method has come to light (pardon the pun in advance) in creating carbon monoxide from perhaps an even more undesirable source than trash. Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are working on a prototype that will... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:55 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/77194?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/77158?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 1. GM investment may hit ethanol stocks. General Motors (GM) announced that it has purchased an equity stake in ethanol producer Coskata. GM CEO Rick Wagoner says that Coskata has three competitive advantages over corn-based ethanol producers: (1) C... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:10:23 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/77158?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77145?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Solar power might be the most up-and-coming renewable energy source, but one of the biggest drawbacks to solar power plants is their inability to generate electricity at night or during cloudy days. But now, a new venture called SolarReserve hopes to... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77145?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/76935?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Just launched in January 2008,the new windpower investing website www.WindIntell.com offers info on Windpower Stocks, Renewable Power Investing websites, links to wind energy companies, windpower association websites, wind energy stocks, alternative ... Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:36:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/76935?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77041?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 What's a more renewable form of energy than human energy? We've seen it before with the human-powered gyms in Hong Kong, and here's a portable energy source that's powered by the spring in your step. We just discovered this amazingly useful gadget at... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:34:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/77041?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76666?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 What's a more renewable form of energy than human energy? We've seen it before with the human-powered gyms in Hong Kong, and here's a portable energy source that's powered by the spring in your step. We just discovered this amazingly useful gadget at... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:34:26 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76666?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76620?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 We love 2-for-1 devices here at Inhabitat - after all, what's more efficient and environmentally friendly than having one single tool that can serve variety of purposes? That's why we were super excited today at the Consumer Electronics Show to disc... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:18:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76620?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/76581?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Yellowstone Capital Partners LLC of Houston, Texas, recently announced the formation and launch of its second alternative and renewable energy fund -- Yellowstone Energy Ventures II, L.P. ( YEV II ). Yellowstone has substantially completed its invest... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/76581?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/76582?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 EPA recently recognized the accomplishments of numerous landfill methane partners that are generating renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/76582?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/76382?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 With the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary behind us, and Super Duper Tuesday less than a month away, it seems timely to look at where the major presidential candidates stand on energy and energy-related environmental issues. I'd like to st... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:22:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/76382?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76258?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 This post is part of an ongoing series. To access all the profiles in this series, visit The Year Ahead.Who: Warren Leon, director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, a public agency that funds and advances clean energy technologies, and co-... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:00:07 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76258?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/76163?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 For many years there was a general sense in the oil world that OPEC had learned an important lesson from the energy crisis of the 1970s: let the price get too high for too long, and their customers will find ways to reduce their demand, by becoming m... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:58:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/76163?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76200?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 A new renewable energy laboratory that will serve to find investments for renewable energy projects and create jobs was launched in late December in Montevideo, Uruguay. The idea for the laboratory was born during a regional ministerial meeting on en... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:19:59 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/76200?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/76005?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By biodiversivist This is my hybrid bike charging at a 7-11 while I ate some lunch. I was hauling a heavy load and had been tormenting another cyclist who had been trying to close a 10-foot gap with me for a couple of miles on Sand Point Way. I took... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:39:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/76005?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76038?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts today in Sin City, but despite the nickname, CES 2008 is supposedly greener than ever this year, showing a real environmental conscience touching on issues like material sustainability and energy efficiency.... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:32:24 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76038?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/75942?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 When I was writing last Wednesday's posting on the year ahead, I was tempted to call 2008 the Year of Biofuel. That's wasn't because I think biofuel will necessarily be the most important energy development of the year, but because, of all of the pro... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:49:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/75942?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76522?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 What is the next frontier in renewable energy? People! And no, we don't mean them being used as in soylent green, but rather, to use the energy generated from the movement of large numbers of pedestrians through an occupied space. We've already high... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:18:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/76522?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75898?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By David RobertsResponding to some of the comments on Dot Earth: Obama is right that a cap-and-trade program with 100% auctioned permits would be the functional equivalent of a carbon tax. Yes that does, in Richardson's rather daft phrase, take mo... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:24:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75898?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75864?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By Joseph RommI am a big fan of the climate website, DeSmogBlog. So I was shocked when, the day after his unprecedented victory in Iowa, DeSmogBlog gave Barack Obama the inaugural 2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming. Gimme ... Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:04:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75864?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/75822?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Renewable energy stocks rose in December 2007 after theSenate passed a revised energy bill designed to cut U.S dependence onimported oil by imposing the biggest increase in fuel-efficiency standards in32 years. ... Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:25:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/75822?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/75765?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Nate Hagens at The Oil Drum just wrote a review of a paper by Professor Charles Hall, who like Nate and myself also contributed a chapter to the renewable energy book that will be published later in...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi... Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:03:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/r-squared-energy-blog/75765?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75704?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By David RobertsThe Renewable Portfolio Standard will return to Congress. Multiple Dems have vowed that the RPS will return as a separate bill when Congress is back in session. I believe them exactly 87%. Despite the recent energy bill debacle, the... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:57:49 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75704?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/metaefficient/75729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Solar power is a truly efficient source of energy, but it tends to flutate, and, as you might know, it turns off at night. One clever way to alleivate this intermittence is to store solar energy in the form of heat using molten salt. An aerospace com... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:54:04 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/metaefficient/75729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75649?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By Joseph RommThe following guest post is by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), originally published on Climate Progress. He is the co-author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. ----- Now that our New Year's Eve party hats are p... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:00:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75649?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/metaefficient/75730?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 We've featured quite a bit of optimal and sustainable clothing over the years, but what about those devices you use to hang up your clothing? We mentioned the bioplastic hangers, available from Earthsaver. Now, the Great American Hanger Company has l... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:47:13 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/metaefficient/75730?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory//?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/75632?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Wafer-thin solar cells brings green power closerNew energy uses for asphalt Shell, Biopetroleum to build algae plant Europe's biodiesel drive sputtersBurning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil, say experts... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:29:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/75632?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/76414?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 IT industry leaders are increasingly finding that going ???green??? is good business. In addition to increasing the energy efficiency of its operations and making use of more economically viable renewable power sources, companies such as HP are expa... Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:30:55 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/76414?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/75567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 AquaBuOY, the tidal energy-harnessing progeny of Finavera Renewables, has found its first commercial taker in the United States. Pacific Gas and Electric (likely in a response to California state law requiring 20% of energy from utilities to be rene... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:56:30 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/ecogeek/75567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75486?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By Joseph RommThe appropriations omnibus bill just passed through Congress recommends that the Export-Import Bank provide 10 percent of its financing capacity to promote the export of clean energy products and services. This was a recommendation... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:54:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75486?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75452?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By David Roberts The Lieberman-Warner climate bill will go to the Senate floor. After a largely uneventful committee hearing, LW is set to be introduced on the floor of the Senate in the early months of 2008, where it will face a bruising battle. O... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:47:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75452?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75422?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 United Technologies Corp.'s Hamilton Sundstrand unit, is teaming with US Renewables Group to commercialize a solar-power plant that will use molten salt to store the sun's heat and release it in a controlled manner for steady steam turbine power gen... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:54:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75422?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-balance/75364?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 The notion of thermodynamics (energy requirements) and kinetics (rate) is implicit in chemical reactions, but the same principles attend all putative strategies to install new technologies to deal with the world's impending energy-crisis, mainly auge... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:34:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-balance/75364?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75386?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 How about planting some wildflowers every month of this New Year? Canadian based Botanical Paperworks' Plantable Eco Calendar guides you through 2008 with its handmade monthly desk calendar that creates beauty and leaves nothing behind but flowers... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:58:15 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75386?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75351?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 By Guest authorThe following is a guest essay by Peter Barnes of the Tomales Bay Institute, Robert Costanza of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Paul Hawken of the Natural Capital Institute, David Orr of the Lewis Center for Environment... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:23:19 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/75351?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75435?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., and US Renewables Group have agreed to commercialize the concentrated solar power tower technology and corresponding molten salt storage system developed by Rocketdyne through a new enti... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75435?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75436?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 GreenHunter Energy, Inc., a renewable energy company that is focused on developing a portfolio of clean energy assets including the country's largest biodiesel refinery located in Houston, Texas, wind energy projects located in Montana, New Mexico, a... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/75436?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/75342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 A new company has entered the thermal solar field. Per their press release: Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. [NYSE: UTX], and US Renewables Group have formed a new entity, SolarReserve, to commercialize the concentrated ... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:56:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-blog/75342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75249?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 We're into recycling and we're into electric cars, so it would make sense that we're into this presentation on converting a 72 Karmann Ghia to full electric drive. We do kind of wish there was some video footage to go along with the slide show. Still... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:05:03 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/75249?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/75192?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 The complex uncertainties affecting energy markets will probably undo most of the forecasts that analysts and economists seem obliged to offer, as the new year dawns. I prefer to highlight the trends I'm following, since those tend to be more durable... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/75192?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/75018?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52 Here are a few stories and posts regarding alternative energy investing, Middle east peace, solar energy technology and renewable power stocks in 2007:Solar Electricity generation in Africa prevent global warmingGreen Power investing spurred by new a... Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:46:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/75018?rsstype=populararticles&cid=52