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Let’s drill for heat, not oil

August 6, 2010

Guest post by: Tom Rand We’ve hit the bottom of the global oil barrel. Thousands of rigs far out at sea stick giant straws through more than a mile of sea-water, and drill down for miles more to pierce our remaining pockets of oil. Those pockets may be big enough to wreck the Gulf, but [...]

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See how big the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is

May 11, 2010

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20th left 17 workers injured, 11 missing and a tragically high number of wildlife species threatened with extinction. It is yet another grim reminder that the future belongs to renewable energy. Fossil fuel is dirty, dangerous and anachronic. This incredible graph presentation can help you visualize how [...]

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Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy

March 22, 2010

Last week we blogged about the growth of wind energy worldwide. And it seems like renewable energy is starting to become an important of Latin American economy, according to an IPS report. Technorati Tags: Electricity, Energy, Fossil fuel, Latin America, Photovoltaics, Renewable, Renewable energy, Wind power, Wind turbine Related Posts:Norway to start testing world’s largest [...]

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Is the algal biofuel dream about to come true?

March 15, 2010

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been at the forefront of technological breakthroughs for many decades – computer networking, NLS (the first type of hypertext system) – and now its research into algal fuel seems to be yielding results, or so it says. Technorati Tags: Air Force, Algae, Algae fuel, Biofuel, DARPA, Energy, [...]

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New wave of criticism against biofuels hits the media

February 15, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The week has not started off on a good note for biofuels. As the European biofuel industry prepares to meet in Amsterdam in mid-March, a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warns that “business-as-usual agricultural expansion to meet biofuel production targets for 2020 will take [...]

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