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Big Oil Taking Small Steps Toward Big Renewable Energy Profits
3:00PM 7/19/2011
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The oil industry giants are embracing alternative technologies -- including biofuels, geothermal and solar. Right now, renewable sources provide only a tiny fraction of the profits they derive from oil and gas, but they'll have a real impact on the revenues of majors like BP, Exxon Mobil and Chevron in the not-so-distant future.
Masdar Gives Up Plans to Produce All of Its Own Power
1:30PM 10/10/2010
Masdar, the $22 billion green city that United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi is building in the desert just outside its borders, has canceled its plans to generate all of its own clean energy and to emit zero carbon -- and says it's running at least four years behind schedule.
Alternative energy down on the farm: A still-untapped resource
9:15PM 11/08/2009
As the federal government hands out billions of dollars to subsidize, push, prod and canoodle companies into jump-starting a green revolution in the U.S., one segment of the economy has been more or less left out. That would be farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has gotten only a few tens...
Google (GOOG) may be a search engine giant, but it's also a leading player in alternative energy. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are extremely keen on promoting clean-energy initiatives. Through the company's non-profit Google.org, they've invested indirectly in a number of interesting...
Plans for solar power from outer space move forward
7:00AM 9/26/2009
A California technology startup is rapidly pushing forward with plans to build the first space-based solar power station to beam 200 megawatts of electricity back to Earth via microwaves to a receiving station near Fresno. The firm, Solaren Space, has been pushing for space-based power since 2001...
Fear of earthquakes halts promising geothermal projects
1:20PM 9/14/2009
Not too long ago green energy activists hailed geothermal power as the best way to generate cheap, clean power with minimal environmental impact or carbon emissions. That view has been thoroughly shaken by incidents around deep-drilling geothermal projects linked to nearby earthquakes.
Now energy...
The Golden State has, of late, lost considerable luster, what with prison riots, budget problems, and massive wildfires started by Mexican drug cartels. Add to these woes a whopping price tag for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious renewable energy program. The Guvernator's plan has...
Heidi Fleiss has shelved her plans to open up a brothel for women and has turned her sight to the world of alternative energy. However, the green world is not exactly rolling out the carpet for the ex-Hollywood madam, which is a pity.
Fleiss, who grabbed headlines in the 1990s after being arrested...
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