http://www.inveslogic.com/popular/articles/alternative-energy Alternative Energy - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106231?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The commercialization scenario. Click to enlarge.Leading automakers in and outside Japan and Japanese energy companies have agreed on a scenario which sees commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and hydrogen stations beginning in Jap... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:08:59 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106231?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106224?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Potential for NYC annual municipal GHG reductions of 1.68 million metric tons (mt) per year by project group. Click to enlarge.New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a long-term, $2.3-billion action plan to reduce energy consumption and g... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106224?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106225?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The heads of ethanol associations from the Brazil, Canada, Europe and the US have sent a joint letter to the leaders of the G8 making the case for the importance of biofuels in reducing the growing demand for oil and the corresponding escalation in p... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:21:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106225?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1106074?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 07/08/2008 - Novozymes has selected Blair, Nebraska as the location for its new production facility bringing approximately 100 new jobs to the state initially...... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1106074?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106226?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 SunPine s tall oil process produces either crude tall diesel for hydroprocessing at a refinery or standard biodiesel. Click to enlarge.Preem, S dra and Sveaskog have signed an agreement to acquire approximately 60% of the shares of SunPine AB, ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:12:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106226?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106227?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Proposed trajectory of EU biofuels policy. The orange sectionprovides a guaranteed market for renewable fuels to develop while controlmeasures are introduced. Green illustrates a proposed mandatory obligation for advanced technology fuels from approp... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:58:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106227?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106228?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Argonne has developed a new tool ARDAQ for onboard data collection from and diagnostics of PHEVs. Click to enlarge.The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on ... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:43:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106228?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106232?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Reuters. After a three-day meeting over the weekend in Paris, European Union ministers said that what had been taken as an increasingly controverisal 10% target for biofuels alone in transportation fuel by 2020 was actually a 10% target for all renew... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:22:34 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1106232?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/oil-drum/1105966?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 [break]WHY ARE WE ADDICTED TO OIL? Selfish behaviors are reward driven and innate, wired deeply into the survival mechanisms of the primitive brain, and when consistently reinforced, they will run away to greed, with its associated craving for mone... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:05:15 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/oil-drum/1105966?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1106146?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 From Reuters: Toyota to add solar panels to Prius hybrid: Nikkei Toyota Motor Corp (TM) plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars, becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a vehicle, the Nikkei business d... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:36:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1106146?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106426?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Even with the poor outlook for the economy, there are many investment opportunities being created by high energy prices and the low dollar, notes Jim Powell (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/ccount/click.php?id=2164). In his Global Changes & Opport... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106426?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105720?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof of the next-generation Prius to supply part of the 2-5 kW needed to power vehicle auxiliaries, such as the air conditioning system. The next-generat... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:21:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105720?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1106076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 07/07/2008 - According to the company, the funds will be used to provide for Intelligent Energy's growth plans as it moves towards commercialisation of its hydrogen fuel cell technology in applications across a broad range of global target markets...... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1106076?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1105491?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 I know a couple of people who have put solar panels on the rooftop of their hybrid cars. In fact, Michael Angemeer, chief executive of a large distribution utility northeast of Toronto called Veridian, drives around town in a plug-in hybrid Prius wi... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:22:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1105491?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/1106413?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Overture to peace in the West BankArticle from TheStar.com - Visiting musicians help give Arab youth the power of music at Violinist' campJuly 05, 2008 Oakland Ross, Middle East BureauThe Toronto StarAL-FARA, West Bank Take a limestone prison tha... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:58:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/1106413?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105721?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Nikkei. Combined sales of Toyota and Honda hybrid-electric vehicles in Japan rose to 51,758 units in the first half of 2008 a 21.5% increase compared to the same period last year.With fuel economy an issue amid skyrocketing gasoline prices, sales o... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:00:47 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105721?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105722?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Combining cost-effective vehicle efficiency technologies with in-use practice and lower-carbon fuel could result in GHG emissions from light-duty vehicles below the level emitted in 1990. Click to enlarge. Source: Lutsey (2008)A new report published ... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:58:56 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105722?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/1106414?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Hanging On - Endangered Species in OntarioTheStar.com - GTA - Hanging on The province has identified the Jefferson salamander as a threatened species. The vulnerable Jefferson salamander just one of several species threatened by exemptions in prote... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:19:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/solar-intelligence/1106414?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1105585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 click to enlarge image... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:30:57 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1105585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105726?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly have passed HB 1202, a bill requiring that transportation fuels sold in Pennsylvania include increasing amounts of biodiesel, synthetic diesel or renewable diesel (in diesel fuel); and cellulosic ethan... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:04:35 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105726?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105727?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Itarum Participa es S.A., Petrobras and Mitsui have formed a 60-20-20 joint venture to produce sugarcane ethanol for export to Japan, North America and Europe. Project location. Click to enlarge.The partners will build a 200,000 kiloliter/year (... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:00:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105727?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The Government of Ontario is providing C$7.5 million (US$7.4M) to support two biofuel projects.Ontario is providing C$5 million to support the new Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources at the University of Western Ontario s (... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:16:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105729?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105731?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 by Jack RosebroIndia has published its first National Action Plan On Climate Change (NAPCC)[1], which outlines the government s strategy and goals with respect to energy, climate change adaption, climate change mitigation, and resource manage... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:49:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105731?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105733?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The white contour lines illustrate the expected maximum pH decrease of average surface ocean waters in the future (in pH units) as a function of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions (in petagrams of carbon) and release time (in years). Click to enlargeS... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:03:32 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105733?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105734?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The UK Guardian reports that a confidential World Bank report obtained by the newspaper concludes that biofuels have contributed almost half of the global increase in food prices a much larger contribution to the price increases than estimated prev... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:10:05 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105734?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105736?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 A new report from Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the market for electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe will rise to more than 250,000 units per year by 2015.Automakers have little choice but to be part of the EV, market according to the report, Strategic... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:31:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105736?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105737?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has added the 2008 Tesla Roadster and 2008 ZENN neighborhood electric vehicle to the list of vehicles eligible for rebates under the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Program (also known as Fueling Alternati... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105737?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105743?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The mini-Hybrid cooling system. Click to enlarge.Engineered Machined Products Inc. (EMP) will supply its electrified cooling systems to bus maker New Flyer Industries Inc. for use on municipal transit buses. The modular, fully customizable kit replac... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:09:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105743?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106432?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 They don t get much more blue-chip than General Electric (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=ge) (NYSE: GE (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=ge)), says Nilus Mattive (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/ccount/click.php?id=216... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106432?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1105497?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Blog...Well ask and you shall receive I guess... On monday, my colleague and I called on the federal Bureau of Land Management to stop being an Energy Delayer and lift a moratorium that locked up the vast reserves o... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1105497?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105747?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Based on supply chain and cost issues, the UK-based Tanfield Group is retrenching its Smith Electric Vehicles (SEV) business. In a trading update published 1 July, in advance of its interim results, the Tanfield Group said that its Directors have mad... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:27:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105747?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105748?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Rotrex has developed an electrically-driven fully variable supercharger for automotive and transportation markets. In addition to its first application on a fuel cell hybrid, the product is also targeted for mild- and full-hybrid systems.Due to the d... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:42:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105748?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105749?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Botryococcus braunii, subject of one of the sequencing projects, is a microalga that produces long-chain hydrocarbons. Source: NIESThe US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) will initiate 44 new DNA sequencing projects in 2009, wi... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:58:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105749?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1105582?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Brazilian ethanol producers have long sought a level playing field on which to compete with their US counterparts, and this week they are launching a campaign to publicize their message that ethanol derived from sugar cane could be imported from Braz... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1105582?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104855?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 ConocoPhillips signed a $5 million, multi-year sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) (earlier post), a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert ... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104855?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/science-blog/1105197?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Administration of minute amounts of inhaled or intravenous hydrogen sulfide, or H2S the molecule that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench significantly improves survival from extreme blood loss in rats.read more... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:29:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/science-blog/1105197?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104742?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Further government intervention will be required in order to meet the policy goal of supplying 20% of US power needs by 2030, according to a recent analysis by the Congressional Research Service. Although windpower currently provides only about 1% of... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:51:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104742?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104746?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Solar stocks are again feeling the heat from a report that Spain plans sharp reductions in subsidies for solar power. On Friday, a number of solar stocks dropped sharply after Lehman s Vishal Shah asserted in a research note that the country was co... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:25:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104746?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1105129?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Wood has many demands. The slowdown in US housing and the end of mass shipments of chipboard to Iraq to build endless concrete barricades has created surplus... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:50:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1105129?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1104686?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 i am writing a special letter for SNS. Here are some stats I have been collecting about oil and renewable liquid fuel industry from jan 2004 thru May 2008. A couple things jump out.1. Oil stocks have been winners, ethanol companies loosers.2. The... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:31:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1104686?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gog2g-converting-green-to-green/1104370?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The world's most heavily traded sugar futures contract, Sugar No. 11 on the ICE, rose Tuesday 4.6% to 13.72 cents per pound after UNICA reported that Brazil will use more sugarcane than expected for ethanol production as crude oil continues its push ... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:17:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gog2g-converting-green-to-green/1104370?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104860?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Toyota says it is pursuing all of these energy and powertrain pathways. The brick walls in the diagram represent barriers to be overcome. Click to enlarge.In a presentation at the recent Toyota Environmental Forum held in June in Japan, Masatami Taki... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:52:14 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104860?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104755?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Are you interested in wind energy, but don't have billions to invest like T. Boone Pickens? Are you afraid that you are going to pick the next pets.com, and not ebay.com? Don't fear. IndexUniverse.com is reporting that the PowerShares Nasdaq OMX Clea... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:39:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/etf-investor/1104755?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104862?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Syntec Biofuel Inc. has, over the past 30 days, consistently achieved more than 110 gallons of alcohols (ethanol, methanol, n-butanol and n-propanol) per ton (US) of biomass. In February, the company reported a yield of 105 gallons per ton of biomass... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:23:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104862?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104711?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Wind power is widely seen as the alternative energy source that'sclosest to prime time. Wind can compete head-to-head on a cost basis,without subsidies, with most other kinds of electrical generating power.FirstTrust launched the first wind-power ETF... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:43:59 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104711?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104712?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 New cost effective solar energy products are on the near horizon. Let's take a look at some of the promising ones.MIT reports prototype solar dish passes first tests.Ateam led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype ofwhat may be th... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:02:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104712?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 By Helen Aki and Jesse Jenkins, cross-posted from the Breakthrough BlogJust as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block in the path of solar pow... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:01:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 Xcel Energy (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=xel) (NYSE: XEL (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=xel)) has offered low risk and steady gains for several years as the utility recovered from a brush with bankruptcy, says Roge... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/stock-advisors/1106439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104714?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 I'm trying to build a 3 position basket of alternative energy (non-solar) names. I started this basket with a small stake in American Superconductor (AMSC) which I actually added a bit to here as it pulls back to $36 and fills a gap from June 9th.... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:41:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-stock-blog/1104714?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104864?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18 The new B6-B20 biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester) blends will have a blue label at the pump to distinguish the fuel from others. B100 will have its own blue label. Click to enlarge. The ASTM International D02 Main Committee approved a trio of ASTM s... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:58:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104864?rsstype=populararticles&cid=18