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Wireless Power Transmission
Monday, 2 Apr, 2007 – 11:21 | No Comment

A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air.
How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, …

U.S. & European renewable energy legacies.
Monday, 2 Apr, 2007 – 10:55 | No Comment

Last month, Former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore called for an “electranet” that would allow homeowners to “put up photovoltaic generators and small wind [turbines]… without any artificial caps.” Unfortunately, he did not explain that Europe …

More fossil fuels and faith in the private sector
Monday, 2 Apr, 2007 – 10:51 | No Comment

As part of its commitment to solve the global problems of energy poverty and climate change, in March the World Bank co-sponsored a conference in London to consider global energy options, and launched the Carbon …

Ohio seeks limelight as next corridor of energy innovation
Monday, 2 Apr, 2007 – 9:51 | No Comment

COLUMBUS, Ohio – New York had its Silicon Alley, Michigan its Automation Alley and Illinois its Silicon Prairie.
Now comes Ohio in the parade of Silicon Valley wannabes.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Gov. Ted Strickland, both …

Alternative energy summit planned for Croke Park
Monday, 2 Apr, 2007 – 9:48 | No Comment

The Sunday Business Post will be holding the inaugural Alternative, Sustainable & Renewable Energy Summit in Croke Park, Dublin, on April 23 and 24.
This year is likely to become a boom year for alternative energy, …

Peak Oil Hits the Mainstream
Friday, 30 Mar, 2007 – 0:00 | No Comment

Energy issues have been front and center over the past few days, what with the escalating tensions with Iran, the run-up in crude prices, and the release of a GAO (Government Accountability Office) report on the threat posed by peak oil.

Peak Oil Hits the Mainstream
Thursday, 29 Mar, 2007 – 23:00 | No Comment

Energy issues have been front and center over the past few days, what with the escalating tensions with Iran, the run-up in crude prices, and the release of a GAO (Government Accountability Office) report on the threat posed by peak oil.

No Easy Answers
Wednesday, 28 Mar, 2007 – 0:00 | No Comment

If you read this blog regularly (thanks, Mom!), you may have gotten the impression (correctly) that I’m not terribly bullish on ethanol. Renewable, domestic, clean n green: What’s not to like?

No Easy Answers
Tuesday, 27 Mar, 2007 – 23:00 | No Comment

If you read this blog regularly (thanks, Mom!), you may have gotten the impression (correctly) that I’m not terribly bullish on ethanol. Renewable, domestic, clean n green: What’s not to like?

George and the Big Three
Monday, 26 Mar, 2007 – 0:00 | No Comment

So the Pres met with the CEO’s of the big three automakers today. I’d love to have been a fly on that wall… did he give them the tongue-lashing they deserve?