Shanghai Daily. SAIC Motor, China’s largest automaker, plans to invest 12 billion yuan (US$1.76 billion) in the next three to five years to develop new-energy vehicles.
The investment will divvied up between 41 projects under its blueprint for environmentally friendly vehicles and SAIC plans to pour 2.1 billion yuan [US$307 [...]
Despite the horsetrading, the bill gets the big things right
by Adam Stein
Thomas Friedman makes a bunch of very good points in his recent column on the Waxman Markey climate change bill that just passed in the House. But the opening comes on awfully strong:
There is much in the [...]
For the future of the car, look west to Silicon Valley. And then further west, to China.
by Adam Stein
Are you a fan of cheap symbolism? Well then, feast on this: a popular and successful electric car used to be produced in the United States under the [...]
The European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) has issued a second call for proposals for research. Around €140 million (US$196 million) has been allocated to this second call, with €71.3 million by the Commission matched by in-kind contributions of the industrial partners. The FCH JTI, [...]
Increasingly, [...]
Invention captures the energy in fluttering fabric
by Adam Stein
We’ve covered micro-wind a number of times here, but I think this may be the coolest innovation I’ve seen in a while: inventor Shawn Frayne has come up with a device that harnesses the power of wind without [...]
Author Richard Heinberg writes [...]
"Life on Earth is under serious threat," the International U-nion for Conservation of [...]
Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said the Garona plant in northern Spain, which had been designed to function only until 2011 [...]
Cyclone Power Technologies has achieved positive results from performance tests recently conducted on its Waste Heat Engine (WHE) (earlier post), and expects the final stage of testing prior to on-site beta installation to begin in July.
The WHE is a self-starting steam engine capable of producing up to 18 [...]
Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.
That April 2001 report, "Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century," was prepared [...]
Japan Post Service Co. will deploy 40 electric vehicles this fiscal year, with the first units in operation later this month.
The i-MiEV and Plug-in Stella. Click to enlarge.The company is signing five-year leases for 20 units apiece of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV and the Subaru Plug-In Stella. [...]
The European Commission said a repeat of January's energy shortfall was likely if Ukraine failed to raise €4.2m needed to pay for Russian gas supplies required to fill its [...]
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a world-class carbon composites manufacturing Center of Excellence on the TUM campus in Garching, near Munich, Germany. The Center of Excellence will focus [...]
Taiwan-based E-One Moli Energy Corp. (Molicel) is building a new lithium-ion battery plant in Taiwan with a monthly production capacity of 12 million units.
The expansion will make E-One Moli one of the world’s top manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries. The company says that it will focus on the laptop-computer, cordless [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- One year ago, on July 3, 2008, oil prices settled at a record high -- a once-unthinkable $145.29 a barrel
On Thursday, it settled at $66.73, less than [...]
Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased 5.2% by volume in June 2009 year-on-year to 26,205 units, representing 3% of new vehicles sold—marking the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008, and [...]
On a' [...]
Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion
Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.
That [...]
TESIS DYNAware and IAV Automotive Engineering presented the second generation of the thermodynamic real-time simulation software DYNA4 Engine Themos.
For the development of engine control units (ECUs), DYNA4 Engine Themos performs function development as well as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) applications. The software can accurately represent the entire engine process, so [...]
Eighteen of 37 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News, or 49 percent, said futures will decline through July 10. Nine respondents, or 24 percent, said the market [...]
Researchers at Ohio University have developed a new technology that accomplishes the direct conversion of urine and urea to pure hydrogen via electrochemical oxidation with an inexpensive nickel catalyst.
Hydrogen production from urine. Credit: RSC. Click to enlarge.A report on the work led by Professor Gerardine G. Botte [...]
In this Podcast, Curt Friesen of the Nebraska Corn Board, talks about the launch of the Sustaining Innovation campaign - why it is important and some of the messages corn farmers in the state are emphasizing.LONDON - PVM Oil Associates, the world's biggest over-the-counter oil brokerage, says it lost nearly $10 million this week because of unauthorized trades that caused a temporary spike in Brent crude markets.
The firm said in a statement late Thursday that it [...]
It seems as though the darkest clouds are finally dissipating over alt energy's financing horizon. Over the past few weeks, money has started flowing into the sector again, as evidenced by a number of recent deal announcements:
On June 9, I reported on the upcoming [...]
Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks) submits: This article continues my Clean Energy Stocks Shopping List series. So far I've brought you:
Five clean transport stocks,I looked at why it makes sense to wait for better prices,Five Energy Efficiency stocks (always my favorite' [...]The US House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment recently approved H.R. 1622, which will restart a natural gas vehicle (NGV) R&D program at the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory had earlier led the Next Generation Natural Gas Vehicles [...]
Long-time readers will know I made a lot of outperformance in the coal space in late 2007 through mid 2008. While everyone was in oil, I was pounding the table in the stealth rally in coal. [Dec 6, 2007: Coal Stocks Quietly in a Bull Market]
One [...]
The wild Soay sheep that live on the island of Hirta in the North Atlantic have been under careful scientific observation since 1985, partly because the island ecosystem is a simple one [...]
The report by Germany's Wuppertal Institute for Climate for Greenpeace and the [...]
Renewable energy--green power--is in the news and on the floor of Congress. The Senate is currently mulling over a bill from the House of Representatives to implement sweeping changes to America's energy sector. Billions of dollars could be added to our national debt to subsidize a fledgling green energy industry.
The [...]
Any notion that the invasion of Iraq was simply an oil grab took another hit on Tuesday when Baghdad opened the bidding on the rights to develop its massive energy reserves. In a day-long auction of eight huge oil fields — some of the world's biggest — virtually all the [...]
For some strange reason, my critics love hurling ad hominem attacks concerning my attempts to educate Americans on our impending water shortages, energy crisis, species extinctions, climate destabilization and a Pandora's Box of forthcoming harsh realities facing America as it inundates itself with relentless immigration. Therefore, this two part series [...]
LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - Iraqi plans to raise oil output to 6 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2017 are likely to be over optimistic, the International Energy Agency said on Monday, saying oil capacity could fall over the next two years.
The IEA said in its Medium-Term Oil Market [...]
Warming suspected; freshwater shortages for some Pacific isles likely
Earth's most prominent rain band, near the equator, has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile a year for three centuries, likely because of a warming world, scientists say.
The band supplies fresh water to almost a billion people [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it was extending the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels.
The proposed changes to the 2007 U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard attempt to make production of corn-based ethanol more efficient and increase output [...]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq plans to bring forward a second bidding round for major energy contracts and may give foreign firms another run at oilfields that were left over after this week's sale, which clinched only one deal.
The country's second bidding round of energy deals "was supposed to be at" [...]
