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• 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2018

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  We need a massive increase in electricity generated from alternative energy.
  
  Here's Al Gore's vision:
  
  
  
  Here's one way to achieve 100% Carbon Free Electricity
  
  Thoughts?' [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2008, 12:04am EDT
  by James

• Why are Oil Prices So High?

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  Why are oil prices so high? This is the question being asked with increasing frequency in many countries around the world. Some would have you believe that the blame should be placed on "greedy oil companies", "Arabs", "speculators" or "OPEC".
  
  While speculation is happening with [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2008, 8:14am EDT
  

• House Passes 15% Renewable Energy by 2020

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  The United States House of Representatives has passed an Energy Bill requiring utility companies to produce 15 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020.
  
  The Bill passed in the House on a 241-172 vote, despite strong [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2007, 8:57am EDT
  

• Brief Analysis of Climate Change Report

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  Here’s my brief analysis of and comments on the recent IPCC working group report on Mitigation of Climate Change released from Bangkok, Thailand as it relates to alternative energy.
  
  Energy Efficient & Net Zero Energy Buildings
  
  Energy efficiency and renewable energy are rightly held [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2007, 6:41am EDT
  

• Seeing Red: Palm Oil Biodiesel

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  In the enthusiasm for renewable energy and taking care of our environment, it is easy to assume that making fuel from plants (biofuel) must be by definition "green" and renewable. However when it comes to energy issues, easy assumptions can be dangerous assumptions. In previous years [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2007, 6:08am EST
  

• City Utilities End Coal Fired Electricity Contracts in California

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  In what is hopefully the start of a new trend, several Southern California cities have decided not to renew long-term contracts for coal-fired electricity, choosing instead to turn to cleaner sources of electricity.
  
  City officials told Utah-based Intermountain Power Agency they wouldn't be renewing' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2006, 6:52pm EST
  

• $402m Tidal Energy Plant For New Zealand

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  New Zealand’s Northern Advocate reports that a US $402 million (NZ $600m) proposal to generate electricity with 200 tidal-powered turbines submerged at the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour could get under way next year. The harbour is one of the largest in the world. It’s a [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2006, 7:30pm EST
  

• Buy This Alternative Book

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  Here at the Alternative Energy Blog, while not underestimating the scale of the challenges facing the world, we like to talk about solutions. Another website that has consistently done this is World Changing, which started as an award winning group blog, became a non-profit and [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2006, 2:11pm EST
  

• Clean Coal or Dirty Coal?

  Number of comments: 31
  When President Bush said “America is addicted to oil”, he could also have said that America is addicted to coal.
  
  Most Americans are not aware of the sheer scale of current coal use in the United States. Over 50% of electricity is generated from coal with 20 pounds [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2006, 4:51am EDT
  

• Plug-In Hybrid Campaign

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  I encourage everyone to sign this online plug in hybrid campaign urging automakers to produce plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The petition basically says, 'If you build it, we will buy it.' Plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles are key to energy independence and reducing pollution.
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  Posted: September 03, 2006, 3:58am EDT
  

• Is Ethanol / E85 Fuel the Solution?

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  I've recently received a number of emails calling for me to Kick the Oil Habit by supporting E85 which is a liquid fuel made up of 85% ethanol and 15% regular gasoline. Having previously had my doubts about ethanol I emailed fellow blogger [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2006, 2:12pm EDT
  

• Why Alternative Energy?

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  A poll carried carried out for the BBC World Service of nearly 20,000 people from across 19 countries found wide support for alternative energy strategies.
  
  The poll illustrates a perceived triple threat from the way the world produces and uses energy.
  
  Majorities across all [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2006, 1:00pm EDT
  

• $4b Investment in Wind Power by BP Alternative Energy

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  BP is making its first major investment in wind power with a joint venture that will lead to a major expansion of its generating capacity.
  
  The oil company announced it had entered a five-year supply and development agreement involving five wind power projects in the [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2006, 12:15pm EDT
  

• Alternative Energy Inspires Young Scientists

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  In Indianapolis a number of the 1,500 young scientists competing in the International Science and Engineering Fair for $4 million dollars in prizes and scholarships pursued alternative energy innovations.
  
  Seventeen year old Allison Wilson from Stuart, Iowa, won $11,000 in scholarships by making ethanol fuel [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2006, 4:41am EDT
  

• Ethanol Fuel in South Africa

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  photo (c) 2005 Julia Freeman
  
  Tumi Makgetla reports in South Africa's Mail & Guardian that while an interest in alternative energy and green politics is often seen as the preserve of the chattering classes, working-class people in Johannesburg's inner city are already using renewable energy [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2006, 4:15pm EDT
  

• Austin Energy Excels as #1 Green Energy Electricity Utility in America

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  UPDATE: This is a list of the top ten green energy programs in the United States with the latest December 2005 figures and links to these electric utilities. One of the biggest differences we can make is to switch to "green energy" - energy generated from [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2006, 7:00am EDT
  

• Mixed Signals & Federal Funding for Alternative Energy Research

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  There have definitely been some mixed signals on alternative energy research recently. At the same time President Bush's State of the Union address called for a 22 percent increase in federal spending to develop alternative energies, dozens of staffers and contractors for the National Renewable' [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2006, 2:22pm EST
  

• Austin Energy Excels as #1 Green Energy Electricity Utility in America

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  UPDATE: This is a list of the top ten green energy programs in the United States with the latest December 2005 figures and links to these electric utilities. One of the biggest differences we can make is to switch to "green energy" - energy generated from [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2006, 5:43pm EST
  

• Alternative Energy Argentina: Bringing Wind Power to Remote Areas

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  Max Seitz reports for the BBC that wind power is the most widespread renewable energy source in Argentina - and Patagonia in particular has extraordinary potential due to its strong and constant winds.
  
  He travelled to southern Chubut province, about 890 miles south of Buenos [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2006, 2:29pm EST
  

• Alternative Energy Ecuador: 15MW Windfarm for Loja

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  Vilcabamba, Loja Province, Ecuador
  
  Ecuadorian company Villonaco Wind Power, 80%-owned by Canadian alternative energy generator Protocol Energy, is scheduled to begin construction of a 15MW wind park this month in Ecuador's Loja province, Protocol chairman and CEO Thomas Logan told BNamericas.
  
  Villonaco is 20%-controlled by' [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2006, 6:35pm EST
  

• China to Spend Billions on Alternative Energy

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  China is to spend billions on alternative energy and many times more on oil and coal.
  
  Tim Johnson of Knight Ridder reports that barely a dozen years ago the country didn't need deep-sea oil ports, massive tank farms and a brawny foreign policy to procure' [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2006, 5:07pm EST
  

• Top Ten UK Alternative Energy Projects

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  Solar Powered CIS Tower in Manchester
  
  The UK’s top ten alternative energy projects have been named by the UK government’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). They include offshore turbines in Kent, the solar-powered CIS tower in Manchester and a wave buoy in Cornwall.
  
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  Posted: December 31, 2005, 4:31pm EST
  

• Australia: Alternative Energy Grants

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  Geothermal Plant
  
  From geothermal power to better batteries, millions have been spent on alternative energy research grants in Australia, according to Rod Myer writing for The Age of Australia.
  
  The AUD $23 million (approximately $17 million) spent by the Australian Federal Government under the [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2005, 8:44am EST
  

• Alternative Energy Hungary: First Windfarm in Hungary

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  Kaposvar
  
  Austrian company Öko-Energia GmbH is to invest Ft60 billion ($284.6 million) in establishing the first wind farm in Hungary, in the south Rábaköz region, 150km west of Budapest. Forty-eight wind turbines will be built, at a price of between Ft500-800m ($2.37-3.79m) and producing 2,000 kilowatts [...]
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  Posted: December 25, 2005, 7:35pm EST
  

• Alternative Energy in Central America

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  Managua, Nicaragua
  
  Cancún, Mexico - With the signing of an energy partnership with Mexico, Central America is poised to see a steady supply of oil and natural gas from its northern neighbor.
  
  Mexico's focus on hydrocarbons was clear in the plan, drafted by Mexican officials,' [...]
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  Posted: December 24, 2005, 7:12pm EST
  

• Alternative Energy Kazakhstan: Wind Power

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  Tian Shan Mountains
  
  Kazakhstan plans to build a five megawatt wind power station by 2010 at Dzungarian Gates near the Chinese border as part of an electric energy industry development programme.
  
  The Global Environmental Facility approved a fund of $2.5 million, while the government allotted [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2005, 7:50am EST
  

• Energy Freedom Challenge: Clean Energy Capital of the United States of America

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  Austin 8 News reports that Austin, Texas is to host a nationwide competition and the prize is the title of "Clean Energy Capital of the U.S."
  
  The group Solar Austin pitched the idea of the contest to the U.S. Department of Energy. The [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2005, 12:12pm EST