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Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing Offers To Buy EDF's UK Electricity Network For $9 Bln - Update
A consortium controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing has offered Friday to buy the UK electricity networks of French power group EDF Energy Plc for GBP 5.78 billion or about HK$ 69.99 billion. In U.S. dollar terms, the offer price is about $9 ...
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Make your home more energy efficient
Host Tess Vigeland and Marketplace Sustainability reporter Adrienne Hill discuss methods you can use today to help reduce energy use and those hefty electric bills.
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Automotive X Prize Finalists (PHOTOS): 9 Cars That Could Change The World
They're aerodynamic, they're snappy, and, best of all, they're efficient.The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize has announced the finalists in its competition to develop a new breed of energy efficient vehicles.Just 9 cars (down from 136) ...
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California Cash for Appliances expands to energy-efficient dishwashers, water heaters and HVAC systems
But officials are hoping that giving Californians even more options will push the program into high gear.
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Energy department funds center dedicated to artificial photosynthesis
Nature : Photovoltaic solar panels convert sunlight into electrical energy with efficiencies up to 20%. No photosynthesizing plant, alga, or bacterium can match that efficiencysugar cane comes closest with 8. But the photosynthesizers have one big ...
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Algae Biofuel Grown in Bioreactors Has 3.7x the Carbon Footprint of Petro-Diesel: Study
photo: jurveston via flickrAlgae biofuels are probably the most touted future hope to replace large amounts of petroleum-based liquid fuels with a renewable source. However, a new study in Energy and Fuels shows that when you grow that algae in ...
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High-Grade Corporate Bond Indices Update (at Seeking Alpha)
By Rom Badilla and Maulik Mody Corporate bonds were mostly flat Thursday, as seen by the iTB high grade Corporate Bond indices. Good earnings in the energy and finance sector and poor revenues by utilities and consumer companies fuelled the bonds ...
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Return of butterfly we feared was on the verge of extinction
One of Europes most threatened butterflies has returned to its old haunts in Tyrone and Fermanagh, experts have revealed. Related Stories Dismay over scrapping of green group Dolphins follow in wake of Rathlin whale Redesign UK energy policy for the ...
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California pulls home-energy stimulus funding in PACE dispute
by Jonathan Hiskes.Morefallout from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's opposition to PropertyAssessed Clean Energy :California pulled funding for its home solar andenergy-retrofit loans yesterday in response to federal mortgage overseers'negative ...
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Plenty of Ink: Feeble new Senate energy bill does give electric cars a boost. Time for reporters to dig into the claims on their efficiency?
The last few days have seen a burst of political ink on the foundering of a once sort-of-ambitious U.S. Senate energy bill - now stripped of significant tactics aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. But it does have a few things of green tinge, ...
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Earnings roundup: Sierra Wireless posts strong 2Q results, DTE Energy net income climbs
Among the earnings stories for Friday, July 30, from AP Financial News:
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Thoughts on an Ethanol Pipeline
Join the forum discussion on this postLocal Production for Local NeedsI currently live in Hawaii, and one thing I hope to help facilitate is for Hawaii to become more sustainable in food and energy. We have the natural resources here to be largely ...
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Nature, Energy, Technology Wow Moments [Greg Laden's Blog]
Can a fly's eye(s) be used for solar cells? Apparently so. Speaking of which, I have a gripe. Nuclear power supporters have always ignored the fact that Nuclear power (a.k.a. "unlimited safe free energy") is more expensive than other traditional ...
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Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home
Judging by looks alone, you 'd never guess that the simple one-and-a-half-story house on a residential street outside rhus, Denmark, is anything more than an ordinary single-family home. The stylish little house has the broad windows and long sloping ...
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Sympathy for the Oil Industry.
Yesterday, as reported by The Washington Independent 's Andrew Restuccia , Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski came out swinging against Democrats who attack the Republican energy bill as a "bailout" for the oil industry:The Republican bill holds oil ...
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U. S. oil company may pay a huge fine for oil spillage off Ghana coast: official
U. S. oil company Kosmos Energy would soon be made to cough up a huge sum of money, yet to be determined, in fines for oil spillage off the Ghana coast, a senior government official said in Accra on Thursday. Edward Omane-Boamah, deputy minister ...
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US, India sign nuclear reprocessing pact
The United States and India signed an agreement Friday enabling the Asian power to reprocess American nuclear material, a key requirement under their landmark atomic energy pact.
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X Prize Foundation launches Oil Cleanup X Challenge
The X Prize Foundation has inspired innovation through a series of contests to further space exploration, human genome study, and automotive energy efficiency. Now the group is turning its sites to oil cleanup, a need that has become all too apparent ...
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Why no campus protest over Berkeley-BP connection?
Given the events in the Gulf of Mexico, one would think the cozy relationship between the university and the oil giant in the form of the Energy Biosciences Institute would have set off an uproar by now.
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CATM, CLNE, ENOC, GFI, HAL, HUM, FSLR, WFR, MYL, POT, SINA, RNWK, WDC)
These are some of this Fridays top analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Cardtronics Inc.( NASDAQ: CATM) Started as Neutral at UBS. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.( NASDAQ: CLNE) Cut to Underperform at National Bank. EnerNOC, ..
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GeoPetro Resources Company (GPR) Updates Status of Alaska Project
GeoPetro Resources Company (GPR) issued a status report on the Alaska Cook Inlet Project, the companys oil and gas development project located in Alaska. GeoPetro Resources Company has exercised its contractual right to convey to Linc Energy, the ...
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Climate Change: The Last Resort
It may seem premature to talk about last-ditch measures to deal with runaway climate change, but Ben Lieberman has it right. Lieberman, an energy expert at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think-tank, responded to the news that the United States ...
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Oil Plumes Not Found; Seafood Tests Safe
On day 102 of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it seems that the oil is getting harder and harder to find, both on the ocean's surface and in the depths below. Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico - BP - Environment - Energy
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How to Make Strategic Election Reform go Viral?
Any ideas? I am always in need of help with communicating this idea for folks, like why it would make a diff and be a better way forward than putting a lot of energy into campaign finance reform, or IRV or pining away for a European system of ...
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German wind growth down, exports strong
BERLIN, July 30 (UPI) -- The German wind energy industry dominates global export numbers, but at home, turbine installations are slowing down. Wind power - Wind - Energy - Renewable - Business
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NASCARs Pocono Raceway goes solar
Laying claim to the world's largest solar-powered sports facility - providing enough excess electricity to power 1,000 nearby homes. NASCAR - Pocono Raceway - Energy - Renewable - Solar
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Nuclear Energy Of The Future (at Investopedia)
Recent discussion has focused on expanding the nuclear energy capabilities within the United States.
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Pocono Raceway flips switch on solar, says it's world's largest solar-powered sports facility
Pocono Raceway has the flipped the switch on a solar energy system that leaders say will make the NASCAR track the world's largest solar-powered sports facility.
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Cosmic Dust and the 2010 Lindau Nobel Meeting on Elementary Particles in Cosmology
BackgroundThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is of interest to astronomers because elementary particles are thought related to Big Bang cosmology through dark matter and energy in an expanding...
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Britain looks to nuclear and wind power to avert energy crisis (3)
The Green Deal is his department's flagship program, costing 90 billion pounds (about 135 billion U.S. dollars). It will offer loans to households to make energy efficiencies, and the borrowers can then repay the loans over time from the savings they ...
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