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Alternative Energy

China’s Clean-Energy Ambitions And The Role Of The U.S.

While we in the West are focused on innovative thinking, China is focused on innovative doing: they know that if they can make one, they can make a million; and in the energy field, this is increasingly becoming their edge.READ MORE

10 Clean Energy Trends To Watch In 2011 And Beyond

As the clean energy industry emerges from a challenging period caused by the global economic downturn, it is entering a stage of rapid change in which business models are being transformed against a backdrop of regulatory uncertainty. READ MORE

Engineered Bacteria Can Convert Sunlight, CO2 Into Diesel Fuel

In early 2011, researchers patented a process involving a genetically-modified form of blue-green bacteria that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide directly into diesel fuel.READ MORE

Fruit Tree Biomass Waste Turns Into Energy Source for Malaysia

The country's leading sustainable players in the palm oil industry are now turning to their own waste for power.READ MORE

Solar Power Comes to Saudi Arabia in a Big Way as Peak Oil Looms

"It's really a preservation decision using solar for domestic consumption and keeping your oil for more lucrative export markets," says the Middle East director of BP Solar.READ MORE

Ecomagination Challenge: Transit Tunnels That Power New York City?

A proposal in the GE-backed contest shows how it could be done.READ MORE

Tajikistan's Energy Expansion Lures Canada and China

The country was already developing its hydropower resources when it stumbled upon enough gas to supply the country for the next 50 years. Now the energy dynamics of the region are entirely altered.READ MORE

For Eco-Friendly Santas: Algae Milk and Cookies

Algae isn't just about fuel any more. Milk, cookies and Omega-3 oil are just a few of dozens of lucrative products, some of which are already raking in the green.READ MORE

Watch Out, Cape Wind: Deepwater Wind Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.

Deepwater Wind proposed this week the biggest off-shore wind farm ever in the U.S.--a deepwater wind farm near Rhode Island that will include 200 wind turbines and power up to 800,000 homes at a cost of $5 billion dollars. READ MORE

The Tallest Man-Made Structure, or a Load of Hot Air?

The green power company EnviroMission recently entered into a buying agreement with a Californian utility, but some onlookers are skeptical.READ MORE

Biogas Gets Its Moment

Texas to sell biogas to the public.READ MORE

E-Fuel MicroFusion Reactor: An Ethanol Production Device Made for Home

In the final stages of Series A funding, E-Fuel's new device has the power to take ordinary waste and generate billions of gallons of fuel.READ MORE

Are Wind Farms Further Dividing Socio-Economic Classes?

Fresh opposition to wind farms from the U.K.'s elite causes concern for the future of alternative energy and social disparities.READ MORE

The Downside of Clean Natural Gas: Contaminated Water

Natural gas is undoubtedly a practical source of electricity generation; it's plentiful, burns relatively clean, and produces minimal carbon dioxide. All good things--unless you happen to live near a drilling site.READ MORE

Ikea Denver Leads the Way for Big Box Geothermal Installations

An Ikea store in Denver, Colorado is set to lead the charge for big box geothermal installations.READ MORE

Personal Energy Systems: Get Yours in 2012

A newly discovered catalyst can jump-start the separation of oxygen from water to power fuel cells for the home, a professor from MIT told peers at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Personal energy systems ...READ MORE

Self-Cleaning Solar Panel Technology, Courtesy of Mars

What if solar panels could clean themselves?READ MORE

Windy City's Gusts Supply Power to Stylish Turbines

If you say it right, “urban turbine” rhymes. But can it move beyond its oxymoronic wordplay and into the real world? Designers and architects are beginning to say yes.READ MORE