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House bill on solar energy needs to go dark – The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Az)

Our view: ‘Job killer’ would undo ACC mandate on renewable sources There they go again. This time an Arizona House panel has voted to overturn
an Arizona Corporation Commission alternative-energy mandate and to strip the
commission of its authority to impose such requirements. HB 2701 is almost

Companies Work to Harness the Power of Waves

March 2, 2010 — Harnessing the ocean waves for emission-free power seems like a tidy concept, but the ocean is anything but tidy. Waves crash from multiple directions on a seemingly random basis, and converting the kinetic energy into electricity is a frontier of alternative energy research that requires grappling with large unknowns. << Full Story >>

Parsing fact from fiction with the Bloom Energy box

CNET’s Martin LaMonica is horrified he missed last week’s alternative energy hoopla. Now he’s trying to make sense of the excitement.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? ; Enough for plenty of energy sources – Concord Monitor (Concord, Nh)

When it comes to alternative energy, New Hampshire’s wind and solar
potential is adequate at best. The natural resource we have plenty of is wood. All those trees covering New Hampshire can be burned for firewood, turned
into pellets to burn for heat, burned to spin turbines and make electricity

City must build on green energy momentum: Butland; COUNCIL; – The Sault Star

Now that Sault Ste. Marie has declared itself the Alternative
Energy Capital of North America, it wants to remain the leader of
the pact. And Ward 1 Coun. Steve Butland is hoping to get the nod from city
council today (Monday) that will move the city’s alternative energy
committee to the next

Timm Herdt: In California, a return to the Stone Age? – Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Ca)

IT’S AN odd place to find wisdom, in a television commercial, but
thanks to the people at Honda perhaps the most poetic expression of the
rationale for developing alternative energy is now reaching a mass audience:
“The Stone Age didn’t end because people ran out of stones.” As best I can

INSTITUTE SITE: ; $45 million biodiesel plant back on track – Charleston Gazette (Charleston, Wv)

An Illinois-based alternative energy company has renewed plans to
build a $45 million biodiesel plant at the Bayer CropScience site in Institute. Kanawha Biodiesel, a subsidiary of Emerald Biofuels of Goff, Ill., hopes to
start construction by December and complete the facility a year later. The

Recycling firm close to clinching deal for plant – The Journal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Uk)

ASMALL County Durham recycling firm is bringing a revolutionary
German green energy technology to the UK and is close to securing a deal to
build the first pounds 4m plant in the region. Plasrec has also attracted US interest in the alternative energy producing
equipment, which uses waste such as

Solar energy can be used to combat climate change: Experts – The Hindustan Times

NOIDA (Uttar Pradesh), Feb. 9 — Solar energy can be used to combat
climate change, scientists from India and Australia said during an Indo-
Australian Solar Energy Workshop held here on Tuesday. This view was expressed at the Amity Institute of Renewable and Alternative
Energy-sponsored two-day

Climate change options for Congress in 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Wednesday, he is expected to promote alternative energy as a way of tackling global warming problems and creating more domestic jobs.