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Two new illustrations about how the US has stiff competition around the world in renewable energy: New York Times reports on how China has beaten the United St

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All the regulatory paper shuffling required to get the 240 MW Cape Wind project started is finally coming to an end.

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Now that we've got some distance from the 'biofuels are going to save us, oh wait they're going to kill everything else' hysteria of a couple years back and some sane skepticism has emerged, how well are we doing?

Advocates say harnessing the Gulf Stream could create one-third of Florida's energy needs.

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The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined.

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A few years ago I got into a heated debate about Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth with a green-minded friend of mine. My hippy friend couldn't stand the movie—not because of anything it said, but because of the 'hypocrisy' of flying around the world to preach about climate change.

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There've been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need so that construction can start: The US Bureau of Land Management has issued a fin

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As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging.

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From announcing he would develop a "wind-powered" electric sports car, to the day the Nemesis electric car finally hit the track at 100mph, it's been a long and winding r

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No sooner do we hear that the Scots have developed a biofuel from whisky distillery byproducts, that the tequila industry announces it wants in on the waste-