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Israel Unleashes Gold Rush for Solar Power
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
JERUSALEM (Nov. 27) -- The race is on to tap into a potential $20 billion solar energy bonanza in Israel's southern wilderness that could transform the nation into the first in the world to power its electric grids through renewable energy. The starting gun sounded Sunday with the signing of a historic agreement between the Israel Electric Corp. and a solar energy producer based on Kibbutz Ketura, a tiny collective farm in the barren Arava desert on the Israel-Jordan border. For years, Israel has been exporting its cutting-edge solar technology for use abroad, but it has never been applied at ...
Peak Oil Is Here: What Should We Do?
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas made a dire prediction today. The world has been extracting oil from the earth for just 150 years, but "peak oil," the point at which fuel production will begin to decrease while demand continues to increase, has finally come. "We are at the point of no return," said Jim Baldauf, ASPO-USA president. "Without affordable energy to drive our economy, we can expect price spikes and economic crisis to be the new normal. The debate about peak oil is over; it is time for bold action. If we do not change our current approach, we will see ...
White House to Get Solar Panels Above Obamas' Living Quarters
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyHere comes the sun: The most famous house in America is going solar -- again. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the White House is getting solar panels atop the first family's living quarters to heat water and provide some electricity. The cost of the project is not clear, but Chu said the panels should be installed by next spring, the Associated Press reported. Way back in the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter had a $35,000 solar water-heating system for West Wing offices. And President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, put in a solar system to power a maintenance building and ...
Obama Solyndra Solar Plant Visit Clouded By Controversy
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyA dark cloud has settled over the President's trip to sunny Northern California today, and it has everything to do with his photo-op to promote jobs purportedly saved and created by the Recovery act at solar panel production company Solyndra. President Obama toured the Solyndra plant in Freemont, Calif. and gave an address before the press and state officials, including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, outlining his vision for a thriving U.S. alternative energy sector buoyed by government funding. "The promise of clean energy isn't just an article of faith," Obama said, "It's not ...
Foreign Firms Dominate Wind Energy in U.S., Land Stimulus Dollars
By Investigative Reporting Workshop - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, former President George W. Bush was the star speaker for WINDPOWER 2010 in Dallas, a conference and exhibition hosted by the American Wind Energy Association. AWEA is one of the many rich, professional associations in Washington, D.C., that collects dues from member companies and amalgamates their interests into legislative agendas. It is, in short, a lobbying group. AWEA also claims credit for being "the voice of wind energy in the U.S." by representing "more than 2,500 member companies" and offering a possible solution to the government's dream agenda for energy and ...
Energy Crisis: Just Give It to the Greens
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Pew Study Salutes Pentagon for Eco-Friendly Thinking
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 20) -- An organization that buys jet fuel by the billions of gallons and gets around in gas-guzzling tanks seems an unlikely leader in the effort to go green. But according to a report released today by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, the U.S. military is making great strides in curbing its appetite for fossil fuels. "This whole [Defense Department] is mobilized and thinking green," said John Warner, the former Navy secretary and Virginia senator, who worked with the Pew Project on its study. For instance, he said, troops in Afghanistan are using ...
Energy Battle Heats Up as Dems, Administration Begin Global Warming Push
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama went to Iowa yesterday for Earth day to tout his plan to remake the nation's energy policy by funding so-called "green energy" alternatives. The president visited the town of Newton, Iowa, home to a factory in a former Maytag plant that produces structural components for windmills. Key to Obama's energy and economic policy is an increase in jobs manufactuing and producing alternative sources of energy.The trip comes as Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill get set to do battle over the Administration's proposed "cap and trade" system for factory emissions. The ...
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