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Mitt Romney’s Views on Conventional and Alternative Energy

Mitt Romney has an excellent chance of becoming our next president.  He won the primary in New Hampshire today. His website contains a lot of excellent information about him and his views. For his views on conventional and alternative energy, please visit mittromney.com/jobs/energy .

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa Concludes

Dec 12, 2011 – The international United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban concluded after generating mostly hot air!  The expression we hear many times with the politicians with regard to fixing the economy is that they are kicking the can down the road.  The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is being extended for several [...]

EPA Revises Air Pollution Rule

Oct 25, 2011 – The USA EPA is proposing to ease air pollution rules from the regulations it issued in July 2011.  The regulations mainly affects coal-fired power plants.  Please leave your comments here.

Promote Your Business With GreenEnergyForEarth Blog Advertising

Sep 2, 2011 – Promote your green energy business on GreenEnergyForEarth.com with annual or monthly advertisements to a highly targeted audience.  You can place text or graphic ads.  Do you install solar panels?  Do you sell solar pool heating? Do  you invest in green energy projects from solar to wind to biodiesel?  Are you beginning [...]

Happy Earth Day: Get Involved with Green Energy

Apr 22, 2011 – Happy Earth Day!  Get involved with Green Energy by subscribing to GreenEnergyForEarth.com and writing posts and comments here. List your events,  list and search for green energy jobs, list and search for green energy business opportunities.  If it is related to green energy,  place it or find it at http://www.GreenEnergyForEarth.com.

German Firms Move Toward Postnuclear Economy

Apr 14, 2011 – The New York Times reports on the ongoing move to green energy in Germany that is accelerating since the Japanese nuclear plant damage.  Nuclear energy supplies 22.3 %  of Germany’s electricity while coal provides 42 %, natural gas 13.6 % and renewable energies 16.5 %, according to the German Environment Ministry. [...]

New Nuclear Power Plants in United States

The following video from CNN compares nuclear power to solar power, wind energy, natural gas and clean coal. It mentions that new nuclear power plants will be built and one is currently under construction in Bay City, Texas.

Advertising: Earthjustice & Wind Turbines

Oct 16. 2010 – Pictures of wind turbines seem to be in every ad, even if it is not on TV or on the web where you can see movement.  Solar panels get much less coverage in advertising.  Earthjustice.org claims to “using the courts to stop the construction of dirty coal plants and encourage carbon-free [...]

Wanted Green Energy Writers & Bloggers

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Siemens to supply technology for new IGCC project in the U.S.

Jul  19, 2010 – Siemens Energy has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC project will use coal as its feedstock. With a gross capacity of 400 megawatt [...]

Siemens Awarded USD8.9 million Grant from Department of Energy to Build its First CO2 Capture Project for Coal-fired Power Plants in the U.S.A.

Jul 19, 2010 – This project will demonstrate new POSTCAP technology, utilizing salt as a solvent for CO2 absorption.  Siemens Energy is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant for treating a slipstream (1 MW equivalent) at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate POSTCAP technology for post-combustion CO2 gas capture.  The [...]

Siemens Burning Biomass as Climate Friendly Alternative to Coal

July 7, 2010 – Siemens is testing the combined combustion of coal and biomass, a climate-neutral fuel.  A Siemens burner was fired with coal dust and plant-based microcultures for the first time. The new energy source demonstrated good combustion properties. The nitrogen oxide emissions were approximately 20 percent lower than when operating the burner with [...]

For Earth Day, 7 New Rules to Live By

QT423YZ33XPT  Apr 24, 2010 – John Tierney reports on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in The New York Times.  He has some information from Stewart Brand’s new book, “Whole Earth Discipline,” in which he urges greens to “question convenient fables.” How on target were the green movement leaders over the last 4 decades? “1. [...]

This Nuclear Option is Nuclear

Apr 14, 2010 – George F. Will reports in Newsweek that “This Nuclear Option is Nuclear” interesting statistics about nuclear energy and its competitive forms of energy production.  First, safety.  He points out the large number of miners that have been killed mining coal from accidents as well as from industry-specific diseases.  This compares to [...]

Loans and Stimulus For Alternative Energy

This video with Steven Chu,  Energy Secretary, discusses the future demand for alternative energy.