Archive for the 'NATURAL GAS' Category

Loans and Stimulus For Alternative Energy

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

Mar 5, 2010 — Jad Mouawad reports in The New York Times that FPL Group “is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.  Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the … utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors and thousands of steel pylons that stretch as far [...]

Bloom Box Generates Electric Power From Many Sources

Siemens awarded 2 Climate Innovation Prizes by German Environment Ministry

Feb 11, 2010 – Siemens Technologies took first place in 2 categories of the first Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment awarded by Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry and the Federation of German Industries (BDI).  German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and BDI Director General Werner Schnappauf presented the awards – totaling €125,000 – to winners in [...]

Ads Continued: NRDC donated by Peter Morton

Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter  Morton [Who is he?].  The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]

Rentech Announces Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2010

Feb 10, 2010 – Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: RTK) announced results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter ended December 31, 2009 and provided guidance for the fiscal year.
For the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, Rentech reported revenue of $27.1 million, compared to $50.8 million for the comparable quarter in the prior year. The decrease [...]

President Touts His Alternative Fuels Plan

Feb 4, 2010 – John M. Broder reports in The New York Times that President Obama moved on Wednesday to bolster the nation’s production of corn-based ethanol and other alternative liquid fuels and ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.
The president is trying to expand the [...]

BP Doubles PV Module Shipments: Reports Solid 4Q Results

Feb 3, 2010 – BP reported a sharp year-on-year increase in 4Q profits as it announced that its oil and gas production increased by more than 4% in 2009 and the company continued its industry-leading 17-year run of increasing reserves.
The increase in production was well ahead of the company’s expected long-term average growth rate of [...]

NYC Panel Suggests 100 Ways Buildings Can Be Greener

Feb 2, 2010 – Mireya Navarro reports in The New York Times that a panel of experts convened by the mayor and City Council issued more than 100 recommendations Monday on how to make New York City’s building codes more environmentally sound by imposing energy-saving requirements on construction and renovation work.
The measures, presented to Mayor [...]

Dec 16, 2009 -
Cleantech Forum San Francisco, on February 24-26th , 2010 at The Palace Hotel will help define the maturing cleantech market. The Forum is themed “Taking Cleantech to Scale” to focus on corporate integration of cleantech into growth strategies, new financing for innovation and infrastructure and global government engagement [...]

Copenhagen Meeting – President Barack Obama

Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting?  If so, please provide your comments here.  USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world.  People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]

Big Utility to Close 11 Plants Using Coal

Dec 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald writes “Big Utility To Close 11 Plants Using Coal” in The New York Times.  A large Southern utility said Tuesday that it would close 30 percent of its North Carolina coal-fired power plants by 2017, a step that represents a bet that natural gas prices will [...]

Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target

Nov 26, 2009 – Get the details of Obama’s visit to Copenhagen in John M. Broder’s article in The New York Times.

Ads Continued: Shell Oil

Nov 22, 3009 – Shell Oil also has a 2-page ad featuring all the good things they are doing with green energy for the blue planet, earth.  “FOR THE NEW ENERGY FUTURE, WE NEED TO MAKE IT ALL ADD UP.”  Then ther is a picture of a pseudocalculator with one plus button that says, “MORE [...]

Business of Green

Nov 19, 2009 -  The New York Times published a full section titled “Business of Grren” Nov 19, 2009.   The following articles are included.  Click on the title to go to The New York Times article.  “Making Renewables Reliable“, “Storm Over the Chamber“, “A Surplus of Energy That Might Even Last“, “Companies Call Government Incentives [...]