What will be the result of an ethanol lobbying group’s request to the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the ethanol blending cap for gasoline? If the brief history of President Obama’s administration is any guide, the answer may be “not well”. The former senator from a corn state appears to have put little energy into supporting ethanol. That’s surprising to...
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March 2009
Following an announcement last week that utility NRG would build 500 megawatts of solar thermal generation with eSolar designs, a Pasadena, Calif. company, has scored another coup, this time with an Indian company called The ACME Group, for development of a full gigawatt of capacity. These are big deals, but that detail alone is not terribly significant — other solar thermal companies...
A favorite theme of some oil pundits today is that following the low demand of the recession, the United States will suffer through a painful price crunch. Oil companies, they say, will need years to build their production back up, while demand for transportation fuel, the end use for 70 percent of our oil according to theEIA, will recover far more quickly. The first point is certainly true;...
The beginning of 2009 is proving an active and not at all disappointing period for solar power, with changes will no doubt shape the industry’s future. This Monday, that meant the takeover of swathes of the utility-scale market for solar panels by First Solar and the Spanish company Fotowatio. The companies managed to pick off the assets of two smaller outfits, Optisolar and MMA...
A new map of the Earth’s gravitational force developed at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark will make the search for oil a little cheaper. In an industry that predicts continued cutbacks on costly oil exploration projects, this is good news for companies like Fugro, an integrated geotechnical and geoscience surveyor. The map uses satellite measurements to...
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