Clean Energy Digest

This short video gives a very basic look at how solar energy systems work.
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Here are some interesting clean energy news items that I thought you should know about.
V2G Car Generates Electricity And Cash “The price of oil nearly reached $100 a barrel earlier this month, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of the past.”
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The most obvious source of clean energy is in the sky above all of us. And while the power of the sun is obvious, harnessing that power for use as electricity is not so easy. There’s a lot of solar energy research and development taking place these days. So it is possible that we could [...]

Here are some links to clean energy news items that you might find interesting.
Low Ethanol Prices a Boon for Consumers, a Bane for Producers “A glut in ethanol production caused prices for the renewable fuel to drop from August to October, although the prices started to rebound in September. According to VeraSun Energy Corporation, the [...]

The big news today is that more Silicon Valley money is moving into clean energy technology. Google has announced a widespread initiative that, among other things, aims to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.
As a result Google will be investing in wind, solar and plug-in hybrid technology. Here’s a quote from Google’s press release about [...]

This video from Google shows what they are doing with plug-in hybrid technology as part of their recently announced RechargeIT initiative.
 
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Here are some links to clean energy news items that you might find interesting.
Google’s Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal “Google today announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.”
Opinion On Carbon Dioxide Trading In California “On November 9, 2007, the Administrative [...]

The Candidate
Barack Obama is a Democratic candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election. Mr. Obama is a graduate of Harvard Law School, served for eight years in the Illinois State Senate and currently serves as a U.S. Senator from Illinois.
The Position
Senator Obama makes the following proposals via the environment issue page on his campaign website.

Implement A [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today from Robert Hahn titled Ethanol’s Bottom Line.  The editorial references a recently released report from the AEI-Brookings Joint Center that questions the benefits of the government subsidizing ethanol as an alternative fuel source.
Mr. Hahn states in his editorial that, “The results, based on a recent Environmental Protection [...]

Energy harnessed from waves in the ocean could provide a major source of reliable, clean energy in the future. After all, the earth is 75% water. And the waves just keep on coming. This video shows a demonstration of a wave powered electric generator.
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