August 20, 2008
Wednesday

Renewable/Alternative Energy : Opinion

Renewable/Alternative Energy is any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, such as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.
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Signposts to a Clean-Energy Future: Two New Reports Shine a Light on Potential High-Growth Pathways for the U.S. (opinion)

Wind power is the largest emerging clean-energy source on the planet. It is starting to reach significant penetration in an increasing number of markets, representing approximately 20 percent of Denmark’s total electricity generation, 10 percent of Spain’s, and more than 7 percent of Germany’s. In the U.S., Iowa and Minnesota now get approximately 5 percent of their electricity from the wind, New Mexico around 4 percent, and Oregon approximately 3.5 percent. Even more remarkable, wind represented 30 percent of new

Organization:
cleanedge.com

Our New Energy Crisis (opinion)

very technological advance of the last 150 years has been powered by a unique, extremely energy-dense, but finite—and, as it turns out, planet-killing—source of fuel. Switching away from fossil energy requires an economic and social transformation at least as great as the Industrial Revolution.
Organization:
Mother Jones

Ethanol Increasing Prices, Emissions (opinion)

Congress already has authorized billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies for farmers who grow corn and the producers who turn it into the fuel that's pumped into your car.

Organization:
The Wichita Eagle
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