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IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
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A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along   |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
GE Cleans Up Investors looking for a safe play in "clean tech" should consider this giant conglomerate. |
Fast Company
March 2009
Melanie Warner |
Clean Coal: It's Not a Misnomer, But is it the Answer? Advances in clean coal are promising but the industry and society shouldn't celebrate just yet. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Peter Fairley |
Cleaner Coal's Last Stand China's first coal-gasification power plant starts operating amid high hopes, delays, and cost overruns |
Geotimes
December 2006
Fred Schwab |
Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
Wired
February 2005
Schwartz & Reiss |
Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Samuel K. Moore |
The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes |
Scientific American
May 15, 2006
Gunjan Sinha |
Pumping Coal Coming soon to the U.S.: Cleaner diesel from dirty coal. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
James B. Meigs |
The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis Although coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, they are still bad news for the environment and human health. |
Popular Mechanics
November 14, 2006
Jerry Beilinson |
Carbon Futures It's a bit ironic, but the dirtiest of alternative energy technologies could have the biggest impact. Gasification is the process of taking one fuel -- coal, often -- and turning it into a gas (syngas) that can be burned, plus a bunch of other chemicals. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality For five decades solar technologies have delivered more promises than power. Now, new innovations are exiting the lab and plugging into the grid -- turning sunlight into serious energy. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Peter Fairley |
Syn City Could Zaozhuang's hybrid chemical and power plants help clean up China's energy sector? |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
LeVine & Aston |
Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas With prices low and the promise of vast new supplies, businesses are making the switch from oil-based fuels and coal. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Carbon Capture Starts From Coal-Plant Advances in Lab Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
William Sweet |
Winner: Restoring Coal's Sheen A Swedish energy company is the first to initiate and complete a project of significant scale to demonstrate carbon capture and storage with a coal plant. |
Geotimes
August 2005
David Pimentel |
Weighing in on Renewable Energy Efficiency With our supply of fossil fuels running out, the author tells us about alternative energy sources: biomass, biodiesel, hydroelectric, wind, hydrogen and photovoltaics. He ends with comments on the European lifestyle. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Samuel K. Moore |
CO 2 vs. H 2O in Power Production Plotting trade-offs from wind to coal |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2011
Marc Gunther |
GE's Big Bet on Natural Gas The company cites a push toward natural gas and says its new plant leads the way in efficiency. |
Industrial Physicist
Oct/Nov 2004
Jesse H. Ausubel |
Big Green Energy Machines Zero-emission power plants and Continental SuperGrids can multiply the power of the energy system 5-10 times while shrinking it in a revolutionary way. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Peter Fairley |
Quicker Coal Power Greater agility in output may keep Old King Coal in place in a nonnuclear Germany |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Aimee Duffy |
U.S. Natural Gas Kills Coal An abundance of natural gas changes the game for coal players. |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes. |
Scientific American
May 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here Realizing crucial energy technologies will take more than just research and development. The overarching challenge is to make the transition at minimum cost and without economic disruption. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
John S. McClenahen |
Energy: Supply-Side Manufacturers Benefit An upsurge in power plant construction will benefit such firms as General Electric Co. and ABB Ltd., the North American unit of Zurich-based ABB Group., which make such gear as turbines, generators, transformers and controls. |
American Journal of Nursing
February 2008
O'Connor & Roy |
Electric Power Plant Emissions and Public Health Potentially harmful pollutants to be aware of and how they may affect the public's health. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2008
Melinda Wenner |
U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Peter Fairley |
Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected |
Food Processing
April 2012
Dave Fusaro |
PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
A Healthier Glow for Nuclear Power? Could nuclear power once again be the answer to our energy needs? |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005
Bruce Vernyi |
King Coal Makes A Comeback New technology and capacity pressures have producers and regulators considering coal as fuel. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Jeff Schlegel |
The Next Biggest Thing The next gold rush might already be here -- green technologies, a vast sector running the gamut from renewable energy sources to clean technologies that enables businesses to boost performance while minimizing their environmental impact. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
The Next Atomic Age America's nuclear power plants will soon have to be replaced -- but with what? |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Spencer Reiss |
Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly Industrial-Scale Form of Energy Embracing the atom is key to winning the war on warming. |
CFO
July 1, 2006
John Goff |
Power Source How a fresh crop of CFOs is propelling the alternative-fuels industry. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Michael Arndt |
The New Clean Fuel: Coal Producer Goes Green American Electric Power, once the nemesis of environmentalists, will embrace an eco-friendly way of producing electricity from coal. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Moore & Aurilio |
The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems. |
Popular Mechanics
July 21, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Clean Coal: How to Make Rock into Biofuel Despite a Senate battle leaving out important funding for liquid coal research in the new energy bill, gasification remains an important engineering process to our green future. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
William Sweet |
Corn-o-Copia In today's hothouse political climate, some weird ethanol projects have taken root along with essentially sound ones. |
Geotimes
February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York... |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2007
John Carey |
Solar's Day In The Sun John O'Donnell 's big hurdle has been finding a technology that can match the low cost of fossil fuel. He thinks he has that licked. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Salon.com
December 10, 2001
Damien Cave |
Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power? |
Chemistry World
October 2007
Stuart Haszeldine |
How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erik Sofge |
6 Bright Ideas for the Future of Energy While wind turbines and solar panels are impressive green technologies, the way to really slash one's bills and environmental impact is to live in a hyperefficient house |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Powerful Opportunities As global manufacturing faces conflicting energy challenges new answers are being found. The winning opportunities are in power management, renewable resources and distributed power generation. |
