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What Does Your Energy Look Like?

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Millions of people in the US regularly respond to surveys asking where their energy comes from by responding “the socket” or “the plug.” The invisibility and omnipresence of electricity is, ironically, one of the challenges for the industry in trying to communicate its fundamental importance.

Making energy creation and consumption visible and relevant to people who are not engineers or experts, but are nonetheless reliant on energy for every aspect of their daily lives, is a challenge a number of firms in the sector have begun to embrace. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM

Anglo American Goes Full Bore Building Essential Materials Availability

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Mining giant Anglo American has traditionally been treated by energy markets largely as a coal producer, and it remains a key provider of the fossil fuel, but the firm’s position as a supplier of materials like copper used in new energy technology and revamped energy infrastructure, is gaining it new attention from the energy business.

Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll and Financial Director Rene Midori discuss Anglo American’s year-end results in this video, and while both linger over high-profile dealmaking in the diamond business in 2011, the importance of new expansions in raw materials mining is repeatedly underlined as the two discuss ways the company has invested throughout a multi-year commodity cycle that has boosted its results. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Advanced Biofuel Industry On The Cusp Of ‘Told You So’

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The cellulosic ethanol and advanced biofuels industry is on the cusp of a major increase in scale that will prove critics of the effort to increase biofuels production in the US wrong, this rousing defense of the industry from the Advanced Biofuels Association claims.

“We know we have a technology,” says BP Biofuels North America President Sue Ellerbusch in this video, claiming the business is “right on the cusp of ‘told you so.’ Keep reading →

 /  Published February 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM

Advanced Biofuels Firms Detail 2012 Priorities

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The federal government is a major player in the renewable energy space through tax credits and other subsidies, but even as those fade it has a vital role to play through the scale of its fuel and energy purchases.

As the advanced biofuels industry prepares for an era of widespread commercialization matched by shrinking subsidies, leading executives from companies like Amyris and Gevo are laying out their priorities and plans for the coming year and beyond. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM

Investor Summit On Climate Risk And Energy Solutions: Highlights

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“Companies that don’t get this really risk becoming irrelevant,” says GE Ecoimagination VP Mark Vachon in this highlight video reel from the Ceres investor summit held at the UN’s headquarters in New York City last week.

The consensus among the speakers featured in the video is that investing with climate change in mind can mean investing in renewable energy projects with “bond-like” stable returns. It also means considering climate change risks like erosion and crop impacts. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 19, 2012 at 6:00 AM

EPA Defends The Mercury Rule

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Amid accusations that its rule requiring coal-fired power plants without existing control equipment for mercury and other specific air toxins could shut down needed energy generation and tax the US economy, the EPA is using high-technology tools like sharable Youtube videos to defend itself.

This short video is unusually clear for a topic that has dragged on through immense complexity over the last twenty years, and spends no time justifying itself on contested science or disputed compliance schedules. The Agency sticks to its contention that current power plant emissions harm child health, and addresses the economic issues by pointing out that if utilities invest in emissions equipment, that technology can be built and installed using American workers and creating business for companies in the US. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Chesapeake Shows Inside Of Its Marcellus Well Pads

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When the US EPA found water contamination from hydraulic fracturing in Pavilion, Wyoming, the natural gas industry cried innocence.

Many pointed out that in the Wyoming case, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) took place in very shallow areas close to fresh water aquifers. In most fracking locations, including the Marcellus shale, natural gas is extracted from shale thousands of feet below the fresh water, with rock separating the two layers. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 22, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Sixty Years Of Nuclear Power

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It’s been sixty years since Argonne National Laboratory director Walter Zinn scribbled into his log book, “Electricity flows from atomic energy. Rough estimate indicates 45 kw.”

At 1:23pm on December 20, 1951 nuclear powered electricity worked for the first time, lighting four light bulbs in the lab. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Pressures Of Growing Population Bring Energy And Food Together

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As the world’s population rises, food and energy resources will both become scarcer commodities.

Some are hoping that the food and energy sectors can work together to maximize the world’s resources through smart grid technology, biomass technology like food waste-to-heat electrical generators, biogas and ethanol, and water efficiency technology that will allow both agriculture and power companies to access much-needed water. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 12, 2011 at 12:30 PM

UN Climate Change Conference Brings EVs To Africa

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The United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa this year will shuttle its delegates to and from the conference in electric vehicles.

“We’re here to demonstrate that zero-emission vehicles are a real and affordable solution for reducing CO2 emissions,” Mia Nelson, of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, says in this video. “These cars are also extremely easy to use and extremely easy to recharge. In fact, with an EV you will never need to go to a gasoline station ever again. You can simply recharge from the comfort of your own home.” Keep reading →

 /  Published November 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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