Alternative Energy Today

Since June 18th, we have been saying that the development of alternative energy sources and becoming not only energy independent but also becoming an oil exporting nation is a matter of national security.  On that day, we predicted that oil would be at $20 a barrel by 2020.
If there was ever any doubt in your [...]

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While Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to loudly beat the alternative energy drum, which we appreciate and acknowledge, by staunchly opposing nuclear energy and resisting discussions regarding expanded offshore drilling, his judgment is, once again, is proving to be as flawed as it is shallow.  Both nuclear and offshore drilling are essential components in [...]

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Recent reports that Saudi Arabia is actively considering ways to diversify their economy to be less dependent on oil for revenues suggests that the leader of the OPEC cartel have realized that the civilized world has tired of being dependent on these oppressive, uncaring tyrants and basically valueless residents of the planet and have redoubled [...]

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Nissan Motor Company (Nasdaq: NSANY) recently previewed its latest all-electric plug-in car, an electrified version of the “Cube”, a popular model that Nissan sells in Japan, modified to carry three lithium ion batteries under the floor and an 80kW motor and inverter.  The news of this event was carried widely by many news sources but [...]

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While Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and with the tacit approval of Barack Obama, are blocking attempts to bring an energy bill to a vote that would allow US companies to drill on the outer continental shelf, where China and others are already beginning to tap the vast reserves available to us, [...]

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There is a lot of conversation today about grid parity, that point at which the cost of a renewable energy source gains economic equality to the available non-renewable sources.
Naturally, this has a lot to do with location as costs of both renewable and non-renewable and renewable energies vary wildly from place to place. [...]

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While conventional science has believed since the mid 1700’s that oil is the byproduct of dead dinosaurs, ferns and trees being processed underground for millions of years and is therefore being depleted on a daily basis, a contradictory theory by Dr. Thomas Gold, the founder, and for over 20 years, the director of the Cornell [...]

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Today, coal produces more than half the electricity consumed in America. Natural gas, nuclear and conventional hydroelectric make up another 45% meaning that combined, geothermal, wind and solar along with all the other alternative forms of power comprise a mere 5% of the total production into the US power grid.
This statistic points out one simple [...]

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