Platina Energy Group, Inc. reports operational cost projections for hydrocarbon extraction in Tennessee and Kentucky far below domestic averages. Despite the recent energy price reductions, the cost of production as a percentage of sales will likely remain low across the Appalachian area fields.
According to Blair Merriam, “Despite economic slow downs, we have drilled additional wells [...]
Despite a swarm of economic problems and rising fossil fuel costs, last year was a banner year for clean energy, according to an outlook report by Clean Edge, a research and publishing firm.
According to Clean Edge’s report, biofuels (global production and wholesale pricing of ethanol and biodiesel) reached $25.4 billion in 2007 and are projected [...]
Energy provider Southern Co. said Monday construction has begun on what it called an efficient, low-emission coal facility which will help the company meet increased power demand.
The facility, at the Stanton Energy Center in Orange County, Fla., will turn coal into synthetic gas for generating electricity, while reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides [...]
Environmental groups warn of new pollution if state permits coal-burning plant in Early County
To make their point, they stood along River Street with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as “acid rain” and “mercury poisoning.”
A few tourists gathered nearby as representatives from three Georgia-based environmental groups called on Gov. Sonny [...]
U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has signed a so- called record of decision that makes way for a $569 million coal-fired power plant to be built near Orlando, Fla., the Department of Energy said Tuesday.
The plant, which will use a unique coal gasification technology to make it cleaner and more efficient than traditional coal plants, [...]
The new Democratic-led U.S. Congress is promoting energy policies that focus more on renewable energy than oil and natural gas drilling, but some officials are still determined to open more federal lands to energy exploration.
Speaking at an energy policy forum Tuesday, pro-drilling lawmakers Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., said they want [...]
Clarion University is demonstrating that the future is now for solar energy with the installment of its first system in a campus building.
Experts from Third Sun Solar and Wind Power in Athens, Ohio, have placed the university’s first solar energy system - an ultra-high efficiency solar photo-voltaic array that will track the sun to electrify [...]
SyncWave Energy Inc. (SEI) announces SyncWave Power Resonator, a radically new approach to capturing the energy in Ocean Waves with frequency-based technology. SyncWave is a free-floating, self-reacting point-absorber system that is expected to dramatically improve the economics of wave energy. The energy and climate change dilemma has highlighted the costs and impacts of conventional non-renewable [...]
Solar energy has emerged as the wave of the present for replacing dwindling fossil fuels as the primary source of the world’s energy needs, writes fund manager and former corporate buyout expert Travis Bradford.
That is happening, Bradford says in his new book, “Solar Revolution,” not so much because solar is the clean, renewable fountain of [...]
Inside two half-million-gallon tanks built in the 1950s, a team of microorganisms is preparing to munch its way into the annals of energy innovation.
Late this month, the microbes will start transforming truckloads of restaurant grease into electricity for a water pollution control plant in Millbrae, Calif. The one-of-a-kind setup relieves the city and area eateries [...]
