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- Solar Panels in China: An Emerging U.S.-China Trade Dispute?
- 'Bicycle pump' to turn wave power into clean energy
- El panorama energético actual (Argentina)

In the wake of the Japanese nuclear debacle, we need a practical and affordable clean electricity plan that does not rely on new nuclear power. This article presents just such a Plan. New nuclear is absent from the Plan not because of any safety concern, but simply because it fails the "practical and affordable" test. President Obama called for "80% Clean Energy" by 2035. This Plan presents how we can do it right.

-Does Facebook deserve the hell it’s catching from Greenpeace?
-Saudi Arabia to export solar power soon, US says
-Energy expert Lovins brings conservation message
-The new wave: Harnessing the power of the ocean

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

Book advocates Integral Fast Reactor (IFR)
Schlesinger and Hirsch: Getting real on wind and solar
California takes on King Corn

This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of "Energy Limits to Growth," a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.

Ever since I read the Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan I realised that the next step would be a detailed accounting of energy consumption for a town or region, and an analysis of potential local renewable supplies. The Mayo Energy Audit does all this and more and represents an important next step in the energy descent process for County Mayo in the West of Ireland.

World can halt fossil fuel use by 2090: study
IEA cites gains from energy efficiency
A Solar Gold Rush Is Spreading From California to New Jersey

'Wave snakes' switch on to harness ocean's power
Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
UK's renewable energy efforts 'ineffective'

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective

Australia's first underwater wave farm
Bartlett's renewable energy bill
Germany debates subsidies for solar industry
Market for LEDs for illumination could be big

Biofuels majority of non-OPEC oil growth
New source for biofuels discovered- cyanobacteria
World's largest offshore wind farm in the works
Wave/geothermal - energy return on investment (EROI)

CERA's Yergin says renewables get competitive
Turning glare into watts (solar thermal)

Australia: Coalition goes cool on nuclear
Wind is not the enemy of nuclear
Wave-power proposals alarm locals
From geeks to greens