Big Oil Bets on Sea

Chevron
Chevron is leasing the Clear Leader, which floats in 4,300 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico, to drill for oil through nearly five miles of rock.

Big Oil never wanted to be here, in 4,300 feet of water far out in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling through nearly five [...]

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Over 1000 Climate Change Protesters Arrested at Summit
By Colin Freeman
Published: 10:49PM GMT 12 Dec 2009

Demonstrators sit on the ground as police surround them at a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference. Photo: REUTERS

Cobble stones were thrown through the windows of the former stock exchange building and foreign office buildings in the [...]

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Electric Car Maker Tesla Preparing IPO
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. electric sports car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.
An IPO filing from the six-year-old start-up, best known for its $109,000 all-electric Roadster, is expected any day, said [...]

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New Battery Could Change World
In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.
The prize is the culmination of 10 years [...]

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Let’s Get Real About Alternative Energy
(CNN) — We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy.
We need to understand how much energy our chosen lifestyles consume, we need to decide where we want that energy to come from, and we need to get on with building energy systems of sufficient size to match [...]

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IBEW Sees Future in Alternative Energy Jobs
MINNEAPOLIS - Darryl Thayer, a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 in Minneapolis, hardly received a visionary’s welcome when he addressed the Minnesota legislature in 1968 about the need to develop solar energy and wean the state from fossil fuel-based sources. Worse yet, says Thayer, many of his [...]

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New Polar Research Station is Powered by Wind Turbines and Solar Panels

PRINCESS ELISABETH BASE, Antarctica - The world’s first zero-emission polar research station opened in Antarctica and was welcomed by scientists as proof that alternative energy is viable even in the coldest regions.
Pioneers of Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth station in East Antarctica said if a station [...]

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