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Policy, Experience, and Plans

• Jordan’s $1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park to be Powered by Alternative Energy
  (Inhabitat, 13 Aug 2011)
• Texas grid declares Level 1 Emergency as ten thousand megawatts of wind power stands paralyzed
  (Blogspot, 4 Aug 2011)
• Why America's power grid is weathering the heat wave (Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jul 2011)
• Deaths per TWH by energy source (Next Big Future, 13 Mar 2011)

Oil

• China set for imminent shale rush (MSNBC, 24 Apr 2011)
• Leaked German report argues peak oil is happening now (BusinessGreen.com, 7 Sep 2010)
• The world's first really green oil deal (The Independent, 8 Aug 2010)
• The Logic of Abundance (Intel Daily, 26 Mar 2010)
• Oil reserves 'exaggerated by one third' (Telegraph.co.uk, 22 Mar 2010)
• A Close Look At OPEC Strategy Reveals That They're 100% Short-Term Focused,
  And Sure Of Peak Oil (Business Insider, 27 Feb 2010)

Wind

• Texas grid declares Level 1 Emergency as ten thousand megawatts of wind power stands paralyzed
  (Blogspot, 4 Aug 2011)
• Scots windfarms paid cash to stop producing energy (BBC, 1 May 2011)
• Wind farm efficiency queried by John Muir Trust study (BBC, 6 Apr 2011)
• Windstalks harvest wind energy in a field (Climate Progress, 19 Aug 2010)
• Engineers race to design world's biggest offshore wind turbines (The Guardian, 26 Jul 2010)
• Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine (Ottawa Citizen, 8 Jul 2010)
• Report says China is Squeezing U.S. firms out of its massive wind-power market
  (Dallas News, 18 Mar 2010)
• America's Wind Energy Triples in New Estimate (WiReD, 19 Feb 2010)
• Global Wind Installations Boom, Up 31% in 2009 (Renewable Energy World, 4 Feb 2010)
• Wind Farms Impacting Weather—Environmental Engineers Detect Turbines' Turbulence Effects
  (Science Daily, 1 Oct 2005)

Solar

• Japan ‘plans solar panels for all new buildings’ (Physorg, 22 May 2011
• Solar Power Breakthrough Could Render Photovoltaic Cells Obsolete (Inhabitat, 14 Apr 2011)
• Utility-Scale Solar on BLM Desert Lands Will Generate Substantial Income for Taxpayers
  (Clean Tecnica, 8 Jul 2010)
• Italy Beats USA With 3 Times as Much Solar Installed Using Feed-in Tariffs (Clean Technica, 6 Jul 2010)
• New Solar Cell is 98% Plastic and Catches a Record-Breaking 96% of Incident Light
  (Treehugger, 23 Feb 2010)
• Record High Performance With New Solar Cells (Science Daily, 9 Nov 2008)

Ocean

• Tidal Energy Turbines to Dot Coast of Wales (EarthTechling, 2 Apr 2011)
• Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (PUC) rejects Deepwater contract on price
  (Providence Business News, 30 Mar 2010)
• Rival designs race to harness ocean energy (New Scientist, 10 Jul 2009)
• Sea 'snake' generates electricity with every wave (New Scientist, 7 May 2009)
• Plumbing the oceans could bring limitless clean energy (New Scientist, 19 Nov 2008)

Nuclear

• Nuclear waste piles up, and it's costing taxpayers billions
  (The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar 2010)
• Bill Gates and Toshiba discuss nuclear power venture (BBC News, 23 Mar 2010)
• Germany to be nuclear-power-free by 2030 (TheLocal.de, 20 Feb 2010)
• Do we need to go nuclear to stay green? (New Scientist, 21 Oct 2008)
• Nuclear bomb (Nuclear Energy) (Salon, 02-Jun-2008)
• Nuclear needs ‘huge expansion’ (BBC, 16 Oct 2006)

Biofuel

• Cellulosic ethanol slashes emissions (Stock & Land, 22 Jun 2010)
• Japanese machine recycles used adult diapers into poo pellets (CNN, 4 May 2010)
• Biofuels Boom Could Fuel Rainforest Destruction, Researcher Warns (Science Daily, 24 Feb 2009)
• Invention: Biofuel from the oceans (New Scientist, 21 Jan 2009)
• Fuel From Bacteria Is One Step Closer (Science Daily, 8 Aug 2008)
• Global Limits of Biomass Energy (Carnegie Institution for Science, 3 Jun 2008)
• U.N.’s Pachauri urges caution in biofuel use (Reuters, 26 Mar 2008)
• A biofuel food-price bombshell (Salon, 04 Jul 2008)
• Biofuels ‘crime against humanity’ (BBC News, 27 Oct 2007)

Other Fuel Stories

• Harnessing Sunlight to Convert Carbon Dioxide to Liquid Fuel (Physorg.com, 21 Apr 2010)
• Bill would define tire burning as renewable energy (Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar 2010)
• Renewable energy technology threatened by rare earth metal shortage
  (Power-Gen Worldwide, 17 Mar 2010)
• MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity (Eurekalert!, 7 Mar 2010)
• Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles' (CNN, 12 Feb 2010)
• Soros to Invest $1 Billion in Clean Energy, Form Advisory Group (Bloomberg, 12 Oct 2009)
• Chicken feathers could make cheap hydrogen store (New Scientist, 27 Jun 2009)
• Virtual power plants could tame coming grid chaos (New Scientist, 11 Jun 2009)
• Cheap And Efficient White Light LEDs With New Design (Science Daily, 9 Apr 2009)
• Environmentally-friendly Energy: Sunlight Turns Carbon Dioxide To Methane
  (Science Daily, 8 Mar 2009)
• Why sustainable power is unsustainable (New Scientist, 6 Feb 2009)
• Wind, Water, and Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear and Coal for Clean Energy (Science Daily, 11 Dec 2008)
• ‘Fish Technology’ Draws Renewable Energy From Slow Water Currents (Science Daily, 24 Nov 2008)
• New Gene That Helps Plants Beat The Heat (Science Daily, 14 Oct 2008)
• Renewable energy: electric dreams (New Scientist, 8 Oct 2008)
• Why we never need to build another polluting power plant (Salon, 28 Jul 2008)
• Windmill With a Twist Can Provide Fresh Water from Seawater Directly
  (Science Daily, 5 Mar 2008)

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