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Solar power capacity installed around the world this year will beat wind for the first time driven by stronger policy support in key markets, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. via Fuel […]

“Of the $2.6 billion of cleantech venture capital investment in 2012 in California, $1.45 billion included corporate investors,” according to Cleantech Investment: A Decade of California’s Evolving Portfolio, a survey of California […]

Retail electricity customers of Texas power provider Green Mountain Energy can now choose 100 percent solar-generated electricity for a 1 cent per kilowatt-hour premium. Texas has become an intensely competitive market since […]

A new phrase has entered our energy lexicon—peak oil demand. The essential idea: prophets of doom who warned about a looming global petroleum shortfall (“peak oil”) were wrong; instead of a downturn […]

via Bit Tooth Energy http://bittooth.blogspot.com/2013/09/tech-talk-rise-and-fall-and-of-brazil.html

Humans are capable of mass collective blindness to risk. Having courted economic Armageddon in the financial sector, might we repeat the trick in energy? via Renew Economy http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/governments-blind-fossil-fuel-energy-risk-98224?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=governments-blind-fossil-fuel-energy-risk-98224

Some scholars assert that estimates of the long-term cost of a rise in atmospheric temperatures are greatly understated.      via NYT > Environment http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/the-cost-of-climate-change/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Jorgen Randers published a book in 2012 called 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next 40 Years. A note on the front says, “A report to the Club of Rome, Commemorating the […]