Bush Proposal Calls for Drilling Offshore
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Russian Plan to Save World's Largest Tiger Succeeds
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Amory Lovins Getting More Attention: How the U.S. Can Slash Oil Consumption
by Jeffrey Ball, July 25, 2005 Suddenly, lots more people are paying attention to Amory Lovins. Mr. Lovins, a disheveled 57-year-old intellectual whose rsum includes an Oxford University degree and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, has been tilting at the windmill of U.S. energy policy for more than a generation. He first gained notoriety in 1976, when, in the wake of the Arab oil embargo, he proposed a radical notion: that the smart way to ensure adequate cheap energy for the future was to reduce consumption, rather than increase supply. Since then, Mr. Lovins has built an international reputation as an energy-efficiency guru — and a career as a consultant to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. His base remains the Rocky Mountain Institute in Old Snowmass, Colo., a think tank he founded in 1982 with his former wife, Hunter Lovins. Mr. Lovins’s basic thesis: Energy efficiency is good business because it cuts costs — and that big moves to boost efficiency are better, and ultimately cheaper, than little ones. His latest grand idea: that the U.S. can drastically slash its oil consumption by shifting its auto fleet to vehicles built with carbon composites — materials that are lighter than steel […]
US Energy Bill would Nearly Double Ethanol Output
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Millennium Cell to Receive Funding to Advance Volume Manufacturing of Fuel Cartridges
Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ:MCEL), a leading developer of hydrogen battery technology, announced that its proposal to develop a process that will enable volume manufacturing of fuel cartridges based on its proprietary technology has been selected by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (“NCMS”) for contract award under a cross-industry collaborative partnership between NCMS and the U.S. Department of Energy. This program targets the development of manufacturing technologies for affordable hydrogen-powered energy systems including fuel cell components and hydrogen storage systems. Millennium Cell will lead a team which includes The Dow Chemical Company, EWI and NextEnergy, to develop critical manufacturing technology that will reduce the overall process and product costs of hydrogen storage technology for near-term implementation in portable power applications. NCMS funding towards the 15 month effort should begin in the third quarter. Adam P. Briggs, President of Millennium Cell, commented, “We look forward to working with an outstanding team to develop low cost manufacturing technology as we transition our hydrogen battery fuel cartridges from prototypes to commercially viable products.” The NCMS award will accelerate Millennium Cell’s joint development program with Dow to collaborate on the development and commercialization of portable fuel cell systems. Millennium Cell develops hydrogen battery technology […]
Cypress Sets Up IPO for SunPower Corporation
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Insurers Link Global Warming with Higher Cost of Storms
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Carmakers Set to Miss EU Emissions Goal
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EPA Proposes Emission Trading Option to Improve Air at Parks
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A Bid to Chill Thinking; Behind Joe Barton's Assault on Climate Scientists
by David Ignatius, July 22, 2005 In today’s partisan political climate, science has inevitably become a political football. But I can’t remember anything quite as nasty — or as politically skewed — as Rep. Joe Barton’s recent attack on scientists whose views on global warming he doesn’t like. Barton, an 11-term Republican from Texas, is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and one of the oil lobby’s best friends on Capitol Hill. Late last month he fired off letters to professor Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and two other scientists demanding information about what he claimed were “methodological flaws and data errors” in their studies of global warming. Barton’s letters to the scientists had a peremptory, when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife tone. Mann was told that within less than three weeks, he must list “all financial support you have received related to your research,” provide “the location of all data archives relating to each published study for which you were an author,” “provide all agreements relating to . . . underlying grants or funding,” and deliver similarly detailed information in five other categories. The scientists’ offense was that they had authored a controversial study that reported a sharp rise in […]
