Alternative Energy Headlines

Survey says executives see oil prices falling

Even as oil prices ascended to new highs of more than $124 a barrel this week, many oil and gas industry executives say they expect the price to fall significantly by year's end, a new survey shows.

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Solar Thermal Power in North-Africa: How Much Land to Power the World?

piegel Online published a series of pictures titled "Desertec: Strom aus der Wüste" (translation: Desertech: Electricity from the desert). It includes this image of how much land would be needed to power the world, Europe or Germany with solar-thermal power.

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Energy study, €65m investment next steps in Greenfield's ethanol project

For the Iowa-size area around the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, it's not just the air, but the soil, that stands to benefit from biofuels

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Chernobyl's harvest to clear radiation from 70,000 sq. miles

Scientists estimate that contamination in Belarus, the country hardest hit by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion 22 years ago, is severe enough to prevent the safe cultivation of food for 300 to 600 years.

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Chernobyl's harvest to clear radiation from 70,000 sq. miles

For the Iowa-size area around the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, it's not just the air, but the soil, that stands to benefit from biofuels. by Patti McCracken, Ethanol Producer

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