The European Parliament has given its official support to the creation of the European Institute of Technology (EIT)

The plans include the development of seven wind farms in Västernorrland and Jämtland in Sweden. Assuming the farms are built, they will be able to produce around 2.8 TWh of renewable energy per year

The Bush administration will use every opportunity to create the illusion of action without agreeing to meaningful, binding pollution reductions

Scientists believe that we need a 60-80 percent reduction in GHG emissions by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, and slowing the pollution growth rate won't enable us to meet this goal.

Many other nations have already agreed to significant GHG reductions, such as the European Union and Japan

Andris Piebalgs admitting that member states are being "cautious" in contributing too much to the target.

EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs has brushed off French and German criticism of Brussels' planned overhaul of the union's energy sector, saying it is fuelled by politically influential energy giants

Virtually all of the country's electricity and heating comes from domestic renewable energy sources -- hydroelectric power and geothermal springs. It's pollution-free and cheap. Yet these energy pioneers are still dependent on imported oil to operate their vehicles and thriving fishing industry.

The Ecowatts Thermal Energy Cell (TEC) is an electrolysis based energy cell that converts electrical power into heat at an efficiency significantly greater than that of a conventional immersion heater. This is achieved without the consumption of additional fossil fuels. The system has been independently, scientifically verified to produce 1.5 to 2 times as much energy out as was put in.

Auction 100 percent of emission allowances. • Use the revenues from auctions to: Support clean energy technological development, including research and development funding and early market support for clean technologies. Invest in energy efficiency improvements to reduce the cost of the program to consumers. Provide direct consumer rebates to alleviate any increases in energy costs that result from the program.

Lehman Brothers has just released a terrific report, "The Business of Climate Change II." The theme is, "Policy is accelerating, with major implications for companies and investors"; but the piece has a lot of breadth, with cogent comments on everything from the social/damage cost of carbon, to auctioning vs. grandfathering, to the Stern Report

Per Western Digital, switching to Green Power is the equivalent of removing your car from the roadways 14 days out of the year and save you up to $10 per drive each year in electricity costs.

nuclear power (which represents around one-third of the EU's electricity production) is seen by the EU executive as "the largest source of largely carbon-free energy in Europe".  But member states are divided on how much nuclear should contribute - if at all - to the EU's future energy mix

The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies seeking to lower power consumption of data centers around the world. Data centers last year used an estimated 61 billion kilowatt-hours, or 1.5% of electricity in the United States. Energy use in data centers is project to grow 12% per year through 2011.

Crutzen and colleagues question whether growing and burning many biofuel crops actually may raise, rather than lower, greenhouse gas emissions.

Toyota is testing a Plug-in HV. According to Autoblog Green1, the second step in development “is a car with an electric-only range of 30-60 KM (60 KM = 37 Miles),” Presumably, this would be with advanced lithium batteries. Meanwhile, initial tests are with the addition of another NiMH battery pack and a plug-in hybrid vehicle capable of just 8 all-electric miles.

EU support for renewable energy currently "suffers from fragmented, uncoordinated national policies", writes Sheldon Welton for the think tank Notre Europe.

Only one-third (26%) of respondents considered clean coal and other fossil fuel technologies to be the best means for reducing CO2 emissions in the EU by 20% by 2020, while two-thirds of respondents favoured energy efficiency improvements in transport and buildings.  

Energy consumption worldwide is likely to double between 2000 and 2050, and nuclear energy will remain a key element in future low-carbon energy systems. Europe has the largest nuclear industry in the world and one third of its electricity comes from nuclear plants.

Wind turbines are one of the most environmentally sound technologies for producing electricity, explain the researchers. However, the removal and recycling phase of wind turbines has been identified as a blind spot in assessing their overall environmental impact. Most studies have ignored this phase and focused entirely on their operation and in some cases the production and installation of wind turbines.

The electricity sector as it currently operates is at the mercy of natural disasters, price fluctuations, terrorist attacks and blackouts. Coupled with other, more long-standing problems such as increasing levels of pollution, growing vulnerability and inefficiency of transmission and distribution networks, and rising electricity prices related to disruptions and interruptions in fuel supply, these challenges add to the need for an evaluation of alternative energy technologies.

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark created a refrigerator that uses magnets to cool instead of electricity by finding a cooling method which uses magnetic materials instead of electricity.