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IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along   |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Jeff Schlegel |
The Next Biggest Thing The next gold rush might already be here -- green technologies, a vast sector running the gamut from renewable energy sources to clean technologies that enables businesses to boost performance while minimizing their environmental impact. |
BusinessWeek
August 14, 2006
Thornton & Aston |
Wall Street's New Love Affair Why some of the world's smartest investors are betting billions on clean energy. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Why Texans See Green Gold in Renewable Resources As America's petroleum heartland, Texas isn't known for being environmentally sensitive. But its oil-boom, energy savvy attitude could put the state in a surprising position -- leading the charge to alternative energy in the U.S. |
Geotimes
February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York... |
BusinessWeek
November 13, 2006
Adrienne Carter |
Harvesting Green Power Farmers are sowing the seeds of an alternative energy future. But how much of the country can we fuel on corn? |
Geotimes
August 2005
David Pimentel |
Weighing in on Renewable Energy Efficiency With our supply of fossil fuels running out, the author tells us about alternative energy sources: biomass, biodiesel, hydroelectric, wind, hydrogen and photovoltaics. He ends with comments on the European lifestyle. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
Peter Fairley |
The Greening of GE Alternative energy, once the province of do-it-yourselfers and scrappy technology developers, is suddenly Big Business. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Powerful Opportunities As global manufacturing faces conflicting energy challenges new answers are being found. The winning opportunities are in power management, renewable resources and distributed power generation. |
Food Processing
January 2008
Marty Weil |
Consider Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources Solar and wind power, biogas and biodiesel may solve your manufacturing company's energy problems as well as its green initiatives. |
BusinessWeek
October 15, 2007
John Carey |
Solar's Day In The Sun John O'Donnell 's big hurdle has been finding a technology that can match the low cost of fossil fuel. He thinks he has that licked. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Wired
October 2006 |
My Big Biofuels Bet It may surprise you to learn that the most promising solution to our nation's energy crisis begins in the bowels of a waste trough, under the slotted concrete floor of a giant pen that holds 28,000 beef cattle. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Energize Your Portfolio Oil hovers near $50 a barrel. Fossil fuels are becoming scarcer. Do you wonder where fuel will come from in 20 years, or even in 10 years? Ponder the investment possibilities in renewable energy sources. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
LeVine & Aston |
Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas With prices low and the promise of vast new supplies, businesses are making the switch from oil-based fuels and coal. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010
Julie Bennett |
Are We Headed Toward a Green Bubble? Billions of dollars are pouring into clean-tech companies - with little results. Is this an intelligent investment or the beginning of another bubble? |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Brad Reagan |
America @ $100/Barrel: How Long Will the Oil Last? Major discoveries of oil within our own borders could help reduce foreign imports. |
Food Processing
January 2007
Mike Pehanich |
Flower Power, Sunshine and Wind First solar energy, then biodiesel fuel and now wind power. Kettle Foods Inc., Salem, Ore., has made alternative energy sources a company commitment. |
Wired
April 2003
Schwartz & Randall |
How Hydrogen Can Save America The cost of oil dependence has never been so clear. Consumers are ready for an alternative. From Detroit to Dallas, even the oil establishment is primed for change. We put a man on the moon in a decade; we can achieve energy independence just as fast. Here's how. |
CFO
April 1, 2009
Kate O'Sullivan |
Spring Forward The recession is withering the alternative-energy business. Can the federal government's stimulus package revive it? |
Mother Jones
Mar/Apr 2000
Arthur Allen |
Prodigal Sun Solar energy was a rising star in the '70s -- until it was banished by the powers that be. Are we ready for its return? |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Jill Jusko |
Power Hungry No doubt about it, manufacturing is a powerfully hungry energy consumer. But the energy landscape is changing, and manufacturers must be ready to adapt to an uncertain future. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Wired
February 2005
Schwartz & Reiss |
Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Robert F. Keane |
Energy Is in the Air In spite of Washington's inaction, wind farms could go a long way toward reducing carbon emissions |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Eric Jaffe |
The World After Oil As the planet warms up, eco-friendly fuels can't get here fast enough. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Mike Allen |
How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels. |
Food Engineering
November 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Nader Elhefnawy |
Toward a Long-Range Energy Security Policy An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Sandra Upson |
A Less Well-Oiled War Machine The high cost of petroleum is forcing the U.S. military to turn to solar, geothermal, and wind energy. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Ilana Polyak |
Alternative Energy Can green intentions translate into green? As more investors get hip to alternative energy, financial advisors need to learn about the sector's potentials and pitfalls. |
Wired
May 2002
Alex Markels |
Sea Change The next wave of renewable power is bigger, cheaper, and multi-megawatts stronger than ever before. And it's about to go online in the North Sea... |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
Outside
November 2006
Carleen Hawn |
Put Your Money Where the Green Is An introduction to a guru of green investing. Because in a world of high gas prices and climate change, cashing in on clean technology and eco-friendly businesses is good for the planet and even better for your financial portfolio. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
William Sweet |
Corn-o-Copia In today's hothouse political climate, some weird ethanol projects have taken root along with essentially sound ones. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Are Green Jobs For Real?: Special Report The first step in cutting through the hype surrounding green jobs is simply to define them. |
Outside
February 2007
Florence Williams |
A Mighty Wind With a muscular combination of new technologies, capitalist smarts, and old-school stewardship, the tiny Danish island of Samso has become the greenest, cleanest, most energy-independent place on earth. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
John Carey et al. |
Alternate Power: A Change Is In The Wind The "alternative power" industry is gaining critical mass, but its economic future is still up in the air -- with daunting risks as well as opportunities. |
Inc.
November 2006 |
The Futurists From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy. |
Science News
February 11, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Wind Makes Food Retailers Greener The Environmental Protection Agency recognizes the top 25 institutions committed to making significant investments this year in ecologically responsible, "green" power systems, especially wind farms. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality For five decades solar technologies have delivered more promises than power. Now, new innovations are exiting the lab and plugging into the grid -- turning sunlight into serious energy. |
Fast Company
December 2004
Scott Kirsner |
Green Power Thanks to soaring fuel prices, lots of creative energy is being applied to alternative energy. The time may finally have come for these three champions of on-the-verge technologies. |
BusinessWeek
October 26, 2009
John Carey |
Wiring America Up to Green Power Should the U.S. subsidize vast high-voltage lines to transport wind and solar electricity to the big cities? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2009
John Teresko |
The Future Is Bright For Solar Energy Photovoltaics and other alternative energy solutions offer economic and environmental advantages to manufacturers. |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Taps Oceans for Power As the Navy dives headlong into the challenge of meeting its alternative energy goals within the next decade, technologists are striving to help the service harness solar power trapped in ocean waters to generate electricity for its shore-side bases |
