Category: Renewable Energy
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Thursday, June 11, 2009
Alternative Energy Bull Market Coming / Commodities / Renewable Energy
Last week, The Energy Report brought you Casey Research Investment Analyst Marin Katusa's outlook for uranium and nuclear energy. In today's edition, Casey Research colleague Dr. Marc Bustin joins Marin to talk about major forces driving prospects for other segments within the energy sector—solar, hydro and geothermal, as well as coal, oil and natural gas.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Is the Dark Cloud Over Solar Energy Investing Beginning to Break? / Commodities / Renewable Energy
By Jason Simpkins writes: By sucking the air out of energy prices and sapping private investment, the financial crisis submarined solar energy last fall. But a silver lining has emerged around the dark cloud that has blanketed the sector for so long.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Profit From Obama's Next Campaign- Energy / Companies / Renewable Energy
President Obama promised change. Now he's delivering it.
Some of us are getting the change we want to believe in. Others are getting change we don't want to believe at all.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Green Energy Policies Would Cripple the Economy / Economics / Renewable Energy
Will a green energy industry be an engine of economic growth? Many want us to think so, including our new President. Apparently a booming green economy with millions of new jobs is just around the corner. All we need is the right mix of government “incentives.”Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Fuel Cell Cars Provide New Uses for Rhodium, Platinum / Commodities / Renewable Energy
The recent price lows of Rhodium ($1200 an ounce) suggest that investors are worried about its future needs in car manufacturing. Rhodium, a noble metal, is primarily used in catalytic converters for combustion engine vehicles. Because of the recent down-turn in the auto industry, investors have stayed away from the metal over concerns of reduced usage in manufacturing. The price of platinum has been affected for similar reasons.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Obama's New “Economic Fuel”… and 7 Ways to Profit / Companies / Renewable Energy
David Fessler writes: Our next President will be faced with unprecedented challenges in health care, energy, global warming, an aging infrastructure and huge “legacy” automobile businesses that are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.He's also being presented with an incredible opportunity… one that, if implemented correctly, could have profoundly positive effects on the economic health of the world, just when we need it.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Investing in Solar Power Energy Technology / Companies / Renewable Energy
Sean Brodrick writes: As an energy crisis threatens to derail the U.S. economy, it really bugs me that there is a 170-billion-megawatt fusion reactor we are not taking advantage of.
I'm talking about the sun, which, when you get down to it, is a big ol' fusion reactor — nuclear energy on steroids. Enough sunlight falls on the Earth's surface every hour to meet world energy demand for an entire year .
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Profiting from Alternative Energies That Work / Commodities / Renewable Energy
Sean Brodrick writes: Many Americans are disgusted by the fact that, faced with an energy crisis, the government seems to produce nothing but hot air. I think the government is paralyzed because there's no one clear solution.
Instead, there are a multitude of options — more drilling, nuclear power, hydrogen cars, solar power ... you name it. Every alternative has a lobby in Washington to press its case, but there's no one to tell our elected officials which is the best route to take.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Algae a Greener Biofuel Than Ethanol? / Companies / Renewable Energy
In my May article, Food Shock , I mentioned that biofuel production was consuming many of the crops normally used for food. Riots have broken out over the sharp price rises of 37% last year, and 16% so far in 2008. Coffee, soybeans and wheat are increasingly diverted to biodiesel production, driving prices higher. Almost a quarter of America's corn crop was distilled into ethanol last year, and the percentage is expected to grow another 10% in 2008.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Alternative Energy ETFs / Commodities / Renewable Energy
As you consider alternative energy (solar and wind, in particular) keep their relative size in mind. Solar is currently 1% of 7% of US energy sources. Wind is currently 5% of 7% of energy sources.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Germany Wind Power Investing, Tiliting At Windmills / Stock-Markets / Renewable Energy
Last week I was aboard the MS Deutschland cruising the Baltic Sea in northern Europe for the KCI Investment Cruise. Leaving from the German port of Travemunde, we stopped at a total of seven countries in 11 days. In several of these countries, we had the opportunity to meet with the commercial attaches at the US Embassy as well as local business leaders.Read full article... Read full article...