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The World Bank has called on national governments not to mandate an increase biofuels production until there is greater clarity about how much biofuels are contributing to the global food price crisis. Juergen Voegele, director
Full story...The increasing consumption of food commodities by the alternative energy sector at a time of shortages is causing increasing international disquiet. In the US on Friday, two dozen Republican senators asked the Environmental
Full story...If anyone in Hollywood is looking for a theme for the next version of Mission Impossible, a potential script could go like this: The world must boost electricity production by 500 per cent to sustain economic growth between now
Full story...Lord Lawson, the man who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Energy Minister under Margaret Thatcher, seems to have lost none of his marbles. In his new book “An Appeal To Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming”, he describes
Full story...Nevtah Capital Management is not a name that gives anything away about the operations of the company, but Nevtah in fact qualifies for inclusion simultaneously on two of our sister sites, Minesite.com and Poweralternatives.com.
Full story...As the price of crude oil nears US$120, soaring food prices are provoking a rethink as regards biofuels in the US and Europe. While the amount of fuel produced from crops such as corn and soya is currently only a small part of
Full story...Stephen Coates, chief executive of Homeland Energy has a very interesting rebuttal for those who are of the view that the current power crisis in South Africa is a sign that the whole country is going to hell in a hand-cart. But
Full story...It’s all in the name – Poweralternatives.com. When this website was launched by Commodity Watch some nine months ago, the intention was to focus on forms of energy other than those derived from fossil fuels which consist of oil,
Full story...President George W Bush’s conversion on green issues has so far failed to impress. The day before the third meeting of a US-led major economies grouping in Paris last week Mr Bush announced a new target of halting the growth in
Full story...The vicious upward spiral in alternative energy prices caused by soaring crude oil markets was in evidence again, as crude went above US$112 a barrel on falling US stockpiles and a weaker dollar. And behind the scenes,
Full story...This week the United Nations called for a comprehensive review of biofuels policies as governments and UN food agencies continued to struggle with grain supply crises. Energy feed market volatility reared up again, reflecting new
Full story...Hedge funds are a US-centric industry – that much at least is clear from the ripple effect from the recent strikes by Argentina’s farmers. Almost three weeks of roadblocks caused food shortages and paralyzed grain and other
Full story...World alternative energy markets focused last week on US grain, both in terms of forecasts for 2008 US plantings and in terms of the weather. Get a handle on those two factors and a reasonable assessment of biofuel feedstock
Full story...The biggest commodity collapse in at least fifty years hit agriculture markets following the Fed’s US$29 billion injection to revive confidence in US banks after the collapse of Bear Stearns. Funds that had for months been
Full story...With global equity markets in a state of turmoil it’s perhaps not the best time to be surprising the market on the downside as US thin film solar panel maker Powerfilm found out to its cost recently. On 17th March the company’s
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Zenergy‘s High Temperature Superconductor `HTS‘) Induction Heater Wins Prestigious Hermes Award
March 2008, Half Year Report for the half year ended 31 December 2007
EcoSecurities awarded contract by China Datang Corporation to purchase 6 million
LOEWEN ONDAATJE MCCUTCHEON LIMITED COMPLETES 6 MILLION SHARE SALE OF PACIFIC HYDRO PTY. LIMITED SHAREHOLDINGS OF WESTERN WIND ENERGY
NEGOTIATIONS FOR PROJECT FINANCING, TURBINE DELIVERY AND CONSTRUCTION FUNDING
Commercial Order for Full Scale HTS Induction Heater for Copper Processing
Completion of Field Technical Programme And Progressing Coal-to-Liquids Feasibility Study
