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Peak Oil News Thursday April 17th 2008



Inexpensive residential wind power - peak oilInexpensive residential wind power - peak oil
(North Denver News: Wed, 16 Apr) Don’t look now but it appears residential renewable energy systems and wind power technology are getting cheaper. California based Freetricity’s E2D Windmaster is a roof-mounted small residential wind turbine that comes with an affordable price tag. Though it sports a small propeller that could prove hazardous to hummingbirds and the like (though its size and roof mounting will reduce bird and ...


Renewable Energy facts - peak oilRenewable Energy facts - peak oil
(North Denver News: Tue, 15 Apr) Renewable Energy facts - 2007 year data • Renewable electricity generation capacity reached an estimated 240 gigawatts (GW) worldwide in 2007, an increase of 50 percent over 2004. • Renewables represent 5 percent of global power capacity and 3.4 percent of global power generation. Renewable energy generated as much electric power worldwide in 2006 as one-quarter of the world’s nuclear power ...


Joseph Romm: McCain reveals hypocrisy, cynicism with call for gas-tax holiday, energy budget freezeJoseph Romm: McCain reveals hypocrisy, cynicism with call for gas-tax holiday, energy budget freeze
(HuffingtonPost: Tue, 15 Apr) Any remaining glimmer of hope that Senator John McCain might be the principled, non-cynical politician to transform our energy policy and avoid the dual calamaties...



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Brazil Finds World's Third Largest Oil FieldBrazil Finds World's Third Largest Oil Field
(The Auto Channel: Tue, 15 Apr) Writing for AP last night, Alan Clendenning has reported that Brazil has found a new deep-water oil field that might yield as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that according to one energy analyst, "would nearly triple Brazil's reserves and make the offshore bloc the world's third-largest known oil reserve."


Seeking an Angel in Dubai and BeyondSeeking an Angel in Dubai and Beyond
(Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News: Tue, 15 Apr) ATTENTION EDITOR,GENERAL DESK NEW YORK, April 15 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Mark Nejmeh, President, MagKinetics Inc. will travel to Dubai to seek an Angel for his development stage renewable energy company with their patent pending technology for "A system and method for creating electricity from moving vehicular traffic." MagKinetics has been patiently and thoroughly seeking a financially ...


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