BioSentral

Ethanol at a turning point - HENNEPIN, Ill. - When Mark Marquis started building his $180 million ethanol plant along the Illinois River, turning corn into fuel seemed like a license to print money. Ethanol... [BostonHerald.com]

I got one...
In prison and you want power? Put the fuckers on excercise bikes and peddle yourself some electricty. Peddle your ass out of jail, now that is what I would consider "carbon credits".

California prison gets solar power plant - BLYTHE, Calif., May 28 (UPI) -- Ironwood State Prison officials in California say they've activated a new 1.18 megawatt solar power plant. [upi.com]

Tennessee removes its capitol from Wal-Mart energy audit - Tennessee has withdrawn from a partnership with Wal-Mart that could have made its state capitol the first to undergo an extensive energy audit by the nation's largest retailer, state and company officials said today. [Tennessean.com]

Airline switching to algae fuel - AMSTELVEEN, Netherlands, May 26 (UPI) -- Amstelveen, Netherlands-based airline KLM has said it will begin testing kerosene fuel made from algae in the fall. [upi.com]

Energy fears looming, survivalists prepare - BUSKIRK, N.Y. A few years ago, Kathleen Breault was just another suburban grandma, driving countless hours every week, stopping for lunch at McDonald's, buying clothes at the mall, watching TV in the evenings.
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U.S. miners prosper as world demand for coal booms - BROOKWOOD, Alabama (Reuters) - Two thousand feet under the west Alabama woods, dust flies as a machine chews into the Blue Creek coal seam, mining black gold for a booming world market that is lifting the once-laggard U.S. coal industry. [Reuters US News]

Energy Dept. says wind power could be savior - Windmills spinning over the Great Plains and along the coasts could supply 20 percent of U.S. electricity by the year 2030 and put a significant dent in greenhouse gas emissions, federal officials said Monday. Although wind farms now generate just 1 percent... [SFGate.com Top News Stories]

U.S. security linked to our ability to withstand shortages - Carl Etnier, Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Domestic security, energy efficiency, renewables, and international security are interrelated. Domestic security is enhanced by designing "resilient communities," communities that continue to function when cut off from external energy sources. [EnergyBulletin.net]

Google to enter clean-energy business - Search giant earmarks hundreds of millions of dollars with the goal of generating a gigawatt of clean energy that's cheaper than coal. Search giant Google on Tuesday pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. [ZDNet.com]

Does NJ have a solar energy future? - When it comes to the environment, New Jersey's image is one of a gloomy, chemical, toxic mess -- a polluted wasteland where it would be easy for Tony Soprano to dispose of a body. [The Boston Globe]