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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Congress passes legislation to boost solar, wind, and geothermal energy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tuesday the U.S. Senate passed a bill that will extend tax credits on solar power installations through 2016.  The House approved the measure Wednesday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google, Australia give big boost to geothermal power production]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Geothermal energy got a big boost this week with Google and the Australian government announcing multi-million initiatives that make use of Earth's heat as a clean and renewable source of power.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gore launches second campaign... for Earth]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a speech Thursday, Al Gore challenged the U.S. to generate 100 percent of its electricity from zero carbon emission sources within 10 years. Speaking at Washington's Constitution Hall, Gore said America's security, environmental and economic crises are all related, and that measures to rein in greenhouse gas emissions will make the U.S. stronger, safer, and cleaner. "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Gore said. "I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Google aims to make renewable energy sources cheaper than coal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tuesday Google announced an initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1128-google.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two renowned energy experts sparred in a debate over nuclear energy Wednesday afternoon at Stanford University. Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, argued that energy efficiency and alternative energy sources will send nuclear power the way of the dinosaurs in the near future. Dr. Burton Richter, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, said that nuclear would play an important part of the future energy portfolio needed to cut carbon emissions to fight global warming.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Geothermal energy could cut U.S. oil demand]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Geothermal energy could eventually power some 25 million homes across the United States at a cost of $40 million per year according to a Department of Energy sponsored study released Monday. Lead by Jefferson Tester, a professor at MIT and lead author, the report argues that unlocking the heat stored in Earth's crust could improve American energy security while reducing emissions greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renewable sources could power 25% of U.S. energy needs by 2025]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Renewable energy sources could supply one quarter of America's electricity and motor vehicle fuel needs by 2025 according to a new study from RAND, a nonprofit research organization.  Currently six percent is energy used in the United Stats comes from renewable sources like solar, biomass, hydroelectric, tidal, wind, and geothermal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1113-rand.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US has low-cost alternatives to oil; peak oil frenzy and human-induced climate change avoidable says Columbia University]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Surging oil prices have fueled calls for the United States to develop new sources of affordable and secure domestic energy.  While renewable energy -- especially biofuels, wind power, and solar technologies -- is an area of particular interest, researchers from the Earth Institute at Columbia University say that the U.S. already has relatively low-cost alternatives to imported oil, including coal, tar sands, and oil shale.  These resources can be extracted and used at a lower cost to the environment than some might expect. In a report published in the most recent issue of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Klaus S. Lackner and Jeffrey D. Sachs argue that "coal alone could satisfy the country's energy needs of the twenty-first century."  They say that "coal liquefaction, or the process of deriving liquid fuels from coal, is already being used in places and with expanded infrastructure could provide gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel at levels well below current prices."  Further, Sachs and Lackner suggest that "environmental constraints such as increased carbon dioxide emissions arising from greater use of coal and other fossil fuels could be avoided for less than 1 percent of gross world product by 2050," a sum far less than others have estimated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High oil prices make Asia pursue green energy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For energy-hungry Asian governments, the answer could literally be blowing in the wind. Across the region, renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal power is gaining ever greater credence as a way to curb the region's appetite for oil and cut runaway import bills.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0909-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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