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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:48 pm    Post subject: Alternative Energy Investment Reply with quote

Looking into allocating some capital into the alternative energy area as I see it as a good long term play based on the following:

1. Geopolitics
2. Continued secular rise in oil due to depletion etc.
3. Global Warming mitigation.
4. Increase in enviromentalism going forward.

I am thinking of taking positions in the Powershares Alternative Energy ETFs PZD & PBW as previous attempts to buy into certain stocks in this area have proven a liability. Has anyone else looked into this area and have any thoughts, recommendations?

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Diesel
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of the best performing groups in this ungluing today:

http://online.wsj.com/public/npage/industry_focus.html?rnd=7055&bcind_ind=7537

Geothermal leads the list.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The UK builds its first geothermal plant:

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/eden-projects-geothermal-plant-could-power-10-british-homes

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The proposed geothermal plant--Britain's first--will release heat buried three miles below the surface of Cornwall to drive electricity-producing turbines above ground. If successful, the plant will produce up to 3 megawatts of power, or enough to power almost 5,000 homes. Eden believes that the large reserves of geothermal energy buried below Cornwall could eventually provide enough power for 10% of the U.K. Initially, though, the plant will be used to power the Eden Project, a green theme park that contains the world's largest greenhouse. EGS and Eden plan to have the plant up and running by 2012.
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For chips it's a new power grab:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/intel-pushes-thin-low-voltage-but-cheap-laptops?siteid=rss&rss=1
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Italian solar boom turning, like all good booms, into a property boom:

http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2009/05/italys-solar-energy-rush-risks.html
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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BP winding down solar investment:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/70c3b580-4020-11de-9ced-00144feabdc0.html
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Taxing our way to a cleaner future:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f00c2b0c-342b-11de-9eea-00144feabdc0.html

Of course what the autos need is stable fuel prices....high is easier to control than low.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Industry gets together to create a standard (plug) for plug-in vehicles:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14886
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heaven sent:

http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?N=av&T=Vatican%20Plans%20to%20Tap%20Heavenly%20Rays%20With%20New%20Solar%20Plant&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vFya.ddVBkKQ.asf
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a good hard look: yes, this IS progress.

http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/rL6doSkhXBo/
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remember Nitrous out on the track?--it's been reinvented into a new molecule:

http://www.shell.us/home/content/usa/aboutshell/media_center/news_and_press_releases/2009/nitrogen_030209.html
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It can come in the most prosaic of forms: self-healing automotive paint.


http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/68hkA3FjNpY/
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More alternative energy details within the Obama Stimulus:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6251158.html
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bouts of excess: unintended consequences of Wind Power.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahh7SP22WJdM

Storms flowing across small grids will smack prices down--this welcomed "divine wind" will also scramble banks' amortization schedules on the main utilities--something unthinkable in an "inflationary" world.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"California Scheming"

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/10cd767c-e272-11dd-b1dd-0000779fd2ac.html
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Start by investing in yourself:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/opYUFDeUztI/
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