Alternative Energy Investment

diesel · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: Alternative Energy Investment

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?

Regards,

Diesel

rffrydr · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

Fuel your car...after you fuel your soul, at SBUX!

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/acs-wcg121008.php

There goes my gratis garden supplies!
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:04 am Post subject:

Lancaster could well be the posterboy's (San Berdo) posterboy for foreclosure induced civic decay. Solar shows the way:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-outthere5-2008dec05,0,4265592.story
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

What if they drove a car powered by the sun around the world?...and nobody cared. Alot has changed since this road-trip began:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081204/AUTO01/812040429/1148/rss25
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

Say what you will our "Oil President" called this on the '00 campaign; infotech, for all their productivity "gains," are not clean:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11412495
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

The infrastructure plan that's already on the table:

http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/11/24/the-electric-car-economy/
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

Grow your own (not bio) diesel:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112581
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

Financing stangling major offshore wind developer--but look to the last line for signs of SWF life:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0b556420-b284-11dd-bbc9-0000779fd18c.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:30 am Post subject:

The current state of investment:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c126166a-af90-11dd-a4bf-000077b07658.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

The "Saudi Arabia of Wind" caught in its own turbulence:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e2d626ee-a6ec-11dd-95be-000077b07658.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject:

Ginormus Rhode Island offshore wind power development solves the "line of sight" issue.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/new-jersey-approves-offshore-wind-farm/?hp
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

Google trumpeting their geothermal for the world project with a 2030 target date. Bless their souls. We desperately need a new focus.

http://google.org/egs/index.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

The green is money:

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999189
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

IBM your next utility:

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999317

And BMW:

http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999209
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diesel · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

http://earth2tech.com/2008/08/27/nanosolar-boosts-funds-to-massive-half-billion-dollars/

Looks like liquidity is still available where its needed.

diesel · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

http://earth2tech.com/2008/08/27/solar-map-over-30-utility-scale-solar-plants-in-the-us/

Map of utility scale solar plants >1MW in development. Congress will need to renew the investment tax credit to keep solar on the fast track.
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