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KPMG survey finds majority of energy execs see oil over $121/barrel this year; shale expected to have transformative impact, investment in alternatives increasing

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The executives also foresee shale oil and gas having a transformative effect on helping to meet the world’s energy needs, according to the results of the 9 th Annual Energy Survey conducted by the KPMG Global Energy Institute. What is exciting about these findings is that it demonstrates the industry's intent to explore all options.

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Michigan Energy and Advanced Automotive Research Lined Up for $99.5M in Funding from FY2010 Defense Appropriations Bill

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Advanced battery technology offers tremendous potential to significantly improve the near-term operational performance and capability for military vehicles to generate, distribute and store electrical power. This project seeks to develop technologies necessary to lower the cost of roof top solar electric systems to reach grid parity.

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Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

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Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). Tom Kreutz at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University. emissions. their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%)

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Reducing steam generation requirements and optimizing the generation process reduces the GHG overhead associated with the production of heavier oil. Using thermal recovery processes in heavy oil reservoirs depends largely on. incremental oil recovered; heavy oil carries a lower market price than lighter oils.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As oil prices fall, "the push for new energy technologies isbeing shoved aside by the nations other economic woes," Grove said. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Unfortunately, battery production is currently dominated by overseas consumer electronics manufacturers, not U.S. automakers.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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