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Refining
Oil Refinery - Wikipedia
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Solar
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Space-based Solar Power (pdf)
Solar thermal energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wind
EERE: Wind Powering America Program
Wind Turbines - A Social Network for Wind Powering America Supporting Partners
NREL: Wind Research
DOE Announces Effort to Advance U.S. Wind Power Manufacturing Capacity
EERE: Wind
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EERE: 20% Wind Energy by 2030
NREL: Annual Report On U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends (2007)
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Geothermal
NREL: Geothermal
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Hydro
EERE: Hydropower
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Biofuels
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Hydrogen
NREL: Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
NREL: Using Wind to Generate Hydrogen (pdf)
Fusion
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL): National Ignition Facility
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Ocean
Ocean Energy
EERE: Ocean Wave Power
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CO2 as fuel
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL): Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
LANL: Green Freedom Overview (pdf)
Nuclear
INL: Nuclear Energy
NRC: Fact Sheet on Power Uprates for Nuclear Plants
EIA: Energy Basics - Nuclear 101
EIA: Nuclear
Conservation/Efficiency
DSIRE: Incentives by State: Federal Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Federal incentives
Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency : ENERGY STAR
Summary of the Credit for Qualified Hybrid Vehicles
Energy efficiency for secondary students
Coal
LLNL: Underground Coal Gasification
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Thermal depolymerization
DOE - Fossil Energy: DOE's Coal Gasification R&D Program
Fossil Energy: How Gasification Power Plants Work
Miscellaneous
EIA: History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000
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Oil price chronology - Wikipedia
Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources (pdf)
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News by Subject
Oil & Gas Leasing
Obama's Dry Hole
Facts About Non-producing Leases
W.Va. congressman pushing oil companies to start drilling unused land - Charleston Daily Mail
68 Million acres already under lease are not being drilled - Senator Harry Reid, Majority Leader
68 million acres isn't going untouched - PolitiFact
Oil/Gasoline Prices
Oil price surge sends gasoline higher
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Naimi Says Oil to Reach $75 a Barrel
$60 - oil's sweet spot
OPEC wants oil to reach $70 a barrel
OPEC sees 'devastating contraction' in oil demand
Where is oil going next?
That cheap gasoline? Don’t get used to it
Low Oil Price Calls For Fresh Set of Rules
Gas Prices Shouldn't Set Our Energy Policy
Oil Falls to Lowest in Almost 4 Years - Bloomberg
Oil's Slide Deepens with Sharp Drop in Demand - Wall Street Journal
The great oil bubble has burst - Telegraph
Oil: Are We In A Bubble?
This Time, It's Different - washingtonpost.com
Who's to Blame for $4 Gas? Both Democrats and GOP - RealClearPolitics
Drilling Will Bring Down Oil Now - Investor's Business Daily
Lowering Gas Prices By Increasing Supply - John Boehner (R-OH)
Bye, Bubble? The Price of Oil May Be Peaking - Barrons.com
Understanding Crude Oil Prices (pdf)
Weak Dollar and US Petroleum Reserves Behind Strong Oil Price
Inflation adjusted Oil Price Chart
Oil price chronology - Wikipedia
Domestic Oil/Gas Production
North Dakota could have a huge new oil field
Natural Gas Politics
The Bias Against Oil and Gas
U.S. Gas Fields Go From Bust to Boom
Flame Off!: Turning Natural Gas Pollution into Gasoline
Sensible Drilling: Gone With the Wind?
‘Rules of the road’ set for oil shale drilling
Let the Drilling Begin - The American
Drill, Maybe Drill - Washington Post
Why Not Drill for Oil? - Seattle Times
Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote - TheHill.com
'Snake Oil' - washingtonpost.com
OCS Moratoria Fact Sheet
Democrats Surrender on Drilling - St. Petersburg Times
BusinessWeek Debate Room Eco-Restrictions Cap Oil Production
The Democrats' Sham Energy Bill - American Spectator
Democrats Still Aren't Serious About Drilling - Rep. John Shadegg
Flower Power - The American Spectator
Drill Already - National Review
The Drilling Bill That Bans Drilling - Boston Globe
The truth about drilling - USA Today
Drill, Drill, Drill Is Working - RealClearPolitics
All Pro-Drilling Now? - New York Post
How Democrats Got Bulldozed on Energy - The New Republic
Drilling Boom Revives Hopes for Natural Gas - NYTimes.com
The Elephant in the Room: Democrats impede U.S. on energy
Coastal oil drilling - San Diego Union-Tribune
Pelosi's oil slick: The Swamp
Dems Stop Approps Bills To Block Energy Push - RealClearPolitics
Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill - RealClearPolitics
Will To Drill Is Strong, Poll Finds; Climate Change Pales As Concern - IBDeditorials.com
Start Drilling Now - Bloomberg
Media Try to Cool Down Oil Drilling Fever
The Truth About ANWR
Rush to exploit new offshore oil hampered by shortage of drilling ships
Democrats Go Against Public Opinion By Blocking Offshore Drilling Proposals - DigitalJournal.com
Faster, Washington! Drill, drill! - The Denver Post
Drill for more oil - Chicago Tribune
Where to Drill First - Power Line
What Dems Can't Say About Drilling - Denver Post
Offshore Drilling is a Distraction - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Times
Democrats Should Let Us Drill - Sen. Mitch McConnell, WSJ
Dems' Doublethink on Drilling - National Review
Pelosi: Bush Drilling Proposal a Hoax Unworthy of Serious Debate on Gas Prices
Open ANWR Already!: The case for drilling—and more energy production - Reason Magazine
Drill now! Congress blocks the bit - Union Leader
Rep. Michelle Bachmann Is Bullish On ANWR Oil Drilling - DigitalJournal.com
Offshore Oil Production Estimate Illustrates Flaws in Forecasting - Institute for Energy Research
What Dems Can't Say About Drilling - RealClearPolitics
Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq - Politico
Over to You, Speaker Pelosi
Washington Times - LAMBRO: Energy a Democratic minus?
For Pelosi, a Fight Against Offshore Drilling - NYTimes.com
The distraction of offshore drilling - Los Angeles Times
Democrats Should Let Us Drill - WSJ.com
The Drill-Nothing Congress
Do the Right Thing - Start Drilling - RealClearPolitics
Gouging Big Oil means gouging you - Union Leader
The Politics of Oil Shale
S.2958, AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION ACT OF 2008 - Republican Senate
Oil shale may finally have its moment
Oil pollution of the sea
Refining
Big Oil’s Answer to Carbon Law May Be Fuel Imports
Nationalize Oil Refineries
New South Dakota Oil Refinery One Step Closer to Reality
Farmers fight plans for new oil refinery
Blast from the Past (2004): "The Great Refinery Shortage"
Capacity has increased - PolitiFact
Speculation
The Politics of ‘Speculation’
Obama vs. the oil bubble
As Oil Sinks, U.S. Officials Plan to Fight Speculation
How to Burn the Speculators - Mother Jones
Legislators taking hard look at oil trading
Speculators' Reprieve - Investor's Business Daily
Experts weigh in on supply vs speculation debate
SCAPEGOATING THE SPECULATORS - New York Post
Fuels on the Hill
In defense of oil 'speculators'
Let's Shoot the Speculators! - RealClearPolitics
The case for Congress to regulate oil futures markets
Oil Paranoia - RealClearPolitics
Oil Speculation and Apple Pie - RealClearMarkets
The Oil Future - Washington Post
Solar
Energy may someday come in spray cans
Nation's largest solar plant to be built in NM
A solar plant that's worth its salt
Concentrated solar power could generate 'quarter of world's energy'
A Potential Breakthrough In Harnessing the Sun’s Energy - Yale Environment 360
Solar Meets Polar as Winter Curbs Clean Energy - NY Times
A Solar Gold Rush Is Spreading From California to New Jersey - AlterNet
Solar Thermal Projects Gather Steam, Opposition - Los Angeles Times
Solar future brightens as oil soars - The Guardian
Concentrated solar power - Salon News
Study: Solar to be competitive within a decade - csmonitor.com
Solar Energy Gets Huge Earmark in Bailout - Miami Herald
ENERGY: Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil
Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU - The Guardian
Solar's Time Has Finally Arrived - Yale Environment 360
Chemistry for the climate - Nature
Moving to a Clean Energy Future - Sen. Harry Reid, Huffington Post
Alternative energy technique to split hydrogen from water could lead to clean fuel, scientists say - guardian.co.uk
Solar ($24.34) v. Gas (25 Cents) - WSJ.com
Solar dyes give a guiding light - BBC NEWS
Japan's "Solar City" - Reuters
Turning Glare Into Watts - New York Times
TREC - concentrated solar
Market Value and Cost of Solar Electricity Production
Nanosolar
Wind
Are wind farms a health risk? US scientist identifies 'wind turbine syndrome'
Tilting at Wind Farms
Wind farms will be a monument to an age when our leaders collectively went off their heads
Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity
Action on wind farm radar threat to aircraft
Green homeowner hit with noise abatement order because 40ft wind turbine is driving his neighbours mad
Reports of wind farm health problems growing
On a Wing and Low Air: The Surprising Way Wind Turbines Kill Bats: Scientific American
Air Storage Is Explored for Energy - NYTimes.com
Wind power, alternative energy | Salon News
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind - The Observer
Wind ($23.37) v. Gas (25 Cents) - WSJ.com
Is Pickens Just Trying to Make an Extra Billion? - Fox News
How T. Boone Pickens' Energy Plan Just Got Killed - AlterNet
Aerogenerator could help UK meet wind energy target - guardian.co.uk
Pelosi and Pickens, Investment Partners - Washington Examiner
T. Boone Pickens Revises Energy Plan - Arizona Republic
My Plan to Escape the Grip of Foreign Oil - WSJ.com
Pickens' words more than just wind - Politico
Testimony - Wind Power: Not Green but Red
A boon for Pickens, not for America - Los Angeles Times
Picken's Words More Than Just Wind
Wind Power: A Reality Check
Wind whips up health fears - OregonLive.com
Geothermal
The Great Forgotten Clean-Energy Source: Geothermal - DISCOVER
Geothermal: Australia & New Zealand - Bloomberg.com
Enhanced Geothermal: The Next Killer App? - NY Times
Geodynamics – Power from the Earth – Geothermal energy
Hydro
As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams
Untapped Hydropower (pdf)
CO2 as Fuel
CO2 Recycling
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL): Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
Device Uses Solar Energy To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
Team to chemically transform carbon dioxide into carbon-neutral liquid fuels
Technology Review: Making Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide
Geneticist Craig Venter Wants to Create Fuel from CO2 : TreeHugger
Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline - New York Times
Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air
Carbon dioxide turned into hydrocarbon fuel - New Scientist
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Efficiency in CO2 to Fuel Technology - MarketWatch
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News by Subject (cont)
Biofuels
Exxon Sinks $600M Into Algae-Based Biofuels in Major Strategy Shift
Grassoline: Biofuels beyond Corn
For Greening Aviation, Are Biofuels The Right Stuff?
New standards could cut tax breaks for corn-based ethanol
White House to Step Up Ethanol Efforts
Alternative Fuel Folly
Pulp Nonfiction
Black Liquor Tax Boondoggle May Net Billions for Papermakers
VeraSun Suspends Production at Three Distilleries
Japanese scientists create diesel-producing algae - Times Online
Another inconvenient truth - International Herald Tribune
Powering Our Automotive Future with--Pond Scum: Scientific American
Britain criticises drive to develop biofuels
Biofuels from industrial/domestic wastewater
Ethanol eyed as culprit in food price spike
Focus: Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites - The Observer
First Algae Biodiesel Plant Goes Online - Gas 2.0
The Great Agrofuel Swindle
Deconstructing the Energy Bill
US energy bill mandate for corn-free ethanol presents huge opportunity, challenge for industry - International Herald Tribune
Stop requiring ethanol production - Los Angeles Times
Miscellaneous
Laser quest: The scientist with a planet-saving plan straight out of Spider-Man
On the road with the Airpod air-powered car
Scientific American: Alternative Energy
Gore: Try 100% Renewable Energy Within Decade - The Guardian
Gore's Nutty Idea
Ocean
British 'Searaser' invention promises green power revolution on the waves
Generating Energy From the Deep
Pelamis "wave-snakes" inaugurated as part of world's first commercial-scale wave power station in Aguçadoura, Portugal - guardian.co.uk
Tidal power comes to Northern Ireland | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Nuclear
Climate Bill Ignores Our Biggest Clean Energy Source
The New Nuclear Revolution
Nuking green myths
Plentiful Energy and the IFR Stor
A key energy industry nervously awaits its 'rebirth' - NY Times
If Not Yucca, Then Where For Waste? - IBD
Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes - The Observer
Prescription for the Planet (pdf)
It's Time to Embrace Nuclear Power - RealClearPolitics
Nuclear isn't necessary - Nature
The Solution: Nuclear Power - Townhall
VA Sitting on the Energy Mother Lode - Wall Street Journal
Candidates Offer Few Nuclear Energy Specifics - Dallas Morning News
As Energy Demands Grow, Nuclear Deserves New Look - USA Today
McCain calls for building 45 new nuclear reactors - My Way News
Nuclear power gaining momentum in the US - Spero News
Delay on Yucca Mountain Waste Site Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
Conservation/Efficiency
With new charge, saving electricity could end up costing Missourians
Hot tub technology
Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting
Can we cut energy to ease global warming?
Obscure Fee Pays for Efficient Energy Projects
Maine Compact Fluorescent Lamp Breakage Study Report
What to Do if a Fluorescent or Other Mercury-Containing Light Bulb Breaks - EPA
Politically inconvenient truth about electric cars - FT
Company With Hybrid Battery Solution to Seek Billions From Energy Department - NYTimes
Ultracapacitors: the future of electric cars or the "cold fusion" of autovation? - csmonitor.com
Flat-screen TVs to face energy-efficiency rules in California
Despite drop in oil, Americans seal up for winter - Reuters
The Element That Could Change the World - DISCOVER
Localities Make Pitch for Efficient Projects
Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars - New York Times
Will plug-in hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt succeed? - guardian.co.uk
High-Efficiency Generators for Hybrid Vehicles
Time For Real Fuel Economy - New York Times
Al Gore's Personal Electricity Consumption Up 10% - Tennessee Center for Policy Research
Blowing hot and cold on thermoelectrics - Guardian
Big Oil isn't the big problem - Los Angeles Times
The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke - Time
Way Overinflated Claims On Tire Pressure Savings - YVM Fact Check
The Truth about Tire Pressure - FactCheck.org
Fact Check: Properly inflated tires cut gas use - RealClearPolitics
Not overinflated (though it sounds like it) - PolitiFact
Obama’s Answer to Drilling Debate: Inflate Your Tires - YouTube
Coal
The Dirty War Against Clean Coal
Is America Ready to Quit Coal? - NY Times
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants - Reuters
Repeal sought for ban on U.S. Govt. use of CTL, oil shale, tar sands-generated fuel
Saving lives with coal
Coal-to-gas: part of a low-emissions future? - Nature
Coal Investors Take Their Lump - IBT Commodities & Futures
Lump sums: Global reserves of coal may be rapidly diminishing - The Guardian
Coal-to-oil mass converter due to start operation this year
Coal Liquefaction
General News/Opinion
Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go
Obama's dangerous game with energy policy
Let's Do Something -- Anything
Waxman-Markey Flunks Math
The Elusive Green Economy
Senate Panel Approves Energy Bill
Compromises Threaten Energy Bill’s Chances on Senate Floor
Obama's European Energy Vacation
Energy Myths and Realities
The case for buying renewable-energy certificates
U.S. Gas Fields Go From Bust to Boom
A primer for global warming deniers
Flame Off!: Turning Natural Gas Pollution into Gasoline
Renewable Energy's Environmental Paradox
Pentagon Prioritizes Pursuit Of Alternative Fuel Sources
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
Electrical 'Smart Grid' Not Yet Smart Enough to Block Hackers
Obama's Energy Focus
$750 billion "green" investment could revive economy: U.N.
US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks
Chávez reopens oil bids to West as prices plunge
Energy industry braces for Obama
The Net-Zero Gas Tax - A once in a generation chance
Back Channels: On energy, Democrats in office means a return to the 1970s. | Philadelphia Inquirer
What's so bad about foreign oil? - Los Angeles Times
Palin's Petropolitics - The Nation
How oil burst the American bubble - Asia Times Online
$4 Gasbags - WSJ.com
Energy Issue Generates Heat - Post-Crescent
America Embraces Energy Independence - GOPUSA
Oil crisis fuels blame game - Los Angeles Times
Learning from the Oil Shock - RealClearPolitics
Running on Empty
Forcing Oil Companies to Subsidize the Competition - RealClearPolitics
Full speed ahead on new energy - csmonitor.com
Can the United States still protect the oil supply? - Slate
John Stephen Releases Plan For American Energy Independence - Politicker NH
Opposing Views: Have We Reached Peak Oil?
Senate 'Gang of 10' Offers Bipartisan Energy Plan - FOXNews.com
High Gas Prices and the Marxist tactic of Crisis revolution - American Thinker
Closing Iran's Oil Spigot - The American
Washington Times - Energy compromise elusive as recess looms
Why Paris Hilton Is Right About Energy - Newsweek
Blunt Announces Republican Plan to Lower Gas Prices | Reuters
RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Great Energy Confusion
Palin Should Focus on Energy Contrasts - National Review
There's an Energy Crisis - Washington Post
Four Things to Worry About This Fall - Slate
The New Energy Consensus - RealClearPolitics
Venezuela Plays The Russia Card - Investor's Business Daily
Sarah Palin, Our Energy Answer - RealClearMarkets
Will Environmentalists Thwart Drilling? - Weekly Standard
The Idiocy of Energy Independence - RealClearPolitics
How Foreign Policy Affects Gas Prices - Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Straight Talk
Pelosi Spins and Smears on Drilling - RealClearPolitics
Oil Exec: Can't Drill Out of This Problem; Energy Independence Unrealistic - ABC News
A Generational Challenge to Repower America - Al Gore
Democrats Sputtering on Energy - Washington Times
Where McCain, Obama Stand on Energy - Seattle Times
Candidates Fail Energy Independence Test - FOXNews.com
Do Republicans have the guts to win the energy fight? - Examiner.com
Strong Energy Measures Wanted - washingtonpost.com
REAL Energy Solutions from House Republicans
Marketplace: Energy independence won't help us
A Series - The Energy Challenge - NYTimes.com
Energy Policy: Setting the Stage for the Current Debate
In Defense of Exxon Mobil - Investor's Business Daily
The Power of the Pipeline - Washington Post
An Empty Promise on Energy - New York Times
Conflict Offers Glimpse at New World Order - WSJ
Dems' Ostrich Approach on Oil - New York Post
Energy Fictions - New York Times
It's Simple: Drill and Conserve - Washington Post
McCain's Drilling Plan Full of Holes - New York Observer
Free the Oil - And Other Slick Tricks - SF Chronicle
Energy Independence: A Bi-Partisan Pander - RCP
Politicians Can Set the True Cost of Energy - Arizona Republic
Boone Doggle - Wall Street Journal
Guerilla Congress: The Good Fight Continues - NRO
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices
Give Exxon a Break - Los Angeles Times
A Dwindling Oil Supply? - Washington Post
Russia to join OPEC in output cut - Bloomberg.com
Red Flags on Remaking Energy Policy
Saudis Signal Deeper Oil Output Cuts
Renewable energy: Obama's cruise to the White House puts the wind back in green sails - The Guardian
Capitalism to the Rescue - NYTimes.com
A task of terawatts : Article : Nature
Renewables Aren't the Answer
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