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Oil:
www.environmental integrity.or g	Oil Refinery Permits- A Handbook for Citizen Participation in the Permitting of Oil Refineries under the New Source Review Provisions of the Clean Air Act. Environmental Integrity Project 2007. PDF.
www.oilendgame.com	Rocky Mountain Institute's Winning the Oil Endgame (PDF— 2.0 MB) download here without charge. Since its 20 September 2004 publication, more than 100,000 free copies have been downloaded to more than 50 countries.
www.ted.com	Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change. TED Video.


Peak Oil Page...


Policy:
ase.org	Alliance to Save Energy. Comparison of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Updated: 01/28/2009 Summary based on text of H.R. 1, the House Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act as introduced on 01/26/2009 and the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Appropriations Committee’s S. 336 Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act Summary released on 01/27/09.
www.eia.doe.gov	Renewable Energy Legislation and Incentives. Energy Information Administration is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy whose mission is to provide policy-neutral data, forecasts, and analyses.
www.elsevier.com	Environmental Science and Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. Hit- Full text in ScienceDirect on right side of page.
www.worldenergy.org	"Deciding the Future: Energy Policy Scenarios to 2050" World Energy Council. Promoting the sustainable supply and use of energy for the greatest benefit of all. This major WEC study is a bottom-up regional view of our energy future focusing on policies to ensure energy sustainability. Introductory video. Nov 2007. PDF.

Clean Energy Resources. Links to everything you need to know about clean, renewable energy. Green energy links,
renewable energy information, clean energy data, clean energy information.

Clean Energy

One kilowatt (kW) is one thousand watts.
One megawatt (MW) is one million watts.

Daily average home load varies greatly by region-
from 2 to 4 kW.
(Home loads average approximately 9,000-12,000
kilowatt-hours of electricity per year...
about 800-1000 kWh per month.)
Depending on capacity factors, roughly...

1 megawatt will power 500 to 800 homes.

100 megawatts will power 50,000 to 80,000 homes.
1000 MW equals 1 GW.

1 gigawatt will power approx 500,000 to 800,000 homes.

One gigawatt (GW) is equal to one billion watts
One terawatt (TW) is equal to one trillion watts.

Nuclear:
www.eia.doe.gov	US and International Data on Waste, Fuel and Plants. Energy Information Administration is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy whose mission is to provide policy-neutral data, forecasts, and analyses to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.


Nuclear- Fourth Generation Orgs:
www.gen-4.org	Generation IV International Forum, or GIF, was chartered in July 2001 to lead the collaborative efforts of the world's leading nuclear technology nations to develop next generation nuclear energy systems to meet the world's future energy needs.
nuclear.energy.gov	U.S. Department of Energy. Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems info.


Nuclear- Fourth Generation- Reports:
www.21stcentury sciencetech .com	"Safer, Cheaper, more Efficient- Inside the Fourth-Generation Reactors" 21st Century Science & Technology (partial text) Spring 2001 issue.
www.engr.utk.edu	"Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems; How They Got Here and Where They are Going." U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Presentation- Describes 6 systems. Good diagrams. PDF.
www.ecology.at	"Is there a Future for Nuclear" Conclusion: "It is widely assumed that Generation IV systems will not be commercially available before 2030 and there is no indication that these reactors will make nuclear power leave the league of the most expensive sources for electricity generation.'' Austrian Institute of Ecology. PDF.
gif.inel.gov	"A Technology Roadmap for the Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems" U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee and the Generation IV International Forum.


Nuclear Reports:
www.grid.unep.ch	United Nations Environment Programme- Environment Alert Bulletin. 'Nuclear waste: is everything under control?' - Questions widely-utilized solutions to the problem of nuclear waste. (Feb-2007) PDF. ***


Nuclear Waste:
www.ocrwm.doe.gov	U.S. Dept of Energy. Yucca Mountain Repository Info.

World Electricity Generation in 2004

Non-Renewables:

Gwh

Coal

6,944,328

39.61

Gas

3,418,676

19.50

Nuclear

2,738,012

15.62

Oil

1,170,152

6.67

Non-renewable total:

14,271,200

81.42

Renewables:

Hydro power

2,889,094

16.48

Biomass

149,811

.85

Waste

77,471

.44

Wind

82,259

.47

Geothermal

55,896

.32

Solar thermal

1,608

.01

Solar PV

840

Tide, Wave, Ocean

551

Renewables Total

3,257,530

18.58

Total World Generation

17,530,990

100.

International Energy Agency- www.iea.org

The International Energy Agency reported that U.S. spending in 2006, for all
energy research; nuclear, wind, coal, solar, biofuels, etc...was $3.2 billion. The
Pentagon currently spends that much in 40 hours.

Net Metering:
www.eere.energy.gov	EERE U.S. Department of Energy. Green Power Network Net Metering info.
www.irecusa.org	Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Connecting to the Grid program provides services and resources to facilitate the development of interconnection standards and net metering for renewable-energy systems and other forms of distributed generation.


Net Metering News:
www.irecusa.org	Interstate Renewable Energy Council's Connecting to the Grid Newsletter is published electronically every month by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and the North Carolina Solar Center at North Carolina State University. Free publication.


Net Metering Reports:
www.eia.doe.gov	DOE's Energy Information Administration "Green Pricing and Net Metering Programs Data of 2006" released Aug 2008.

The average U.S. house consumes about 1000 W per hour.

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Algae: link to BioFuel page

Bacteria-Enzymes: link to Biofuel page

Batter ies page...

2005 Energy Act
First major energy legislation enacted by Congress in a decade:
$13.1 billion for oil, gas and coal,
$12 billion for nuclear energy and
$7.7 billion divided up among all the rest...
NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/business/25lab.html

BioFuels page ...

BioMass: link to BioFuels page...

Renewable Electricity Standards:
www.wri.org	"Bottom Line on Renewable Electricity Standards" Renewable Electricity Standard policies have stimulated markets for renewable energy across the country, providing more opportunities for businesses to advance and support clean energy technologies. With growing interest in state and national RES policies, it is important to understand RES policy design, impacts, and opportunities. World Resources Institute, April 2008.


Schools:
www.ase.org	Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program- currently in place on twelve California university campuses. Lists goals, structure and resources and rationale.


Solar page ...


Tax Incentives:
www.dsireusa.org	Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency. DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. ***
www.energytaxincentives.org	Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP), sponsored by a coalition of public interest nonprofit groups, government agencies, and other organizations in the energy efficiency field, is designed to give consumers and businesses information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies passed by Congress as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ***


Videos:
liveearth.org	Al Gore introduced a five point plan that “…would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis–and create millions of new jobs that cannot be outsourced,” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.


Wave-Tidal-Ocean Energy Page ...


Wind Page ...

As of mid 2008 approximately $9.5 billion has been spent on the Yucca
Mountain Nuclear Waste Site.
And there isn't any waste stored in it as of yet.
www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ym_repository/index.shtml#4

'Nuclear energy supplies around 17% of the total electrical
energy generated in the world- but the average age of nuclear
reactors in use is 22 years.'
www.grid.unep.ch/product/publication/download/ew_nuclear.en.pdf