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		<title>China passes US as largest energy consumer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The fact that China overtook the U.S. as the world&#8217;s largest energy consumer symbolizes the start of a new age in the history of energy,&#8221; IEA chief economist Fatih Birol said in an interview. The WSJ article reports that China&#8217;s total energy consumption was just half the size of the U.S. 10 years ago.   The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=270&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Wire, March 27, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekends greetings all, In this edition of The Weekend Wire: being resourceful with a precious resource - water, an Austin, Texas power grid project looks to revolutionize power-usage, Greentech businesses are benefitting from the Recovery Act, and public opinion shows growing support for renewable energy sources. In the China Focus section: China wins&#8230;again, some cool graphics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=251&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chu Talks Small Modular Reactors in WSJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy Secretary Steven Chu wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal this morning outlining the need for rejuvenating the U.S. nuclear power industry.  He discusses the benefits and implications of such an initiative for the American people: Investing in nuclear energy will position America to lead in a growing industry. World-wide electricity generation is projected to rise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=239&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calera Lands Investment from Coal Giant Peabody</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I linked a Tom Friedman Op-Ed piece profiling two up-and-coming Greentech firms: Bloom Energy and Calera.  At the time, Bloom was making a lot of headlines, but it was Calera that Friedman dubbed to be the real breakout star, citing not only the company&#8217;s exciting technology but also a rumored upcoming investment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=220&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Wire, March 19, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy weekend all.  In this edition of the Weekend Wire, Scientific America ponders whether or not the Earth has reached its tipping point, new energy technologies break ground&#8230;or&#8230;sea, the EU&#8217;s carbon markets take a hit, and hopes for a US carbon market crawl back from the dead. In this week&#8217;s China Focus section, the New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=205&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NREL releases interactive PV tracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about the recent Green craze is the massive amount of attention put on renewable energy.  Whilst the US continues to be brow-beaten by other nations, from China to India, about what they should, need to be, or are not currently doing, those in the loop are seeing a massive push towards transparency in Green initiatives within the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=193&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By Your Powers Combined: Biomass Gasification Meets Solar Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piggy-backing on the post from earlier this morning, MIT Technology Review has profiled an intriguing biomass gasification project here in the States.  What makes this particular project intriguing?  It uses concentrated solar energy to produce its renewable fuel. Colorado company Sundrop Fuels is currently refining technology that hopes to make biofuel production more efficient and improve the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=190&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking with Biogas: Going Green One Village at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sustainable Will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we profiled one of the many local renewable energy projects in China that is taking advantage of local sustainable resources to generate power, reduce pollution and stimulate the economy.  Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region launched China&#8217;s first sugar cane/agricultural waste power plant, which turns otherwise wasted crop excess into biofuel. Today&#8217;s video from Reuters explores another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hermesgreentalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11342341&amp;post=187&amp;subd=hermesgreentalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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