Electric Vehicles should be a more common sight on your local streets in the next few years as consulting firm predicts the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery market will grow 125 percent from 2010 to 2016 according to consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.The ... [more]

Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks) submits: I've been researching and writing this series about investments that will benefit from peak oil for half a year. If you've read the 20+ articles in the series so far, you've learned about several stocks that sh... [more]

Join the forum discussion on this postThis week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential fo... [more]

The Manual of Ideas submits:Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has for some time been synonymous with the vast untapped opportunity in U.S. onshore natural gas shale plays. As gas prices have remained depressed relative to oil prices longer than most expected, ... [more]

Konrad Imielinski submits: Oil prices have decreased $7.03 (8.9%) within this time frame: August 2nd, 2010 (Monday) Complete Story ... [more]

I'm not much of a web guy, but I'm terrifically impressed with Twitter these days.For one thing, after I posted a pretty critical take today on a book I'd just read, it was a new experience to have the author (Vinnie Mirchandani, The New Polymath ) ... [more]

By Lester R. BrownThe heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating ... [more]

Cheap, plentiful biofuels could ameliorate a host of global problems: carbon emissions, trade imbalances, agricultural employment in the middle of the country and in emerging nations.And there is no doubting the demand. The world consumes the equi... [more]

Join the forum discussion on this postI am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil p... [more]

SL Advisors submits:By Henry HoffmanEnsco plc (ESV) is a global offshore driller, based in London, that has seen its shares pull back in stride with other offshore companies following the Macondo accident and recent decline in oil prices.Uniquely, En... [more]