The Daily Sprout
Proposed DOE Budget Isn’t Good for Cleantech: As part of the President’s proposed budget, the Department of Energy would spend about $26 billion in 2009 with more money for coal, nuclear, and biofuels while solar and hydrogen would get cuts – Green Car Congress.
GM Debuts Beefy Hybrid Pickups: General Motors will be showing off two new hybrid trucks, the 2009 GMC Sierra and the GMC Denali XT concept, at the Chicago Auto Show this week – Associated Press.
The Biofuels Follies: George Will in his The Last Word column jumps on the bandwagon to highlight the environmental hypocrisy of America’s ethanol infatuation – Newsweek.
IBM Plans for Rising Seas: Big Blue plans to establish The IBM Global Center of Excellence for Water Management which will help predict and protect low-lying countries from the effects of climate change. Forward-thinking for a big company, but the center is to be located in sub-sea level land of Amsterdam – GreenBiz.
Alternative Fuel Takes Flight: Airbus successfully completed the world’s first test of liquid fuel processed from gas in a commercial aircraft. This is part of an ongoing program to see how alternative fuels might mitigate the environmental effects of air travel – Clean Edge.
Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.