Alternative Energy

By Michael A. Gayed, Minyanville.com Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. -- Winston Churchill Alternative energy has been a heartbreaking industry to invest in over the years despite some incredible breakthroughs. The fundamental problem has to do with high costs to produce such energy...

Eagle killed by wind turbine, one of 1,200 daily wind-related bird fatalities: The graphic video above shows a magnificent eagle getting killed by a wind turbine.  According to a 2009 estimate from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (reported on the American Bird Conservancy website here), those...

With the green movement as strong as ever, Cushman & Wakefield released its second annual Green Building Opportunity Index, which determined the country's top 10 green real estate markets. The Green Real Estate Law Journal gives us the list below. (Click the following link for the full article...

Investors wanting a stealth play on the growth of solar and wind energy, should focus their attention on the power inverter companies. These mechanisms convert direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). Solar panels, energy storage devices and wind turbines generally produce DC power....

Both the Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (NYSE: KWT) and the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (NYSE: TAN) have seen their share prices bump around recently as cheap traditional fuel sources and the threat of European austerity have taken the sun out of alternative energy investing. However, the...

After years of conducting business as a research firm Ocean Power Technologies (NASDAQ: OPTT) announced recently that the company will move forward with commercial production of its largest Aqua Buoy capable of generating 500 kilowatts or enough to power 300 homes. This dwarfs its previous 150...