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- Biofuels Professor Says Corn Will Never Work [view article]
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- Alternate Ways to Invest in Clean Energy [view article]
- Green Investing and Risk Management [view article]
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Biofuels Professor Says Corn Will Never Work [view article]
This is great news! ReplyCongress & Alternative Energy: Investment Ideas [view article]
FYIEPA recently rejected a petition to waive 50% of the requirement to purchase and blend corn ethanol for the period spanning September 2008 through August 2009.
The EPA's reaffirmation of this standard sends a strong signal to the investment community: our government is serious about adhering to its commitment to enhance our nation's energy security
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 strengthened the RFS by increasing the mandated amount of renewable fuels used annually in the United States to 36 billion gallons by 2022, of which at least 16 billion must be cellulosic ethanol, which is derived from non-food feedstocks such as agricultural residues, canes, wood and grasses. This federal commitment to advanced biofuels provides a stable and predictable market framework for companies like Verenium (VRNM), which just began start-up and commissioning one of the nation's first demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities. Reply
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Congress & Alternative Energy: Investment Ideas [view article]
Congress needs to stop playing games and do what is right for Americans. ReplyCongress & Alternative Energy: Investment Ideas [view article]
Big Oil companies face more than production declines, they face the year to year decrease in their percent of that production. When the dust settles from this aspect, The US will have to be nice to countries they have snubbed to get that percent back. ReplyGreen Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Forthose interested in the solar storage problem that keeps solarfrom being truly viable...a solution may be at hand..www.sciencedaily.com/r... Reply
Alternate Ways to Invest in Clean Energy [view article]
If we are to get up to 20% by 2020, we're going to have to get cracking. The same Department of Energy says that in 2007 (preliminary figure) wind provided 31/100 of ONE percent of our energy consumption, up from 26/100 of ONE percent the previous year. That is truly a minuscule amount. The best you can say for it is that the field is wide open! ReplyAlternate Ways to Invest in Clean Energy [view article]
Here is another mutual fund, not to be overlooked: ALTEX. ReplyAlternate Ways to Invest in Clean Energy [view article]
You like PBD over PBW because it is more diversified (~80 v. ~50 stocks; ~two-thirds v. ~ one-fourth foreign). You like GEX even better because of its global focus and lower expenses. Yet PBD seems considerably more diverse than GEX. Both hold about two-thirds foreign stock, but PBD has ~80 stocks v. only ~30 stocks for GEX, and PBD is less diversified in terms of industry. Am I missing something? ReplyKidding?!
Green Investing and Risk Management [view article]
good article ReplyGreen Investing and Risk Management [view article]
Renewable energy will not cure all our energy needs, we just use way to much but somebody has to getting us started on this and make it work where we can. I agree that it could be something we get excited about for a few years and then a bubble bursts, but unlike the internet, this is environmental security that is being tended to and most of the over 2600 companies listed in our green directory at www.greencollareconomy... are in it for the long haul. Alot of websites in the nineties couldn't see much further than winning venture capital funding. ReplyMoscardi
Green Investing and Risk Management [view article]
True, there may be a "bubble" for renewable energy - but that's mostly mob mentality I think. The difference between internet stocks and renewable energy is the product. Internet stock had no real asset behind it, it was bound to crumble. In the same way Bernstein suggests when you make an assumption your house can only increase in value, the opposite is bound to happen at some point.Renewable energy like wind and solar are bound to go up and down, and are even bound to become obsolete as technology changes, but the same argument can apply to traditional energy - oil and coal are bound to run out, become prohibitively expensive, and possibly destroy the ecosystem in the process. Personally, I prefer the risks of the former to the risks of the latter. Reply
speculator
Green Investing and Risk Management [view article]
Boone Pickens thinks that wind and solar are a big part of america's energy future. But this could be like internet stock 10 years ago-not good investments. ReplyMoscardi
Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Haha! Thanks for the advertisement, Stockaccumulator. According to my short term trading models, I would be short SOL as of June 13th, and would be up 30%+ (though it's not one of my top 20 positions, and I didn't trade it).Keep the pump and dump kind of vibes on someone else's posts perhaps. Reply
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Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Zacks published this (see below article) 7 trading days ago about Renesola (SOL), when the price was bouncing around at about $20.Zacks Rank in Industry 1 of 44... the best of all solars. Thats number one...
See Zacks' site. This in addition to Investors Business Daily June ranking of SOL as the 4th best company (not just solars but the whole world, every company) to invest in... and in addition to Piper Jaffray's amazing careful on site research on SOL. Piper Jaffray article in June practically audited SOL, and its clean balance sheet, and they love it.
Last week's drop was clearly a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater to raise cash to feel good before the July 4th weekend... No news on SOL, just bullish: New rediculous cost of oil, and local and national governments worldwide jumping on the Solar bandwagon...
Note that SOL actually sells to other solars, and has a unique method of production and supply, recycling for creation of its product... a unique process and company.
I trust all three combined, Zacks, IBD, and Piper Jaffray.
Read this quote from Zacks last week:
"Through its history, ReneSola regularly adapted to changing market dynamics. The company is aggressively ramping up its polysilicon and solar wafer production capacities. Going forward, increased captive generation of polysilicon will improve its cost structure and enable wafer capacity expansions. Globally, rising solar wafer sales, along with escalating crude and long-term supply agreements, should collectively generate significant earnings growth. Buoyed by these positive factors and
impressive results, SOL increased its 2008 production
output and sales guidance. Accordingly, with a
bullish outlook and an attractive relative valuation, we initiate coverage of SOL with a BUY recommendation and a six-month target price of $24.25, representing 27.2% upside potential."
Note: today, at $13 SOL upside would be perhaps 40% ... Zacks published this above article 7 trading days ago when SOL price was much higher... other analysts have targets of $40, some at $55...
Time to run to your laptop and buy SOL fast... Reply
Moscardi
Green Commodities for a Complete Green Portfolio [view article]
Jgib, I agree - I talk about my criteria for holdings like EWZ on the blog. I use biocapacity and carbon metrics for macro holdings (like currency and index), but there is some soul swallowing that happens. It's inevitable in green investing. Even green holdings have questionable things. I definitely understand the underlying hypocrisy, but I do use a series of actual scientific studies to come up with the allocations. In my opinion, the overall idea is to promote green and not sacrifice returns, and a holding like EWZ fits that model. Reply