His partner in the REAL Housing Ltd. project is Michael Brandemuehl. "It’s getting to the point where with good energy efficient technologies the typical roof areas that people have on their houses is more than enough to produce the energy they use over the course of a year and still put more energy back into grid,” Brandemuehl said. “All the roofs that are around the country are in some ways a great resource that is under utilized."

The uranium spot markets are under pressure and the price has been in freefall. In late June last year, uranium spot prices hit the highs at US$136 per pound, from a low of US$7 per pound in 2000, bolstered by a tight market and speculative buying. Currently, the price is down by slightly over 60% from June's, sending quivers throughout the markets.

"The worrying trend is that if the manufacturing costs continue to increase, then I think that the wind target is under threat," said Mr Sambhi.

Now a process that converts sea water into a possible fuel source is gaining legitimacy.

E-Fuel Corp unveiled on Thursday the "MicroFueler" touting it as the world's first machine that allows homeowners to make their own ethanol and pump the brew directly into their cars.

Juergen Voegele, director for agriculture and rural development department at the World Bank, cautioned against shifting a lot of the blame to biofuels but also said massive subsidies for the biofuel industry was not helping the crisis.

Since coming to power in 1994, the African National Congress government has spearheaded the building of low cost, subsidised houses to overcome the homelessness created by apartheid. However, many of these structures are what is termed "core houses", meaning they lack flooring, geysers and other amenities.

Lighting industry entrepreneurs are hoping alternative devices such as solar-powered LED lights will replace the kerosene lamps.

Democrats and Republicans cheered its benefits as Congress directed a fivefold increase in ethanol use as a motor fuel. President Bush called it key to his strategy to cut gasoline use by 20 percent by 2010.

While PETA's aim here seems to be to be to publicise their opposition to the consumption of animals (as shown in the quote below), there is another angle to this story which is perhaps more interesting for those interested in energy issues - which comes back to "the oil we eat".

GREET was developed as a multidimensional spreadsheet model in Microsoft Excel. This public domain model is available free of charge for anyone to use. The first version of GREET was released in 1996. Since then, Argonne has continued to update and expand the model. The most recent GREET versions are GREET 1.8b version for fuel-cycle analysis and GREET 2.7 version for vehicle-cycle analysis.

The government's EPE energy planning agency said on Thursday sugar cane had a 16 percent share in the country's so-called energy matrix -- a combination of all sources of energy including fuels and electricity -- while power dams were left behind with a 14.7 percent share.

But fledgling efforts to turn Arizona into the solar capital of the world depend on making the initial investment in new energy plants affordable – something that could become much more difficult, perhaps even impossible, if a federal tax credit for solar projects expires at the end of the year as scheduled.

Quite a few people believe that if there is a decline in oil production, we can make up much of the difference by increasing our use of electricity--more nuclear, wind, solar voltaic, geothermal or even coal. The problem with this model is that it assumes that our electric grid will be working well enough for this to happen. It seems to me that there is substantial doubt that this will be the case.