Once created, alternative energy must be transported to the most densely populated cities where it is ultimately required.
The Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt feel more important as symbols of alternative energy.
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Everybody gets wonderful new mass transit upgrades, alternative energy infrastructure, smart grids, and bridges to nowhere.
Based in Hong Kong, Lu Yeung, an analyst at UBS Securities, covers the alternative energy sector.
Solar power is not seen as a priority, even in alternative energy conscious Europe.
High crude oil prices also put a floor under alternative energy sources and their producers.
Akbank also addresses the issue of climate change and alternative energy in its social responsibility report.
Alternative energy sources, on the other hand, were not a major focus of the legislation.
Both have strongly championed the use of federal loan guarantees to boost alternative energy projects.
As the price of oil rises, people begin looking at alternative energy sources of all kinds.
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He's talking about investments in alternative energy to reduce our dependence on imported oil.
He was in the right business alternative energy in the right market, at the right time.
In fact, perhaps all alternative energy stories now should have a national political bent.
Despite the ambiguous attitudes toward alternative energy technologies, their development has altered the energy security equation.
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Luca also happens to be riding a wave of investment in alternative energy technologies.
There are a growing number of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track various alternative energy indices.
Is this a bargain for one of the biggest players in the global alternative energy sector?
"Wind is arguably the best alternative energy option right now in the United States, " says Culver.
Even consensus on principle such as over the need to promote alternative energy often breaks down in practice.
Alternative energy should benefit, but this has been a risky sector to invest in.
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Some, indeed, think alternative energy will be the basis of a boom bigger than information technology.
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Meanwhile, alternative energy stocks were in rally mode, including a 2.3% gain for First Solar.
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In the slumping financial markets, shares in alternative energy firms have plunged precipitously.
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Over 26 years, Senator McCain voted 23 times against alternative energy, like solar, and wind, and biodiesel.
Semiconductor technology will also play a key role in the development of economically viable alternative energy sources.
By the year 2020, the Navy wants half of its fuel to come from alternative energy sources.
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In the foreseeable future, traditional energy is much cheaper, and subsidies for alternative energy are a waste.
This company right here, some of its key customers are folks who are active in alternative energy.
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Billions of dollars have been poured into alternative energy technologies and companies in the past several years.
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