Crude oil futures fell below $80 a barrel after Chinese banking rules raise fears the country might slam the brakes on growth.

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Green Ink: Oil Slumps and T. Boone Punts

Call it the Chuck Schumer effect. Less than two weeks after New York’s senior senator railed against the Chinese wind farm planned for Texas, since it would mean mostly Chinese jobs, the companies behind the project announced their plans to build a huge wind-turbine factory in the U.S. A-Power, the Chinese wind-turbine maker, and local partners U.S

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Chinese Breeze: A-Power Plans Big Wind-Turbine Plant in U.S.

That big new wind farm in Texas, to be financed and supplied by the Chinese, is giving New York senator Chuck Schumer fits. Sen.

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Fickle Breezes: Sen. Schumer Takes Aim at Chinese Wind Farm in Texas

Crude oil futures treaded water around $78 a barrel ahead of an expected increase in U.S. oil stocks and with plenty of uncertainty about real demand. “The fundamental picture is bearish,” one analyst tells Bloomberg .

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Green Ink: The Climate Bill, Smart Grid, Clean Coal, and Chinese Cars

Is natural gas a friend to – or foe of – renewable energy? Earlier this month, at the big clean energy summit in Las Vegas , a parade of dignitaries praised natural gas for generating electricity with about half the carbon emissions as coal. And Energy Secretary Steven Chu called T

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Wind and Natural Gas: Frenemies Forever

The Texas legislature might have fumbled in its efforts to pass a solar-incentive bill , but that isn’t stopping big solar projects from setting up shop in the Lone Star State’s arid, sunny parts. More stationary West Texas sun catchers (Chinati Foundation) On Monday afternoon, CPS Energy will announce a deal to buy solar power from a West Texas solar project to be build by Tessera Solar using technology from Stirling Energy Systems . The two are sister companies both owned by NTR Plc out of Ireland

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Big, Big Solar Coming to West Texas

The GOP energy plan predictably has drawn a lot of criticism. What’s really interesting is that the critiques aren’t aimed so much at the fact that Republicans presented a big energy plan right as they lost the ability to implement one, but rather on the plan’s emphasis on nuclear power

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Going Nuclear: GOP Energy Plan Draws Heavy Flak

Despite the slowdown this year in the wind industry, the U.S.

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Wind Power: Everything’s Bigger in Texas

AMAZING! We actually found a hosting company that reports that their servers are powered by the GREEN energy of WIND POWER. Located in Texas, Hostgator has been around for awhile. So we have seen them before, but we had not tried them before. When I read on their front page that the power they use comes from a WIND FARM then I knew we needed to try their services which we have (it didn’t hurt that they are presently offering 20% off). And to report, we are very happy with the outcome. Quick account processing, quick roll-over. Great control panel. And very responsive to our needs.

They report that their servers are 130% wind powered! So they are actually reversing their usage. This is definitely the right direction. So check out HOSTGATOR.