Article Title: Havasu Team Competing in Hybrid 'Super-Car' Contest

Excerpt: Except for its bright green exterior, at the moment this late 1980s Chevy Blazer looks pretty much like any other gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing sport utility vehicle on the road. But when a team of local engineers and mechanics are finished tricking it out, it will get at least 100 miles per gallon, accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in at least 12 seconds and emit a fraction of the carbon emissions of a regular car.

Excerpt: An electric DC motor will power all four wheels, drawing juice from lead acid or lithium-ion batteries. Solar panels on the roof and sides will allow the car to soak up power from the sun's rays, and a small diesel generator - with hydrogen boost - will give the car added range and speed.

Article Title: Clean vs. dirty is only part of renewable energy debate

Excerpt: Those in favor of I-937 argue that regulations are needed to force utilities to grow in ways that won't worsen global warming by releasing heat-trapping gases created by burning fossil fuels. They say the requirements will lead to better energy conservation, such as education on saving energy and incentives for fluorescent light bulbs and efficient appliances.

Excerpt: If the Washington measure passes, by 2020 the larger utilities must get 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources -- primarily wind -- or from other sources including solar, wave or tidal power and methane captured from landfills and dairy cow manure.

Excerpt: Reiner is the president of Qualco Energy, a non-profit consortium that's building a facility to create power from poop. "Everything that's organic, people and everything, when they deteriorate, they give off a methane gas," Reiner said. "That's what we're after."

Excerpt: At this point, the largest potential source of renewable energy comes from wind, which currently provides about 1 percent of the state's energy supply. How much wind energy is available and at what cost is hotly debated. The equation is complicated by the inherently unpredictable and irregular nature of wind energy. To make it work, wind has to be paired with more reliable power sources.

Article Title: Panel orders utilities to use 15 percent clean fuels by 2025

Excerpt: PHOENIX - Arizona utility regulators on Tuesday ramped up the state's requirements for electricity providers to use power from solar, wind and other renewable sources.

Excerpt: "Move over California," Mayes said. "With these rules, we are making Arizona the solar energy capital of the world once again."

Excerpt: Along with solar photovoltaic and wind technology, the renewable sources covered by the rules include biomass, geothermal and certain types of hydro projects.

Excerpt: he sole dissenting vote was cast by Commissioner Mike Gleason, who said the rules would pose costly burdens for both utilities and their customers because of artificially increased demand for uneconomical and unreliable power sources.

Article Title: 'Holy Grail' of energy?

Excerpt: U scientists have discovered a clean, quick and relatively easy way to transform soybean oil into high-value gases that could be used to power fuel cells and other future energy sources. And because the process works with plant wastes too, researchers hope they're on to something big.

Excerpt: This time, Schmidt and his team focused on cellulosic energy, or breaking down a plant's cell structure, and tapping the sugars inside to make usable energy. The findings are published in the Nov. 3 issue of Science.

Excerpt: One of the thorniest economic problems of making biofuel from cornstalks or sawdust has been the daunting cost of transporting the bulky materials to a distant factory. With Schmidt's invention, you wouldn't have to — the "factory" could be located on a farm or at a sawmill. "If you can eliminate the need to haul volumes of this bulky biomass, by using a device such as Lanny's, all of a sudden you've changed the paradigm," Hemmingsen said.

Article Title: Oil Giants Put Energy Into Other Resources

Excerpt: Late this month, the microbes will start transforming truckloads of restaurant grease into electricity for a water pollution control plant in Millbrae, Calif. The one-of-a-kind setup relieves the city and area eateries of a fatty disposal headache while saving energy. And it has come with the help of a surprising backer: Chevron Corp.

Excerpt: "You don't think of a big energy company being involved in anything but gasoline," said Dick York, superintendent of the Millbrae plant. "But Chevron is really trying to diversify. Working together, we've brought forward a project … that puts waste to work."

Excerpt: Royal Dutch Shell has become one of the world's largest developers of wind farms and is part owner of two in California. Chevron operates massive geothermal plants in Indonesia and the Philippines. And BP is a partner in hydrogen power plants proposed for Carson and Scotland.

Excerpt: The London-based company is a leader in harnessing the sun's power. Its solar subsidiary is a top manufacturer of solar panels and equipment and it has installed solar systems in 100 countries. In California, the company has funded solar research at Caltech, installed a solar power system at a water pumping station in Vallejo and sold home solar systems through Home Depot.