In a often contentious debate tonight at the 2008 Presidential Debates at Ole Miss University in Oxford, Mississippi, both Senators John McCain and Barrack Obama touched on the measures they will take to advance alternative and renewable energy as part of their energy policies as President.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Tuesday that the conflict in Georgia threatens a strategic world global energy region. Just hours before, British oil giant British Petroleum closed two more oil and gas pipelines blaming the smoldering conflict.
“Recent escalation in military engagement between Russia and Georgia poses a threat to certain key oil and gas pipelines which transit Georgia,” the IEA said. Meanwhile, Georgia claimed Russian aircraft had attacked the region’s main oil transportation vein known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline but did not know if any damage had …

MIT scientists have come up with a new solar energy they believe will replace conventional storage technology.
A new revolution in solar power is set to bring energy from the sun into the night. A major barrier to large-scale solar power is having a way to store the sun’s energy so that it can be used at night or when skies are cloudy.
Solar power has historically been restricted to being a daytime source of energy as conventional photovoltaic solar panels produce energy only when the sun is shining. Storing solar …