Hawaii: Pristine black sand beaches… surfing… spectacular volcanic eruptions… and miles of pineapple plantations. If you are like me, this is what comes to mind when you imagine Hawaii.

Just as the United States is boosting its reliance on wind power, a new academic study set for release in August says that U.S. wind forces may be getting weaker.

There’s lots of money to be made in the “clean energy” sector…Maybe more so now than ever before. My confidence in the investment potential of renewable energy gained some interesting corroboration the other day.

The price of oil has to at least triple in the next few years. This could easily be your ticket to an earlier or richer retirement.

While everyone is focused on what Obama will do with green energy, it is pointed out that Canada is the largest, nearest, most reliable, and friendliest source of oil the U.S. has. Obama would be smart to enhance that relationship even further.

Thanks to President Obama’s love for green energy, Plug-in Hybrid vehicles will be everywhere in the next few years.

That opens up a promising opportunity for you to buy shares of one of the largest industrial battery producers before they soar in the years ahead.

There is a much better way to generate nuclear energy, says Patrick Cox. Thorium is more efficient, more abundant and less hazardous than uranium. Patrick says it is government subsidies and regulations are blocking the widespread use of thorium. But if Obama removes these barriers, it could become the ultimate alternative energy.

Solar panels offer one of the most promising futures for electricity generation. And with future generations of panels, conversion rates will skyrocket while prices drop – allowing solar power to enter into the mainstream.

Algae has great potential as an alternative and clean source of oil. Greg Gunner Guenthner we could see a powerful new energy industry emerging in the next few years. He says early investors could make huge profits with these three small cap companies developing the technology to extract fuel from algae.

Irwin Greenstein, writing for Contarian Profits, says look no further than today’s Wall Street Journal if you want to fully understand why alternative energy will take decades to prosper.