Feb 9, 2010 (32 minutes ago)
From an announcement issued by Clean Wisconsin : Special interests and opponents of clean energy are working to stack the public hearing on Feburary 15 in the State Capitol. We need YOU to help deliver simple, strong messages in support of clean energy. Join us and take a bus sponsored by Clean Wisconsin from Milwaukee to the public hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs Act in Madison (monumental legislation to address global warming, renewable energy, and energy efficiency in Wisconsin). Date: February 15, 2010 Time: 7:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m. Location: State Capitol, Madison. Bus will depart from the Yonkers at the Bay Park Square Mall in Green Bay at 7:00 a.am. and the Yonkers at the Fox Valley Mall in Appleton at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, email rsvp@cleanwisconsin.org with your name, address and phone number or call 608-251-7020 ext. 25.
Feb 9, 2010 (54 minutes ago)
Fuel cells can be used in various applications such as spacecraft, remote weather stations, large parks, rural locations, military applications and automotive industry. Fuel cells have hydrogen as the base element for their power.
Feb 9, 2010 (1 hour ago)
Underground caverns may have never been seen as energy containers, but a Utah-based private equity group promises to use them filled with compressed air to generate electricity the classic way - by spinning a turbine.
Feb 9, 2010 (1 hour ago)
Mumbai-based firm says its technology that captures potable water from the air in Andhra Pradesh uses electricity or alternative power sources.
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
I have a story in today\'s Toronto Star about Vestas and why the world\'s largest maker of wind turbines is seriously looking at setting up shop in Ontario. Vestas already has a large manufacturing footprint in Colorado, but its interest in southern Ontario has more to do with the potential North American market for offshore wind. So why Ontario? Because offshore wind in the Great Lakes provides a huge opportunity, and Ontario happens to have the most freshwater offshore real estate, as well as a developer, Trillium Power, that is well ahead of the pack with respect to project development. Also, Ontario is the only jurisdiction in North America to have a feed-in-tariff for offshore wind — the province offers 19 cents per kilowatt-hour of offshore wind power. This makes it easier for Trillium, which has four projects totalling 3,700 megawatts in the pipeline, to pioneer offshore development in the Great Lakes. Some signs that Vestas wants to come to Ontario? Last fall Vestas Offshore opened an office in Toronto that is serving as its North American headquarters for offshore wind sales. Last week company officials flew in to tour a number of potential sites in Hamilton, Niagara,..
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta, B.C. - February 9, 2010 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal announces the formation of a new advisory board consisting of some of the leading experts in energy, water, solar, defense and financial media.
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
CEDAR PARK, Texas - February 9, 2010 - Viryd Technologies Inc. (Viryd), a wind turbine technology company dedicated to improving drivetrain technology, today announced the company has received an investment of $5M
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
BEDFORD, Mass. - February 9, 2010 - Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules and turnkey manufacturing lines
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
NEW YORK, NY - February 9, 2010 - Con Edison has filed a proposal with the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to support the development of 25 megawatts (MW) of solar energy resources in New York City
Feb 9, 2010 (7 hours ago)
WARRENVILLE, Ill. - February 9, 2010 - Navistar, Inc. (NYSE: NAV) has signed a concept development agreement with Clean Air Power Ltd. (AIM: CAP)
Feb 9, 2010 (12 hours ago)
As the world continues its quest to use less fossil fuels, the latest possible solution comes from the most unlikely of sources: the tobacco plant. This latest news comes from the University of California, Berkeley. It will be nice to see tobacco used for something other than lung cancer. This new discovery is based [...] Posted in: Biofuels , PhotoVoltaics , Solar Power
Feb 9, 2010 (12 hours ago)
Feb 9, 2010 (12 hours ago)
02/09/2010 - Petra Solar, Inc...
Feb 9, 2010 (12 hours ago)
02/09/2010 - Areva recently announced the 100% acquisition of U...
Feb 9, 2010 (17 hours ago)
France\'s Areva SA is known mostly as a designer of light-water nuclear reactors, builder of transmission and distribution systems, and a miner of uranium, so the announcement today that it has purchased 100 per cent of concentrated solar power company Ausra Inc. came as a surprise. Ausra, based in Mountain View, Calif., was founded by Canadian inventor Dr David Mills . Mills developed the underlying technology as a student and professor in Australia, but located the company in Silicon Valley as part of a major venture capital infusion from Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mills is currently the company\'s chief scientific officer. Areva said today that the acquisition marks its entry into the solar thermal power market, where it intends to be the leader. The market itself is expected to grow 20 per cent annually over the next decade. This is just the latest in a string of acquisitions and deals aimed at broadening Areva\'s portfolio of renewable energy products and services. The company has been pushing heavily into biomass power and has been building biomass/biogas plants in the U.S., Brazil, India, Thailand and other countries. It is dabbling in hydrogen produ..
Feb 9, 2010 (20 hours ago)
Clean energy is one of the top topics in the world these days, in presidential speeches, economic growth plans and projections, international competition and cooperation, and even in Hollywood. We have seen rapid growth in wind power, rooftop solar, innovative financing, and much more recently. Here is my list of the Top 10 “Clean Energy” Topics (some aren\'t what I would consider the cleanest ) to keep an eye on. 1. International Clean Energy Race The “international clean energy race” may well determine who will lead the world economy in the future — “the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy” ( Obama , State of the Union 2010). China is about to make the largest solar and wind projects in the world look like little LEGO projects and it seems like it is #1 or fast-approaching #1 right now. “Every day we wait in this nation China is going to eat our lunch. The Chinese don’t need 60 votes. I guess they just need 1 guy’s vote over there – and that guy’s voted” ( Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to 200 business leaders , 2010); “China now leads world in clean tech. Time for a Sputnik program to recla..
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
The interesting fact is that the material resembles a fabric, and can be shaped into different objects, so maybe in the future mobile phone users won\'t have to have a battery in their cellphone, just because its case will do the job.
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
I\'ve picked up on a couple of mentions lately of Senators on both sides of the aisle starting to work on revenue-neutral alternatives to the Waxman-Markey type of cap and trade climate legislation that has been the focus of attention ever since Obama came into office. There\'s been talk of the GOP staff on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reporting to Sen. Murkowski of Alaska, possibly working on a revenue-neutral carbon tax proposal. And Cantwell and Collins are proposing a \"cap and dividend\" plan , also to be revenue-neutral. Gee, sounds familiar . Frustratingly, I could probably have just cut-and-pasted my entire May 2009 column on this topic into a new post with no changes, and none of you would have realized it. Because that\'s how little things have moved forward over the past nine months. Hopefully by now, however, it\'s becoming more clear to politicians that any climate change legislation, if it\'s to have a chance of passage at all, must be perceived as something other than just another tax-and-spend proposal. It has to be simple, and it should be tanglibly revenue-neutral. Leaders of the U.S. cleantech industry always claim they need a national price ..
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
From an article by Richard Ryman in the Green Bay Press Gazette: NEW DENMARK — It looks like a big cement box and in operation resembles a cow\'s stomach, but a commercial anaerobic biodigester under construction just southeast of Denmark will fill a lot of roles. NEW Organic Digestion, owned by American Foods Group and the people who own Northern Concrete, is building the facility primarily to dispose of byproducts from American Foods\' operations in Green Bay. The project will cost between $5 million and $6 million, said co-owner Rob Larsen. The biodigester will hold a little more than 2 million gallons working its way through the tank on a 22-day cycle. Larsen said they will be able to add 60 to 100 tons to the process daily. They expect to put it into service in March. The process will result in several products, including methane gas, electricity, heat and waste solids that can be used for cattle bedding or other purposes. Larsen said his family, dad John Larsen in particular, have been land-applying paunch manure for American Foods for years. Paunch manure is partially digested food, usually consumed the same day the cow is slaughtered. The waste includes wash water and unused..
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
-The population crash -Getting connected: Europe's green energy 'supergrid' -Pro-Moscow Yanukovych 'to win Ukraine election' read more
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
Salicornia is an alga that grows in salty waters and whose seeds can produce biofuels abundantly. Masdar Institute researchers, along with several companies like Boeing, Etihad Airways, and UOP Honeywell devised a method of growing salicornia for getting biofuels out of it and keeping the CO2 balance in proper equilibrium.
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
-What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda? -Soaring cost of healthcare sets a record -America Is Not Yet Lost -Seven States of Energy Debt read more
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
I am freshly arrived back on the U.S. mainland, with a couple of stops before I head back to Hawaii. I have been reading about energy developments during my travels, and finally wrote something on the flight from Europe yesterday. What has prompted me to write was a report that was recently issued by The President\'s Biofuels Interagency Working Group: Growing America’s Fuel As I read through this report on the status of advanced biofuels, I couldn’t help but think that this appeared to have been written by an optimistic cheerleader rather than by someone conducting a sober assessment of the situation. It contains very little of \"Here is why we have fallen more than 90% short of our targets.\" Bear in mind that the advanced biofuel mandate for 2010 was 100 million gallons. The report admits that the shortfall will almost certain exceed 90% (as I have been saying it would for at least a couple of years). Where the report does get into specifics, it makes excuses, suggesting that the technologies themselves aren\'t the problem, lack of funding is. To that I say that I can make all sorts of things work \"commercially\" if I am willing to throw enough money at them. But they will only conti..
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
Are current corporate-dominated international institutions inadequate to the task of meeting the multiple planetary survival challenges they themselves have helped create?...Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org), talks about the factors contributing to the stalemate in the Copenhagen climate summit, the other 'game ending' challenges confronting the current economic system, and the bottom-up steps necessary to move to a post-carbon economy. read more
Feb 8, 2010 (1 day ago)
Wind power has recently received a nice boost as one of the hottest forms of energy on the market. When comparing the recent market growth against all forms of energy, both renawables and non-renewables, wind turbines seem to be jumping to the head of the pack. While it still has a way to go [...] Posted in: Inventions , Wind Power , Wind Turbines
Feb 8, 2010 (2 days ago)
02/08/2010 - Clean Edge and NASDAQ\'s three benchmark clean-tech stock indexes each ended last week down with the NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index (CELS) losing 0...
Feb 7, 2010 (3 days ago)
The world\'s first electric Pick-up, EMC (Electric Motor Cars), built on a Dacia Logan platform, brought to the U.S. by Envision Motor Co., has been presented by Des Moines Motors, an ex-Chrysler dealer.
Feb 6, 2010 (3 days ago)
In 24 states; the Renewable Energy Standard (RES) has driven what clean new energy the US has. In the absence of such legislation The Invisible Hand has tended to find that utilities should just continue to source their electricity from traditional sources, with the result that states that do not have an RES have the unhealthiest electricity in the nation. Arizona was one of the healthy energy states, with a requirement for 15% renewable energy by 2025. But now a Republican state representative in the Arizona state legislature is challenging the right of the Arizona Corporation Commission to set a requirement that utilities add more renewable energy, with a bill that would strip them of the responsibility. The ACC passed its RES for Arizona in 2006, setting a target for utilities to get 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. In Arizona, as in most states, the electric utilities have long been regulated at the state level by public commissions that are semi-governmental bodies; originally set up to oversee the public interest in common goods like water and electricity, back in the days when the legislature was more able to protect the American people from the ro..
Feb 6, 2010 (3 days ago)
By Ishan Nath Cross-posted from LeadEnergy.org A special three-part series in last week\'s San Jose Mercury News, entitled \"The Cleantech Revolution,\" highlighted the enormous economic opportunity in the clean-tech sector and warned that the U.S. is quickly falling behind while Asia seeks to gain global market dominance. In its analysis of the clean technology market, the Mercury \'s rhetoric is grand and its data convincing. The first part of the series begins: “Cleantech is poised to be the valley\'s third great wave of innovation — not just the next big thing, but perhaps the biggest thing ever. Confronting the peril of greenhouse gases and climate change happens to be a multi-trillion-dollar business opportunity.” The numbers provided support this claim: U.S. yearly utility bills exceed $1 trillion annually and the global energy and transportation market is estimated at $7 trillion. The wind and solar industries -- valued at $80 billion in 2008 -- are projected to triple in 10 years and employ 2.6 million people. Smart-grid technology, according to Morgan Stanley, will grow to $100 billion by 2030 and Cisco Systems believes smart-grid communications infrastructure could be worth ..