Archive for the ‘Environmental Finance’ Category
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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A team of Chinese researchers have reached a new record of 8.2% light conversion efficiency in solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cells, according to a paper that appeared online today in the journal Nature Materials.
Dye-sensitized solar cell technology is a promising alternative to expensive silicon solar cells. The dye-sensitized cells mimic natural ...
Posted in China, Clean Tech Lifecycles, Environmental Finance, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Research Trends, Solar Energy, green technology | No Comments »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management's decision to suspend U.S. solar energy projects until it completes an environmental review will make it impossible to transmit solar energy from power plants to end users in the southwest. The maps below show BLM owned land in the southwestern United States with validated solar-energy ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Environmental Finance, Environmental Sustainability, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, green technology, map | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management said it will suspend all new solar energy projects on federal land for the next two years until it completes an environmental impact review. As discussed briefly in the preceding post, the BLM holds the country's most valuable sites in terms of solar energy ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Environmental Finance, Graphic, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, green technology, map | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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ZigBee is a global architecture that creates wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced public availability of its ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ZigBee Smart Energy provides utilities and technology suppliers an easy-to-use wireless standard for developing products that improve energy management and ...
Posted in Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Environmental Finance, Environmental Sustainability | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Clean energy technology needs to advance by an order of magnitude for the United States to meet its so-called 25 x '25 goal of producing 25% of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation released today.
The ...
Posted in Advanced Biofuels, Agriculture, Clean Tech Lifecycles, Environmental Finance, Industry News, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research Trends, Solar Energy, biomass, carbon emissions | No Comments »
