Archive for the ‘Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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Optimal Biomass on Left = Blue, Red
Load centers = Green
Biomass technology converts bio-based feedstocks like wood, agricultural waste, and yard waste through combustion into electricity. Biomass fuel is either directly combusted in a boiler, or gasified and then combusted, or turned into a liquid fuel that can be combusted. The ...
Posted in Agriculture, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Graphic, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines, biomass, ethanol, geothermal, green technology, map | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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Map of U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Will Coal Replace Oil in the New Energy Economy?", url: "http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/491/will-coal-replace-oil-in-the-new-energy-economy/" });
Posted in Climate Change, Graphic, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, map | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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2001SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "NASA Snapshots of World Solar Irradiance", url: "http://cleantechlawandbusiness.com/cleanbeta/index.php/441/nasa-snapshots-of-world-solar-irradiance/" });
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability, Graphic, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends, Solar Energy, carbon emissions | No Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
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The sun is the oldest cook in the book -- pun fully intended. Food cooked in solar ovens retains moisture and nutrients when cooked slowly. Unlike other heat sources, it is fairly difficult to burn food in solar ovens. There are all kinds of solar ovens and solar cooker designs, ...
Posted in Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Solar Energy | 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 »
