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 »
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 »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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Map of Promising Sites for Wind Power
The Bureau of Land Management eclipsed the promise of solar energy in the United States yesterday. The tragic fate of the U.S. wind power industry in the 1980s illustrates how the BLM's decision will impact the still embryonic U.S. solar energy industry.
U.S. Windpower, the ...
Posted in Clean Tech Lifecycles, Concentrated-Solar, Industry News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research Trends, Solar Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Venture Capital, map | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Roughly half of the atmosphere's moisture lies within about 1.84 km of the earth's surface, and only a minute fraction of the total occurs above the tropopause. This image measures the concentration of water vapor and other chemicals in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere. It was created on Sept. 24, ...
Posted in Climate Change, Graphic, Water, carbon emissions, map | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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This composite image shows the fraction of the photosynthetically available radiation that was absorbed by land vegetation for photosynthesis in the continental United States during the period March 24-April 8, 2000. The image shows the proportion of sunlight actually absorbed by plants versus the total available energy in those wavelengths ...
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Graphic, Photovoltaics, carbon emissions, map | No Comments »
