Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Energy efficiency has enormous promise for most developing economies. The investment yields in energy efficiency over the next two decades will generally be several times higher in the developing world, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Developing countries could invest $90 billion annually over the next 12 ...
Posted in CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, India, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability, Water, law | No Comments »
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Proposed Climate Change Legislation by Ultimate Reductions Targets
Climate change is riddled with deep uncertainty about basic questions, which results from factors such as lack of information, disagreement about what is known or even knowable, linguistic imprecision, statistical variation, measurement error, approximation and subjective judgment on the structure of the climate ...
Posted in Agriculture, Antarctica, Biofuels, Bioremediation, CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, biomass | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
If you think the mortgage-backed securities that has brought Wall Street to the brink of collapse seem a bit phony, hold on to your hat because cowboy capitalism is earning a new set of spurs in carbon trading markets.
The trouble is that nobody can say for sure what those ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Despite the sudden collapse of Wall Street, there is a least one bright spot in the U.S. economy. And it happens to be green.
The U.S. economy has created more than 750,000 green jobs—a number that is projected to grow five-fold to more than 4.2 million jobs over the next three ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Envision Solar's "Infrastructure in A Crate"
Envision Solar International announced the launch of its latest product designed to integrate clean power into buildings and communities. LifeVillage is a modular self-contained "infrastructure in a crate" that can provide critical utilities even in the most remote areas.
REC Wafer Sales Contract with Neo ...
Posted in Batteries, Carbon, China, Concentrated-Solar, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Germany, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, green-technology | No Comments »
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
One of the nation's leading clean-energy providers, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), is up to its ass in alligators for exploiting customers concerns about global warming for financial gain.
The controversy centers on FPL's so-called Sunshine Energy Program, which FPL created in 2003 to allow customers to contribute $9.75 per ...
Posted in Concentrated-Solar, Industry-News, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Solar-Thermal, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, law | No Comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
The 2017 cellulosic ethanol production potential ranges from 1.6 to 7.2 billion gallons. The growth of this capacity through 2017 is shown in the graphic above. The combination of the production subsidy plus capital cost reduction appears to be the most effective option in driving industry growth. The least effective ...
Posted in Agriculture, Biofuels, Biorefinery, China, Finance, Graphic, Green-Cars, Industry-News, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Sustainability, algae, biomass, ethanol, green-technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Ionic liquids are the key to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene)
Better crystals has enabled the emergence of new explosive materials that are safer when exposed to heat or handled roughly.
The breakthrough technology was developed by researchers the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and appears on the cover of the ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Continental Wind Partners, a major renewable power developer, and CEZ Group, the leading CE power utility, finalized the sale of two massive wind farms in Romania today -- Fantanele and Cogealac wind farms. CEZ purchased the two projects, which will together be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe ...
Posted in Finance, Hedge Funds, Industry-News, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Research, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Wind-Power, Wind-Turbines, green-technology | No Comments »
