Sunday, November 9th, 2008
New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, released the nation's first code of ethics for wind-energy companies last week. The code is an effort to resolve an investigation AG Cuomo began in July related to alleged improprieties in the actions of two wind-power companies in soliciting local support for large scale ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Venture capital firms invested a record $1.6 billion in Q3 2008, up 55% from the previous quarter, in U.S. cleantech companies, according to a new analysis by Ernst & Young. A total of $3.3 billion was invested in the first three quarters of 2008, surpassing the figure for the same ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Quieter than a whisper, the SWIFT Wind Turbine, the first rooftop wind turbine installed in the United States, was pioneered by Cascade Engineering. The first rooftop installation went live early today in Muskegon, Mich., providing businesses and homeowners in windy environments an effective solution to lower energy bills and reduce ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
There is only one thing more frightening than the looming prospect of a deep global recession. A boom.
Posted in HydroPower, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Photovoltaics, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Solar-Energy, Solar-Thermal, Sustainability, Venture Capital, materials | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion, a new research program at the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, has invested in a dozen next-generation solar energy research project.
The Center concentrates on ways to directly convert the sun's energy to clean, low-cost electricity and fuels, a research area called Solar Photoconversion. The ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The search for space-based solar power has advanced because of a recent technological breakthrough - wireless transmission of solar energy across long distances.
The idea behind space-based solar power (SSP) is simple: Build massive collector plates in space, where the sun never sets, in constant orbit of the Earth. The ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Cape Farewell, Greenland: The Windiest Place in the World
Greenland is the world’s largest island, with an area of over 2 million square kilometers; however, much of the island is covered by an ice cap that can reach thicknesses of 3 kilometers. This photograph (taken by NASA) illustrates the southernmost tip ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Algae are tiny biological factories that use photosynthesis to transform carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy so efficiently that they can double their weight several times a day, producing oil in the process — 30 times more oil per acre than soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Like ...
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