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Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology
WASHINGTON–Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues,...
Can greener gadgets save us from e-waste?
One laptop per child seems a simple slogan, chock full of benefit. What could...
Where Will the U.S. Get Its Electricity in 2034?
Cleaner coal , nuclear , solar , wind : these are some of the options for...
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Biodiesel Back in the Tax Credit Game
The U.S. Senate voted 62 to 36 Wednesday to pass a tax extension bill (H.R. 4213)...
IBM’s Building Blocks for Greener Plastic
There are ways to make greener plastic besides making it from corn. On Tuesday, IBM’s...
Oil and Biofuels Interests Square Off Over Report
A recent report in preparation for the 12th International Energy Forum’s ministerial,...
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LG Chem to Build $303M Volt Battery Plant in Holland, Mich.
Regardless of all the possible benefits of having a battery manufacturing industry in the U.S. for plug-in vehicles, building out that fledgling industry won’t come cheap. This morning an announcement from LG Chem — the Korean electronics behemoth whose U.S. subsidiary Compact Power will supply lithium-ion cells for General Motors’... [Read more of this review]
Few Utilities Power Ahead with Renewables
As surely as last year’s Paris fashions make their way west to New York, U.S. utilities are beginning to embrace European-style programs like feed-in tariffs and green power premiums. [Read more of this review] More on this topic (What's this?) Utilities Poised to Become Market Leaders (AB... [Read more of this review]
Ener1 Sees “A Lot to Prove in 2010,” Banking on Loan
The “best year yet” — that’s how Ener1 CEO Charles Gasseinheimer described how his company fared in 2009 during a call with shareholders this afternoon following the release of Ener1’s latest financial results. Competitor A123Systems offered a similar take on its 2009 earnings earlier this week. But like A123, Ener1 (which... [Read more of this review]
Utilities Not Ready for Coming Customer Engagement from Smart Grid
If the latest consumer backlash over smart meters in Texas wasn’t enough of an indicator that utilities are facing a communication problem around the smart grid, here’s another: a report from research firm IDC Energy Insights, and sponsored by telecom firm Telus, finds that utilities “have not thought through the implications of new... [Read more of this review]
Daily Sprout
Feed-in Tariff on the Way on SoCal: The country’s largest municipal utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, “is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use,” with proceeds earmarked for renewable energy programs including a feed-in tariff for solar power. — New York Times [Read more of... [Read more of this review]
Biodiesel Back in the Tax Credit Game
The U.S. Senate voted 62 to 36 Wednesday to pass a tax extension bill (H.R. 4213) that includes a key $1 biodiesel tax credit. [Read more of this review] Read More →
How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market
Not too long ago, Toyota reigned as the seemingly untouchable hybrid leader. That dominance — in terms of both market share (50 percent of hybrids sold in the U.S.) and mindshare (no alt-fuel vehicle on the market is better known or more widely recognized than the Toyota Prius) — means that as the Prius image takes a beating, other models... [Read more of this review]
The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol’s Hidden Costs
Despite strong evidence that growing food crops to produce ethanol is harmful to the environment and the world’s poor, the Obama administration is backing subsidies and programs that will ensure that half of the U.S.’s corn crop will soon go to biofuel production. It’s time to recognize that biofuels are anything but green. [Read more of this... [Read more of this review]
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Sunshine is free, so can photovoltaics be cheap?
Here’s how to make a solar cell from silicon : take one solid block of doped silicon, saw it into thin wafers, layer said semiconductors beneath a panel of transparent glass, connect them to a metal electrode that can channel away the electrons knocked loose by incoming photons and turn it into a photovoltaic device. That process has at least... [Read more of this review]
Abound Solar Keeps It In-House
Mark Chen is the director of marketing at Abound Solar, a Colorado-based manufacturer of thin-film cadmium telluride solar modules. Cleantechies sat him on the hot seat for three questions: [Read more of this review] Read More →
Shift happens: Will artificial photosynthesis power the world?
One drinking- water bottle could provide enough energy for an entire household in the developing world if Dan Nocera has his way. A chemist from M.I.T. and founder of the company Sun Catalytix, Nocera has developed a cobalt-based catalyst that allows him to store energy the same way plants do: by splitting water. [More] Read More →
Chicago Solar Energy
Chicago’s New Distributed Solar Energy Pilot Project Creating a revolution in the way energy is produced and shared, distributed solar energy is one of the top clean energy topics of the day. Chicago utility company ComEd (an arm of the energy giant Exelon Corporation) has a new pilot project in this field that will outfit 100 Chicago-area homes with... [Read more of this review]
World’s Mightiest Solar Boat Unveiled
Nearly 500 years after Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the globe using nothing but renewable power, Swiss engineer Raphael Domjan and French sailor Gerard D’Abouville are preparing to repeat Elcano’s journey in an all-electric boat powered by the energy gathered by 470 square meters of solar panels.... [Read more of this review]
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