Hydrogen fuel cell storage for Germany wind power

Storing excess energy from wind is always a good idea. A German city plans to do so with ultra-clean fuel cells.

Worldwide protests. October 15.

Called by Global Change. Protests are being organized in 18 countries so far.

First Solar of Arizona may be green energy powerhouse, but challenges lie ahead

First Solar, based in Tempe AZ, is the world’s biggest manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic solar panels. They use cadmium telluride rather than silicon in creating the panels. This has given them a price advantage over their fast-gaining Chinese competitors, and while such a method is less efficient in creating energy, it can also do [...]

EU considering 50% haircut on Greece bonds

The Greek bond losses may be accompanied by a pledge to rule out debt restructurings in other countries that received bailouts, such as Portugal, to persuade investors that Europe has mastered the crisis.

The pledge is whistling in the dark gibberish. Portugal debt will not magically improve because the banksters take a haircut on Greece [...]

Let the festivities begin

“Gunwalking” subpoena for AG Holder imminent

2,000 weapons plus grenades were allowed to pass to drug cartels from the US while the ATF “monitored” them. Republicans in Congress want to know how this obscenity happened.

Using the Polizeros Banana Republic Rule, consider what would your response be if this had happened in a banana republic? [...]

Lightsquared: FCC to rule by year end

Dailywireless has a detailed, sometimes technical explantion of Lightsquared’s dilemma. The politically connected company wants to install terrestrial wireless. However many think it might inferere with GPS and that the Democratic Party insiders and big hitter contributors involved with the company make the whole thing as politically stinky as Solyndra.

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The tragedy of inbred cats

Hybrid wind-solar

This is the first large-scale system of its kind. Treehugger has more.

Fitch smacks the gangster banks

Fitch downgrades UBS, many others, puts Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman, BNP, Deutsche Bank, SocGen and others on Watch Negative

This will have massive effects over the coming months. The game is up for the the TBTF banks who have been propped up by captured governments (like ours) and allowed to use the [...]

We have less than a week to make history: Mark Miller CAN become MA’s first ever Green state representative!

Last year, Mark Miller ran for state representative with the Green Party in Massachusetts.  In a two way race with a Democrat, he got 45% of the vote.  Now, after that same Democrat got appointed to another job, he’s running again.  The election is October 18, and Mark has already received the endorsement (and with [...]