First Solar joins Desertec Initiative, a gigantic solar and wind power project in the Sahara to power Africa and Europe.
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Solar water heaters.
Microbes that eat pollution.
Energy-generating self-heating roadway.
Posts Tagged ‘cleantech’
Cleantech and renewable energy links
Obama accomplishments in cleantech and the environment
I squawk about Obama being way too cosy with the bankster, and he is. But – credit where credit is due – he’s been excellent on green issues.
Treehugger details 11 reasons why, among them
Rollback of Bush rules
The stimulus bill invests in clean energy
Moves EPA to regulate greenhouse gases
Sets a national auto emission standard
These are major [...]
Cleantech news
MIT announces new way to trap waste heat and convert it to energy
It could even work on cell phones and laptops as well as in much larger engines and devices
Researchers develop machine to recycle carbon dioxide into fuel
This could be a welcome replacement for sequestration of CO2
Is an electric Rolls Royce coming soon?
Radar absorbing turbines [...]
Obama orders Smart Energy for federal government
Among the welcome requirements for federal agencies and buildings.
30% reduction in vehicle fleet petroleum use by 2020
26% improvement in water efficiency by 2020
50% recycling and waste diversion by 2015
95% of all applicable contracts will meet sustainability requirements
Implementation of the 2030 net-zero-energy building requirement
What’s more, the agencies have just 90 days to present their plans for [...]
Ford plant to be converted into renewable energy park
An idled Ford plant in Michigan will become a manufacturing plant for solar and wind as well as for cleantech research and training.
When completed it could employ 4,000 workers, nearly as many as the plant employed at its peak, in an area desperate for new jobs. This is a perfect example of how cleantech can [...]
Obama announces $2.4 billion in battery grants
The money will be spent for R&R on advanced battery design, electric vehicle infrastructure, and college education programs.
Some are wondering why Detroit gets a healthy share of the grant money. Um, because they want to make EVs and could sure use a financial jump start or two? The Chevy Volt could be a big beneficiary [...]
Cleantech links
Florida researchers want to use underwater Gulf Stream to create electricity and hydrogen.
Waste shrimp shells contain powerful catalyst for creating biodiesel.
Small scale wind inefficient compared to small solar.
Floating apartment complex in Holland more energy efficient too.
Huge corporations and cleantech
Triple Pundit
Many people have the misconception that the renewable energy field is comprised largely of little start-ups. In reality, many of the heavy hitters in the industry are large, established companies, such as General Electric, Google, and Waste Management.
Indeed. GE is huge in wind power, Google is investing heavily in renewables, and Waste Management [...]
Greentech creates jobs and saves energy
Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the Council on Environmental Quality, uses a green roof installation as an example of how greentech will also create jobs as well as lower costs and save energy.
More.
Cleantech could be biggest VC sector in five years
Venture capital investing in cleantech continues to increase, even in a declining economy. Boom times are coming.
“This is an area that’s ripe for investment — we’re going to be seeing the next eBay, the next Google coming out of the cleantech sector,” says Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association.
Like Google, they will [...]
Inventor of Ethernet calls for creation of Enternet
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, is calling for a national energy network modeled after the Internet. Make it smart, resilient, with cheap, plentiful power, he says.
Earth2tech summarizes his main points, which include
“It’s easier to teach energy to the entrepreneurs than to teach entrepreneurship to the energy industry,” so take advantage of Silicon Valley-like high tech [...]
The Sixth Revolution: The Coming of Cleantech
Beacon Power energy storing flywheel
That’s what Merrill Lynch calls it in an investor’s advisory (PDF), prompting Alternative Energy Stocks to comment that our current times bears resemblance to the opening of Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
It’s official! Cleantech, the sixth industrial revolution, [...]
Stimulus bill greatly boosts cleantech
TriplePundit details the just-passed stimulus bill, which has $37.5 billion for cleantech and renewable energy, including $17 billion for high speed rail, as well as a multitude of tax credits.
Perhaps what’s most exciting about this bill isn’t the spending included, but the spending it will incite.
Existing tax credits for cleantech have been extended, limits have [...]
Abu Dhabi way ahead of US on cleantech
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has been criss-crossing the world in support of Abu Dhabi’s $15 billion Masdar Initiative, which aims to build a zero-carbon, zero-waste city with a population of 50,000 in hopes it can “re-engineer the way cities are built.”
Meanwhile, in that apparent cleantech backwater called the United States, reactionary forces continue their [...]
