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SOURCE: iht.com
By Ted Plafker
BEIJING: China gets nearly 70 percent of its energy from coal, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, and more than 23 percent from oil and natural gas. Nuclear and renewables furnish 7 percent: somewhere in there is solar.
Yet this year the Hurun Report, a ranking of the 1,000 wealthiest individuals in China, [...]
SOURCE: eponline.com
October 29, 2008
The Network for New Energy Choices has issued its 2008 report cards grading state policies that allow farmers, homeowners, ranchers, and small business owners who generate renewable energy to connect to the grid and receive credit for the electricity they produce.
This year’s “Freeing the Grid” report has a few bright spots: Americans’ [...]
SOURCE: Reuters
*Alternative energy cos need credit to fund growth
*Solar panel prices could fall faster than expected
*Downturn could determine solar winners and losers
By Nichola Groom – Analysis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Going green” doesn’t have quite the cachet it used to, at least on Wall Street.
Investors in renewable energy stocks have seen their sector hit hard in [...]
SOURCE: triplepundit.com
The Europeans are serious about nanotechnology to wean countries off using fossil fuels in the next century. There´s considerable interest in setting up a solar grid that is global because the sun consistently shines on some part of the planet. The technologies European scientists say are going to dominate the sustainable energy sector include [...]
SOURCE: cleantechnica.com
Written by Andrew Williams
Published on October 25th, 2008
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight that could lead to ‘unlimited’ solar power.
The process, loosely based on plant photosynthesis, uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. When needed, the gases can then [...]
SOURCE: BusinessWeek
By Adam Aston
October 23, 2008, 5:00PM EST
As global financial markets melted down in October, Congress handed a gift to America’s green energy industry: It renewed and broadened a set of tax credits for wind and solar power, geothermal, tidal energy, and more. The move did little to prop up eco-energy stocks, which have followed [...]
SOURCE: LA Times
By Gale Holland
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a private-public partnership to bring solar power to 15 California State University campuses and the system’s Long Beach headquarters.
“California is going green and we are doing it first and we are doing it fast,” Schwarzenegger said this week at a news conference at Cal State Dominguez [...]
SOURCE: dailytech.com
Shane McGlaun (Blog) – October 22, 2008 12:24 PM
Project hopes to send enough solar power from space to a ground station to illuminate one light bulb
Solar power is great in that it can generate virtually free power from the energy of the sun. The catch is that existing solar power equipment isn’t particularly effective [...]
SOURCE: newsday.com
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI |Associated Press Writer
October 22, 2008
TRENTON, N.J. – Gov. Jon S. Corzine has laid out a vision for New Jersey’s energy future.
The proposal issued Wednesday includes an increasing reliance on renewable sources like wind and solar power, creating clean-energy businesses and jobs and lowering energy costs and consumption.
The state’s [...]
SOURCE: thedailygreen.com
October 20, 2008 at 9:55AM by Dan Shapley
A “new energy economy” is emerging in the United States. Now.
That’s the way Lester R. Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute and one of the most influential voices on buidling a sustainable economy, sees it. Here’s a look at the bones of his latest argument, which [...]