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SOURCE: semiconductor.net
“A new anti reflective coating has overcome two major hurdles facing solar energy – boosting the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allowing those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle. The discovery by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute brings the industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost effective [...]
SOURCE: Wired
“Green technology was hot in 2008. Barack Obama won the presidential election promising green jobs to Rust Belt workers. Investors poured $5 billion into the sector just through the first nine months of the year. And even Texas oilmen like T. Boone Pickens started pushing alternative energy as a replacement for fossil fuels like [...]
SOURCE: telegraph.co.uk
It is science’s star experiment: an attempt to create an artificial sun on earth — and provide an answer to the world’s impending energy shortage.
“While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing [...]
SOURCE: WSJ
“There isn’t much doubt that Congress and incoming President Barack Obama will try to impose some kind of limits on carbon emissions. The Republicans, girding in opposition, are denouncing global warming as a fraud, and claiming that either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system will impose an unacceptable burden on the economy.
Their strategy of [...]
SOURCE: Washington Post
“California Democrats will assume pivotal roles in the new Congress and White House, giving the state an outsize influence over federal policy and increasing the likelihood that its culture of activist regulation will be imported to Washington.
In Congress, Democrats from the Golden State are in key positions to write laws to mitigate global [...]
SOURCE: myrtlebeachonline.com
“The ethereal orange glow of plasma, captured inside a westside industrial park, casts new light on the energy future of Charlotte, N.C.
The startup company Sencera uses the electrically charged gas to make solar panels. It’s among the renewable-energy firms reaching for a toehold in a region dominated by coal and nuclear power.
Economic developers, sniffing [...]
SOURCE: Bloomberg
“Japan stocks rose, capping a third weekly gain, as the government’s pledge for subsidies lifted solar power-related manufacturers, while companies including Nitto Boseki Co. announced share buybacks…”
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SOURCE: Reuters
“Insisting on the need to develop new forms of energy, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose as his energy secretary a Nobel physics laureate who is a major promoter of alternative fuels.
Obama named Steven Chu, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics who was an early advocate for finding scientific solutions [...]
SOURCE: Washington Post
“In one of the first internal struggles of the incoming Obama administration, environmentalists and smart-growth advocates are trying to shift the priorities of the economic stimulus plan that will be introduced in Congress next month away from allocating tens of billions of dollars to highways, bridges and other traditional infrastructure spending to more [...]
SOURCE: ens-newswire.com
“The Iowa State Office of Energy Independence today released its 2008 Plan for Energy Independence, with recommendations on best practices for efficiency and energy production statewide.
A newly formed state agency, the Office of Energy Independence issued its first annual energy plan in the fall of 2007. Since then, the OEI has received more than [...]