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Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined–in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically,...
Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr . Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state’s Go here...
Image: Angewandte Chemie, Wiley Sunlight + Water = Hydrogen Gas Scientists at the University of East Anglia, led by Dr. Thomas Nann, report a breakthrough in the production of hydrogen from water using the energy of sunlight. Amidst all the hype about...
Zombie attack survival kit. Image credit: iPower Dave Levitan writing for SolveClimate has published an excellent survey of what the future may hold for the ‘ More than 60 proposed US nuclear projects, scrapped in the 1970s and early 1980s .’...
Installing earth tubes at Aldo Leopold Center. Photo: from Renew magazine Dumb Roofs Renew magazine for Jan – Mar covers a lot of ground in its 106 pages on “technology for a sustainable future.” But for me the stand-out article covers...
Image credit: Solar One If you are anything like me, you can be supportive of a particular piece of legislation. But that support doesn’t always turn into action. From clean energy legislation to local feed-in tariffs , there is plenty that law...
Photo: Public domain Get Ready for Lots of Acronyms At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (ARPA-E means Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), the U.S. secretary of energy Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funds for clean tech...
Image: StreetFilms Stress-Free Green Commuting We write a lot about how to reduce the impact of transportation and make our society less car-centric . Well, here’s a good example: Seattle’s relatively new Link light-rail. It currently has...
photo: John Schanlaub via flickr. A new analysis of the United States’ wind power potential for the lower 48 states has been released by AWS Truewind and shows that increases turbine height mean the nation gains an additional 2,500 gigawatts...
