The Seawater Greenhouse provides a low-cost solution by enabling year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. Seawater is evaporated at the front of the [...]
Eighteen cities and towns in Massachusetts have been designated Green Communities, making them eligible for over $3.6 million in grants for local renewable power and energy-efficiency projects that will advance both municipal and state clean energy goals. Boston, Dedham, Easton, Gardner, Gloucester, Harvard, Hatfield, Marlborough, Medway, Milton, Newburyport, New Salem, Scituate, Swampscott, Watertown, Wayland, Williamstown [...]
Siemens CEO Peter Löscher: “We’re on the threshold of a new electric age†For the 15th time, Siemens – together with Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany – is hosting a special technology conference, the Erlanger Technikgespräch, in the Siemens medicare building in Erlangen, Germany. Climate change, diminishing natural resources, increasing urbanization, rising prosperity [...]
The Energy Road Ahead: Cooperation or Confrontation? After an election day that replaced many moderate legislators with conservatives, it’s unclear whether President Obama’s call for cooperation with Republicans will occur over energy policy. Cooperation or Confrontation on Clean Energy? A Proposed Agenda for the New Congress and the President by Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss [...]
SolFocus CPV Solar Systems Installed at U.S.-Mexico Border Region The new solar power project with the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) demonstrates the promise of clean power, economic growth and bilateral partnership. SolFocus has installed a 16.8 kilowatt (Kw) installation of high-concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems at the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) BECC offices in [...]
Electricity and hot water for remote, off the grid health clinics and schools is the focus of the “Small Scale Solar Organic Rankine Cycle for Rural Cogeneration” project that is the winner of the 2010 ConocoPhillips, Penn State Energy Prize. The ConocoPhillips Energy Prize recognizes new ideas and original, feasible solutions in three areas that [...]
The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming decades, according to results of a new study by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Aiguo Dai. The detailed analysis concludes that warming temperatures associated with climate change will likely create increasingly dry conditions [...]
Chromasun and SunWater Solar Partner to Install California’s First MCT Solar Cooling Project at Santa Clara University’s 2007 Solar Decathlon House Collaboration Results in Unique Solar Air Conditioning Demonstration in the United States SAN JOSE, CA– Industrial rooftop solar solutions company Chromasun today announced that it has partnered with SunWater Solar, a solar thermal technology [...]
AwardsWashington, D.C., U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin announced the awarding of $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to the FutureGen Alliance, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox, and Air Liquide Process & Costruction, Inc. to build FutureGen 2.0, a clean coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO2) storage network. The [...]
The partner jurisdictions of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) have released a comprehensive strategy designed to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, stimulate development of clean energy technologies, create green jobs, increase energy security and independence and protect public health. “The Design for the WCI Regional Program” is the culmination of two years of work [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the state of Indiana announced that Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $950,000 and install and upgrade pollution control technology at its two coal-fired power plants in Indiana to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. The [...]
This country spends, in a typical year, $350 billion importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries. While this is no doubt good news for the Saudi royal family, one of the richest in the world, it is bad news for the average American. The vast majority of the American people understand that now [...]
Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has signed into law three bills that were put forth by his Administration to advance the development of the clean energy economy. The bills expand the consumer appliances for which the Department of State has the authority to set energy efficiency standards; allow natural gas utilities to [...]
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