Solar Impulse Lands In DC, Solar Impulse Founders Presented Top Innovation SEIA Award

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Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, the founders of Solar Impulse have successfully arrived in our nation’s capital with their solar-powered airplane. The welcoming community waiting on the tarmac when they landed gave them a flag. Bertrand and André have given a Clean Generation flag to each community in which they landed that was a scheduled stopover. This banner from the Washington DC community was a lovely reciprocal greeting. Today, the two founders of this highly successful and well received solar aircraft were presented the … Read More

3 GW Of New Solar Photovoltaic Plants Being Developed In China By Yingli

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Editor’s Note: Yes, 3 GW (3,000 MW)! Yingli has apparently landed some huge solar power projects in China. Here are a few more details from this Solar Love repost: 3 GW of new solar photovoltaic power plants are now in the works in the Yunnan province of Southern China — thanks to an agreement between solar manufacturing giant Yingli, the Qujing city government, and the Honghe state government. During the recent announcement of the project, … Read More

Zero MMX Builds Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces

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Zero Motorcycles has developed a stealth motorcycle for the US Special Forces, touting its silence, acceleration, swappable battery, minimal heat signature, and ability to operate in deep water. Here are some of the vehicle’s key features: Specialized military dash for quick and centralized mainline controls. Keyless ignition engaged with dash toggle for quicker departure. Modular and quick-swappable power packs. Wet operational abilities in up to one meter submersion. Switchable headlight for night-time stealth. Integrated wiring … Read More

The Breakthrough Institute – Why The Hot Air?

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I’ve recently stumbled upon a number of articles by the Breakthrough Institute (BTI) that aimed at discrediting renewable energy on the one hand and on the other preaching about nuclear energy as the solution for the global energy crisis of the 21st century. With their hearts and minds pre-set on pushing their narrative, that some kind of a nuclear salvation is being held back by leftish environmentalists (sinister!), the so called German “Energiewende” (Energy Transition) has … Read More

NZ Network Offers Solar Storage Lease Trial

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This article first published on RenewEconomy Sadly, this is not a story you will likely read about an Australian electricity network provider – given the pushback from their mostly state-government owners on the proliferation of rooftop solar PV. But, hopefully, it won’t be too far away. A New Zealand electricity network operator, Vector, is offering a trial run of leases to its customers to install rooftop solar and battery storage for around the same cost … Read More

NREL Releases Cost of Renewable Energy Spreadsheet Tool

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The following was first published on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory website The Cost of Renewable Energy Spreadsheet Tool (CREST) is an economic cash flow model designed to allow policymakers, regulators, and the renewable energy community to assess project economics, design cost-based incentives (e.g., feed-in tariffs), and evaluate the impact of various state and federal support structures. CREST is a suite of four analytic tools, for solar (photovoltaic and solar thermal), wind, geothermal, and anaerobic … Read More

Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2012

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Global carbon emissions reached a new high in 2012, rising by 1.4% to 31.6 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency. The large rise in emissions was led by China, which released 300 million more tons in 2012 than it did in 2011. As well as leading the pack with regards to increased rates of emissions, China was also the leader with regards to total emissions. It’s worth noting, though, that the rise was … Read More

What Green Web Hosting Offers To Online Business Owners

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Editor’s note: This is a good way for anyone with a website (who doesn’t have one these days?) to green her or his business. It’s something I’ve incorporated on my own sites, and something we are pursuing here at Important Media. There are several online business owners who wonder if they can do anything besides their offline environmental friendly activities to reduce their carbon footprint. If you’re one of them and have been looking for ways … Read More

World Wind Turbines To Cross 300,000 Megawatt Mark

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Wind turbines are here to stay. They are increasing in numbers every day, and industry figures show that the amount of energy they are able to generate has reached tremendous levels. The 19th century belonged to coal, the 20th to oil, and the 21st century belongs to clean energy, with wind energy being one of the foundations of that. “This is the big one, the centerpiece, the dominant source of energy in the new economy is … Read More

Unzip A Carbon Nanotube, Find A Graphene Ribbon, Create A “Flexible” Li-Ion Battery

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Rice researchers improve li-ion batteries with graphene nanoribbons

In what sounds like a solution in search of a problem, a few years ago researchers at Rice University figured out a way to create graphene ribbons by “unzipping” carbon nanotubes. Well, now it looks like a problem has been found, and it’s a big one with huge implications for the solar and wind power markets, to say nothing of electric vehicles and portable electronics. In the latest twist, the Rice team has applied carbon … Read More