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As California moves to implement AB32, its climate bill, one business model that looks very likely to succeed is the use of solar power to make heat for industries that need it. Solar power can replace fossil fuels used to make heat in these cases. Gypsum production (for drywall or sheet rock manufacture) is one [...]
Just when you thought you knew it all, life has a habit of throwing you a curve, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to the formation of the ocean crust. Yep, for those of us who were convinced that the earth’s crust is formed when magma forces its way up through openings at [...]
Hybrid tug boats are sort of hard to picture for me. I guess they don’t need to look much different, but, for some reason, it is hard for me to put the two together. Nonetheless, they do exist… or, at least, one hybrid electric tugboat exists, the Carolyn Dorothy tugboat. And a recent study out of [...]
Sharp, GE, Google, Boeing,… who isn’t in the clean tech game these days? Boeing (yes, the airplane company) has just announced that it “plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January,” according to Bloomberg News. Boeing’s concentrating photovoltaic cells have an efficiency of up to 39.2%, which [...]
Forget those conventional laptop batteries with their pesky limited lifespans. A new kind of lightweight, long lasting source of power for laptops and other portable devices is at hand, in the form of a fuel cell powered by methane. Generally speaking, methane is a fossil fuel (it’s a component of natural gas), but methane in [...]
We hear all the time that new environmental regulations will cause considerable job losses. This is a straight lie. We hear all the time that we can only protect the environment at the expense of the economy. This is a straight lie. A recent article by Ruth Greenspan Bell, a Senior Fellow in the Climate [...]
The World Bank has been talking more and more about focusing its support on clean energy projects, and apparently it has been putting much more into clean energy lately. “The World Bank’s lending for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects increased by 300 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2010, to a record [...]
The Fluid Dynamics Division of the American Physical Society is meeting in California this week, and the event promises a glimpse at the next generation of high-efficiency, low-noise wind turbines. Although it may seem like a case of gilding the lily – APS notes that the U.S. has been adding more wind generating capacity than [...]
