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Researchers at the University of Arkansas, and Arkansas State, have been developing solar cells that use alternatives to silicone for space applications. Projected efficiencies are over 40%. New funding has just been announced.
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Following up on our two posts this week on the 2011 Solar Census conducted by The Solar Foundation, The Solar Foundation sent along the following fun graphic. Thought it was cool enough to share as a weekend quickie 
The US Dept. of Energy (DOE) issued partial loan guarantees for renewable energy projects in three states totaling as much as $624 million Friday. Energy Secretary Chu announced partial loan guarantees of $168.9 million for Granite Reliable Power’s 99-megawatt (MW) wind farm, New Hampshire’s largest; up to $350 million for Ormat Nevada’s 113MW geothermal power plants; and $105 million for POET’s ‘first-of-its-kind’ cellulosic ethanol bio-refinery in Iowa.
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The EPA announced that 25% of all single family homes in the United States are energy star certified.
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The company is called Cargohopper and it has provided a very appealing solution for a Dutch city suffering traffic congestion caused from too many delivery vehicles in too dense a space.
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Duke Energy Renewables is going to construct its fifth wind farm in Texas, and it is to be 202 MW.
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MIT researchers have found a way to utilize charcoal to store hydrogen at a low pressure and at room temperature.
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On September 22, The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) chaired yet another Republican hearing against the president’s climate change policy in the new GOP-held House. In the hearing, titled “How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda Is Killing Jobs” Issa claimed that President Obama is destroying jobs by conducting a “systematic war” against fossil energy by aggressively pushing clean energy.
To stop climate change, obviously it is necessary to switch to a clean energy economy, and so government policy that aggressively pushes a clean energy economy is the appropriate response.
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