Originally published on the American Wind Energy Association website By Michael Goggin The Western U.S. could reap huge benefits in pollution savings and reduced spending on fossil fuels by installing more wind and solar power plants, according to a comprehensive new analysis released today by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory … [continued]
Here’s some more cleantech eatin’s for your eatin’ pleasure. Enjoy! Solar Why Some Big Utilities Are Embracing Small-Scale Solar A handful of US utilities have discovered they can save money by encouraging small rooftop solar projects—the same projects utility industry leaders have insisted were too expensive and unreliable to be … [continued]
Originally published on Cost of Solar. Generally speaking, reading and debunking horrible clean energy or electric vehicle stories in the mainstream media is not something I enjoy doing. But someone has to do it, and since I’ve been studying cleantech in depth for several years now and am in the … [continued]
Originally published on Think Progress. By Katie Valentine. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions won’t just help alleviate climate change – it could also help save millions of lives each year, according to a new study. The study, published Sunday in Nature Climate Change, found up to 3 million premature deaths could be … [continued]
Foreign idea, eh? (Cleantech to help people.) In another GE video focused on solutions from the bottom up, here’s an inspiring video about 4 young teenagers who put in a ton of time to develop a technology that could help people around the world. Whether their technology is better than … [continued]
The lack of clean water is already a major crisis around the world. Here are a few facts demonstrating the crisis today: “The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.” “At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied … [continued]
This continues my monthly report of 10 of the most compelling clean energy generation, energy conservation technology, and climate change stories encountered over the last month. Over a thousand articles were reviewed across the various clean energy platforms, 30+ were found to be of particular interest and are available in … [continued]
The slow death-march of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues onwards — new reports have revealed that radiation levels over eighteen times higher than any previously reported at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant were recently registered at one of the plant’s water storage tanks. The extremely high radiation levels have once … [continued]
Some cleantech eatin’s for you cleantech lovers (click on the categories for our stories on these subjects): Solar Power Two Strategic Lessons from Distributed PV Today, French energy takes a look at the distribution of PV arrays in Germany by system size based on the latest data up to July … [continued]
Drinking water from fracking waste? Almost sounds too good to be true, right? Or perhaps more like a headline from The Onion? Researchers are now proposing a very questionable solution to freshwater scarcity in the water-poor regions of the world — simply take the extremely toxic wastewater produced by hydraulic … [continued]
