Reposted from RenewEconomy (image added): Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of global industrial giant and leading energy supply company GE, had just a few words to say during a lightning visit to Australia this week to meet clients, sign deals and announce winners of the company’s first “ecomagination” low carbon challenge … [continued]
Lithium-air batteries have the potential to achieve extremely high energy densities that would render the range issue of electric vehicles completely unimportant. However, they still need work, and it’s not a foregone conclusion which battery technology will lead the market in a decade or so. Some researchers have decided to pursue … [continued]
Another day, another story about fossil fuel–funded attacks on clean energy. Thanks to venerable organizations like the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) for getting out there and helping to advance society, rather than send it backwards. This repost below is actually from yesterday, but I think it’s still worth a quick … [continued]
Reposted from Solar Love: Just as a quick reminder, if our national goal is to create jobs, investing in clean energy is several times more effective than investing in fossil fuel or nuclear jobs. Robert Pollin, the President of Pear Energy and a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has … [continued]
Wiki-Solar bills itself as “the interactive information source on major global photovoltaic power projects” and it has just released a list of the top 20 photovoltaic project installers globally. At the top of the list, with a total of 759 MW across 11 sites, is First Solar, which includes the … [continued]
“How many more reports do we need to tell us that we must make investing in America’s infrastructure a priority,” said President and CEO of the American Public Transport Association (APTA), Michael Melaniphy in response to the 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure released by the American Society of Civil Engineers … [continued]
Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun’s light and heat into electricity. “This is a major step toward making practical devices based on our … [continued]
China advanced their cumulative installed wind capacity by 21%, according to recent data released. Climate Connect noted total Chinese wind capacity in 2012 had surpassed 75 GW, based on data from China’s Wind Energy Association.
Reposted from Solar Love: The UK’s Solarcentury is about to complete construction of 70 megawatts (MW) of solar power projects, 38 MW of which have been completed in the past 6 months. The entire 70 MW are scheduled for completion by the end of this month (March 2013). “To date, … [continued]
As I noted in my long article about Masdar, Masdar City is clearly the most well known arm of the company. The ambitiously green city is of course at a very early stage of its development, and I know that many have skeptically postulated that it’s never going to be … [continued]
