Here’s an extremely lengthy end-of-week roundup of cleantech stories. To make scrolling through your interests more manageable, I’m splitting it up into a few pages based on topic.
Page 1 –>> Solar Energy
Page 2 –>> Wind Energy
Page 3 –>> Energy Efficiency & Energy Storage
Page 4 –>> Transportation
Page 5 –>> Politics
Page 6 –>> Other Clean News & Commentary
Top cleantech news from the last day or two.
Researchers at the University of Connecticut have developed a new energy efficient device that converts waste vegetable oil into biofuel. Consisting primarily of a giant glass vessel fitted out with tubes and rods, the prototype operation already produces enough biodiesel to help run
This special guest post comes to us from Rebecca D. Costa, author of The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction (more on Rebecca in the bio at the bottom). If we took a moment to rank every government agency in the United States on the basis of tackling … [continued]
Eurostar announced a little more than a week ago that is was planning to invest £700 million ($1.114 billion) in its rolling stock and that the company would have some of the greenest trains in the world by 2014 as a result. Siemens, based in Germany, is the company Eurostar … [continued]
Apparently, Boeing’s new solar plane could fly around the world for years without stopping. And if you thought (like I did), “Well, what about the need for food and drinks?,” that’s not an issue, since this baby can fly without a human pilot. SolarEagle is the name of this new … [continued]
Imagine the Starship Enterprise powered by safe, reliable solar energy and – well, okay so it’s a lot less dramatic than the dilithium crystal thing, but that’s the point: you get the speed without the risk because essentially, there’s no fuel. According to a gathering of scientists at the Second … [continued]
The U.S. Navy is getting serious about solar energy and has just awarded five contracts worth up to $100 million for the design, installation and management of solar arrays at Navy and Marine Corps facilities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. This is by no means the first … [continued]
This week the solar group discount company 1BOG launched a Long Island Solar group discount campaign with one of the lowest prices for solar in the US. Long Island, New York is the site of the infamous Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, a $6 billion boondoggle that was shut down in … [continued]
Battle of the Bulbs: LEDs (light-emitting diodes) have been the Next Big Thing in lighting for nearly a decade, but have never been made bright enough to illuminate the pages of Malcolm Gladwell while we read in bed. Until now. This week, GE unveiled an eco-equivalent to the 40-watt incandescent … [continued]
