Just a few days after the Curiosity rover made its heart-stopping descent onto the surface of Mars, another kind of spacecraft drama played out right here on Earth. On August 9, NASA’s experimental “green” landing craft Morpheus made its first unassisted flight at Kennedy Space Center. That endeavor quickly ended with … [continued]
Given the huge disparity between the contributions made to GHG emissions by the First World when compared with less developed nations, it’s hardly surprising that, a lot of the time, cleantech projects are aimed very much at the West. Innovations and initiatives such as jet fuels produced from algae, wave disk generator engines, or … [continued]
While the intro on LEDs in this post, and maybe more, may be a bit basic for some of our readers, I found this pitched guest post quite interesting and I learned quite a bit about LEDs from it, so thought it would make for a good CleanTechnica share … [continued]
Some top clean transport news from the last week or so (other than our own clean transport stories): EVs New York and the US federal government are partnering to fund 325 new electric-vehicle charging stations across the state. “Dana Rubinstein asks if this investment will be enough to persuade … [continued]
The Washington, DC-based non-profit has installed solar PV systems in 11 Haitian health clinics and one hospital, building on a partnership with the Government of Haiti and Inter-American Development Bank.
Commercial-scale and utility-scale solar power are viewed as the next frontier for the solar industry in Australia. The incentives that drove the wild boom in residential solar power — state-run feed-in tariffs coupled with federal up-front discounts in the form of renewable energy certificate — have mostly died down, … [continued]
They are at the entrance to the 2012 New York International Auto Show, their first auto show, with only one vehicle, but what a vehicle. Terrafugia is a Massachusetts company sure to become increasingly known as the people who make vehicles that can fly to more than 5000 public airports and then be driven home to a garage. Foul weather can ground the pilot of a light aircraft but with the “Transition” the sport pilot’s license gives way to a driver’s license and the journey continues. […]
According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, airports could become a significant source of biomass for biofuels. The key takeaway from the report, Airports Offer Unrealized Potential for Alternative Energy Production, is that the typical airport environment is already managed to include wide swaths of … [continued]
The following is an excellent short history of solar panels and solar power from guest contributor Dane Cross. I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy it — I did! What do Archimedes, Einstein and Arnold Schwarzenegger all have in common? Answer: They’ve all contributed to the development of solar power. From the 3rd Century BC when Archimedes … [continued]
The last time I wrote on white roofs, the finding was that they could actually cause a net cooling. But the study didn’t take into account how much the cooling of the buildings reduced electricity demand. Looks like those electricity savings can be huge from a new study on the … [continued]
