A study commissioned by the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum finds that if the state gets 30% of its energy from renewables by 2027, that could add 68,000 jobs and give a $10 billion boost to the state’s economy.
Researchers at Osaka University have created a catalyst that breaks down chemicals derived from biomass into industrial feedstocks for making plastics. The process is inexpensive and carbon neutral.
Consumer products giant Procter and Gamble has completed a 50 megawatt biomass-fired cogeneration facility at its paper products factory in Albany, Georgia in partnership with retail energy supplier Constellation.
A number of people made some really interesting comments on my recent CleanTechnica article, “Mark Z. Jacobson & The 100% Renewable Energy Naysayers.” Some of these had to do with the problem of getting the last 20% of our energy from renewable sources, after we got to the 80% mark.
According to new research from the University of Leicester’s College of Medicine, common forms of air pollution directly increase the potential for bacterial respiratory infection. Also, very interestingly, they alter the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment.
Lower Austria, the largest of Austria’s nine states, has announced it now generates 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. Located on the Danube River, Europe’s second largest river, has considerably aided this claim, as some 63% of the region’s electricity generation comes from hydroelectric mechanisms that are located on the … [continued]
We now have more insights into how the clean-tech economy is doing from this year’s sixth annual US Clean Tech Leadership Index. The index, prepared by Clean Edge, a research and indexing firm founded in 2000, tracks and ranks clean-tech activities in all 50 states and the largest 50 metro … [continued]
A $10 million dollar pilot biomass plant will be constructed in the Western Australian Capital of Perth. Now you may be wondering, how can there be enough pilots in Western Australia to make rendering them down into biofuel worthwhile? But rest assured, in this case the word pilot does not … [continued]
As newly elected members took their seats in Congress yesterday for the first time, Washington’s almighty kerfluffle about the Keystone XL pipeline resurfaced. Here’s some background. Calgary-based TransCanada proposed several years ago to send oil from the Canadian tar sands terminal at Hardisty, Alberta, via a small-diameter Keystone pipeline routed … [continued]
Yes, you did hear that right. For the first time ever, the annual API energy report is including the solar energy resource. It ranks among the top four …
