China Invests In Renewable Energy In Cuba
Cuba is attracting foreign investment from China and the UK in its quest to increase renewable power generation and reduce carbon emissions.
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Coal & Gas Are Too Variable To Be Worth Considering
Solar and wind power are absolutely predictable when it comes to variable costs. By contrast, coal and gas power are altogether too variable to be reliable.
Clean Heating & Cooling Systems — More Ways To Reduce GHG Emissions
New York state’s goals of 50% renewable energy by 2040 include a focus on clean heating and cooling.
Michigan Conservatives Shocked To Learn Renewables Could Give Economy A $10 Billion Boost!
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.
New Catalyst Unlocks Industrial Chemicals For Making Plastics From Biomass
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.
Procter & Gamble and Constellation Announce Completion of 50 Megawatt Biomass Cogeneration Facility
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.
Getting The Last 20% Of Our Energy From Renewables
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.
Air Pollution Alters Effectiveness Of Antibiotics, Increases Disease Potential
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 Claims 100% Renewable Electricity
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]
California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Colorado, New York Lead Clean Tech
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]
