500 Years of Underground Carbon Storage Mapped across North America
North America has at least 500 years of underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage capacity, according to the North American Carbon Storage Atlas.
Mexico
Kenya, Peru Join List of Countries Advancing Climate Change Laws
Kenya and Peru have joined the list of developing nations creating climate change laws for their own economies. […]
Mexico Emulates Neighbor California With 35% Clean Climate Law
Joining world leaders in climate laws, Mexico just passed new legislation that catapults the poor neighbor to the south of the U.S. to a leadership role on a par with its northern neighbor, California. Mexico’s General Law on Climate Change was just passed by an 128-10 overwhelming vote in its 500 member … [continued]
Clean Links: Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency, Clean Transport, Energy Storage, Geothermal, & Waste-2-Energy News Roundup
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting. 2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH has developed a floating platform designed to be used for offshore … [continued]
Mexico Finalizes Climate Bill to Cap Carbon
Mexico, the world’s 15th biggest greenhouse gas emitter – and ravaged by its worst drought in 80 years – is close to passing legislation to create a domestic greenhouse gas emissions trading system able to cap and cut carbon emissions.
Clean Links
Some more top cleantech stories from around, to kick off the week:
1 GW Green Energy Storage Facility in Mexico Could Open Power Trading Opportunities with US
Mexico is building a green energy storage facility with a capacity of 1000 MW at Mexicali, Baja California. The project will be carried out by Rubenius, a Dubai-based alternate energy and smart gird solutions provider. The facility would require an investment of $4 billion and is expected become operational in … [continued]
Mexico a Solar Energy Gold Mine
A new report out from Mexico’s energy department, SENER, delves deeply into the nation’s vast solar energy potential, which is well above that of current solar energy leaders Germany and Spain. The report, Solar Energy Sector has a ton of info on the solar potential of Mexico, but here are a … [continued]
World’s Largest Solar-Powered Boat, TÛRANOR PlanetSolar, Arriving in Miami Soon
I covered the unveiling of TÛRANOR PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, back in February. In September, this solar-powered catamaran set out on its first major voyage, from Monaco to Miami, FL. It has now been announced that TÛRANOR PlanetSolar will be docking at the Miami Beach Marina, slip A19, on Sunday, … [continued]
Gamesa and Cannon Build One of The Largest Wind Farms In North America
Spanish wind turbine builder Gamesa and San Diego wind farm developer Cannon Power Group have teamed up to start building a wind farm South of the Border to supply clean power to a quarter of a million households in both California and Mexico from 500 MW of power by 2015. … [continued]
