Thursday, August 4, 2011

Wind Stocks; Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB … – Green Energy


The highlight of the Company's presentation given by Ronald W. Pickett, President and CEO will be the formal unveiling of their Downdraft Tower featuring Green Dual Renewable Energy Solutions.<p>The highlight of the Company&#39;s presentation given by Ronald W. Pickett, President and CEO will be the formal unveiling of their Downdraft Tower featuring Green Dual Renewable Energy Solutions. </p>
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Inexpensive Truck Aero-Tweak Could Save 1.5 Billion Gallons of Diesel Each Year


Photo: Flickr , CC It's all about low-pressure areas... Most long-haul freight should be transported on trains rather than trucks, since rail shipping is more fuel-efficient, doesn't add to road congestion, and reduces infrastructure maintenance costs (70,000lbs trucks can be very damaging to roads). But sadly, the reality in the U.S<p>Photo: Flickr , CC It&#8217;s all about low-pressure areas&#8230; Most long-haul freight should be transported on trains rather than trucks, since rail shipping is more fuel-efficient, doesn&#8217;t add to road congestion, and reduces infrastructure maintenance costs (70,000lbs trucks can be very damaging to roads). But sadly, the reality in the U.S</p>
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Investing Pro laments early stage nature of most green energy companies. August 3rd, 2011 at 17:34. from ChiefEngineer.org.<p>Investing Pro laments early stage nature of most green energy companies. August 3rd, 2011 at 17:34. from ChiefEngineer.org. </p>
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Green Expo comes to Fresno Fairgrounds | Green Energy


The event promises to feature just about everything green , including alternative energy , green building and agriculture. “It will be bit on farming and gardening,” said Marc Michon, organizer of the event. ..

The event promises to feature just about everything green , including alternative energy , green building and agriculture. “It will be bit on farming and gardening,” said Marc Michon, organizer of the event. ..


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Toyota Aims for 17,000 Prius Plug-in Sales in U.S. Next Year


Photo: Tom Raftery, Flickr , CC Competition for the Chevy Volt While Toyota is getting ready to go 100% electric with the Scion iQ EV and the Toyota RAV4 EV with a Tesla powertrain , it is also betting a lot on the intermediary step that is the plug-in hybrid technology (...

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Scientific Conservation Files Lawsuit Against Founder, Serious Energy


Scientific Conservation has filed a lawsuit against its founder, Serious Energy, and another employee for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets and other causes of action.
The suit--filed in the Superior Court of Georgia--revolves around the sudden...

Scientific Conservation has filed a lawsuit against its founder, Serious Energy, and another employee for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets and other causes of action.


The suit--filed in the Superior Court of Georgia--revolves around the sudden defection of founder and former CTO John Pitcher and sales vice president Chip Pieper to Serious Energy late last week. The complaint includes allegation of violation of trade secrets, breach of contract and other actions. Scientific is currently combing its computer systems and databases to determine what Pitcher may allegedly have taken with him. Much of Pitcher's work has taken place in Georgia.


"This action is necessary. We've been left with no choice but to do it," said Scientific's General counsel Dana Dufrane, who added that Pitcher's departure was "a complete surprise."


Pitcher, she added, is also still a shareholder in Scientific. The case was filed today and we have yet to contact Serious about it.


The case will not likely go away overnight. Both Scientific and Serious have grand designs in this rapidly-growing market. Here's the story we wrote last week:


John Pitcher, the founder of Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI) and one of the more prominent experts in energy management, has left the company he founded to join Serious Energy, according to sources.


Vice president of sales Chip Pieper has also left.


The sudden departure of Pitcher is clearly a coup for Serious, which has repositioned itself as a building management company, and will likely raise questions about what, if anything, is going on at SCI. Pitcher, after all, is not departing because he's a founder that insisted on being CEO. Russ McMeekin, a Honeywell vet, has been CEO of SCI for more than two years. Before SCI, Pitcher worked at Sterling Planet, Envenergy (whose software became the basis of Cisco Mediator) and served as the first energy manager at McDonald's.


SCI has been a rising star in building management, pulling in investment from General Electric and Intel Capital. In June, it bought a company called Servidyne, which provides facilities management and demand response services.


SCI takes the mathematics behind neural networks (Pitcher's area of expertise) and applies it to building management, examining data concerning weather, the HVAC system, and occupancy, and then compares the data against computerized simulations to determine what's not working, or what's about to fail. The system then feeds this data into the existing building management system. Maintenance workers can go fix AC units or replace overheating parts while the building management system adjusts the air conditioner. In the end, the building is continually commissioned.


SCI, however, only points out problems and inefficiencies with buildings. It doesn't manage or control HVAC systems. Competitors like Serious and EnerNoc can pinpoint inefficiencies as well as manage buildings, and in the past they've had no compunction about pointing that out. Whether or not SCI's strategy would be a plus or a shortcoming in sales has been the subject of debate in the industry.


SCI has had grand growth plans. Back in November, McMeekin, CEO of building management specialist Scientific Conservation Inc., told us that the company's goal for 2011 was to expand the amount of commercial real estate it controlled from 15 million square feet to a whopping 100 million to 150 million square feet. Much of that expansion has been expected to come through deals with GE and Intel. GE and Intel have agreed to put SCI's software in place at some locations, but massive, industrial-scale rollouts have yet to be announced.


We haven't received official word from either company on the executive switch. We hope to get more updates and explanations soon.


Serious is mostly known for trying to popularize green building products like energy efficient windows and green drywall. The decline in building and new construction, however, made building products a tough sell. A commercial-scale factory for EcoRock, in fact, has never been built.


To that end, Serious in September 2010 bought Valence Energy, an energy management company spun out of Santa Clara University. Serious Energy used to be known as Serious Materials.




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First Solar Sets Efficiency Record: 17.3 Percent


First Solar today announced that it has produced a cadmium telluride solar cell with a 17.3 percent efficiency, shattering a ten year old record set by NREL.
The old record was 16.7 percent and set in 2001. In solar, that's like breaking a record set ...

First Solar today announced that it has produced a cadmium telluride solar cell with a 17.3 percent efficiency, shattering a ten year old record set by NREL.


The old record was 16.7 percent and set in 2001. In solar, that's like breaking a record set by Jesse Owens in Berlin. Most records in this business inch the mark up by a one to two tenths.


The solar cell won't go into production soon, but might help ease some concerns that cadmium telluride is approaching an efficiency ceiling. First Solar's cadmium telluride solar modules are cheaper than any other solar module in the world to manufacture. In the first quarter, First Solar produced modules in its factory on average for 75 cents a watt. (The actual sale price is higher.)


The average efficiency, however, is comparatively on the low side. First Solar boosted its average efficiency to 11.7 percent: that's up from the 11.1 percent efficiency for the same period the year before but below the efficiencies (14 to 20 percent) seen in crystalline silicon solar panels and 12 percent plus efficiencies seen in copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar modules. Module efficiency is typically a few points lower than cell effficiency.


Some have theorized that cadmium telluride modules might top out at 14 to 16 percent efficiency. Crystalline silicon modules can realistically go to 25 percent efficiency with cells approaching 29 percent efficiency. Crystalline manufacturers, however, can then boost those numbers by taking advantage of concentrators: SunPower, facing its own efficiency walls, unfurled a concentrator strategy last year. In the lab, CIGS cells have topped 20 percent. First Solar itself has even been conducting a skunk works project to test the feasibility of making CIGS modules itself for the past few years.


Thus, any efficiency breakthrough in cadmium telluride is good news for First Solar.


While some analysts will grouse that efficiency isn't the most important metric to look at when evaluating a solar technology, it is important. Very important, in fact. Boosting efficiency increases the power output of panels and the overall productivity of a factory. High efficiency modules also command higher premiums. A plant that produces modules with a 15-percent efficiency will simply generate more cash than an equivalent one that churns out the same number of panels with a ten-percent efficiency.


The announcement also helps quell any doubts about its dominance in cadmium telluride. The company produces nearly all of the world's cadmium telluride panels. In fact, it is also the dominant player in thin film solar modules. But in recent years, General Electric, Abound Solar and others have entered the cadmium telluride market. Earlier this year, General Electric said it hit 12.8 percent efficiency in the lab and planned on mass manufacturing cadmium telluride modules with record efficiencies in 2013.


First Solar says it will be at 13.5 to 14.5 percent efficiencies by the end of 2014.


Take that, Batman.




Monday, July 18, 2011

Former First Solar CEO Starts VC Fund


Michael Ahearn, who stepped down as the First Solar CEO in 2009, has re-emerged.
Ahearn is behind True North Venture Partners, which will invest in early stage energy, waste, water and food startups. While energy has garnered billions from VCs, those ...

Michael Ahearn, who stepped down as the First Solar CEO in 2009, has re-emerged.


Ahearn is behind True North Venture Partners, which will invest in early stage energy, waste, water and food startups. While energy has garnered billions from VCs, those other sectors have somewhat lagged. The picture, however, has begun to change and recycling is shaping up to be a growth market. The world, meanwhile, is expected to endure rising food prices and chronic droughts in the future.


The firm will put $100,000 to $25 million into companies.


Ahearn was a co-founder of First Solar and served as CEO for years. The company's history stretches back almost 20 years. In the late 90s, however, First Solar had a breakthrough in coming up with a way to produce cadmium telluride solar cells. It began to manufacture them in 2002. The rest is history. It now makes the cheapest solar modules (under 75 cents a watt) and jousts with Suntech for the number one spot in the industry. (Savor the irony: neither Suntech or First Solar, two of the biggest IPOs in greentech history, received money from Sand Hill Road VCs.)


When Ahearn announced he was stepping down in 2009, he said he planned to work on behalf of the solar industry by lobbying and raising the profile of solar in Washington and state capitols.


"The manufacturing incentives will be useful sweeteners, but that won't substitute for creating a robust market," Ahearn said then. "You ought to get the policy and program right, and you can't leave it all to the states. Otherwise it'd be fragmented and underfunded."


Solar, arguably, needs more lobbying help than money. Either way, it's good to see him back.


Side note: rumors swirl that Nicholas Parker of the Cleantech Group is trying to raise a fund.




Mixed Greens: SeaMicro Unfurls More Servers, GE Links with Lowe’s on EVs and More


The number of the day is 768.
That is the number of processor cores that SeaMicro has managed to cram into its latest server, boosting its compute-per-watt figure by 20 percent. The elegantly named SM 10000-64HD contains 384 dual-core Intel Atom proce...

The number of the day is 768.


That is the number of processor cores that SeaMicro has managed to cram into its latest server, boosting its compute-per-watt figure by 20 percent. The elegantly named SM 10000-64HD contains 384 dual-core Intel Atom processors and is the third server from SeaMicro. The last server from the company contained 512 cores, or 256 dual-core Atoms.


SeaMicro's servers consume less than 1/4th the power and take up far less space than conventional servers. Each server, technically speaking, is about the size of a credit card and hundreds of them are crammed into a boxes that fit into server racks.


"Power and space are over 75 percent of your operating expense," CEO Andrew Feldman told us earlier this year. "We've removed 90 percent of the components."


The size and power reductions are possible because of the changing nature of computing. in the past, vendors found it impossible to predict what sort of tasks their machines would be asked to tackle, so they made versatile, all-purpose machines. Now, most servers perform rote functions: serving up pictures of kittens or videos. (And you thought only your job was getting more boring.) As a result, SeaMicro can use an energy-efficient Atom chip, ordinarily used in phones, in its servers and not a power-hogging Xeon.


The other factor is a networking technology invented by SeaMicro. The Atom chips are all connected in a complex three-dimensional torus, a shape that's a cross between a donut and one of the segments of the Michelin Man. The torus allows signals to travel between different chips efficiently. IBM uses a torus in its supercomputers. Thus, although SeaMicro sells servers, it really is a networking company and if it gets bought, a strong likelihood, it could be the networking that is at the core of the transaction.


Data centers only consume around 2 percent of the world's power but customers (banks, Internet companies) are terrified of rising power prices while the IT industry has honed the ability to move quick to capitalize on trends. Thus, IT will be one of the most active green markets over the next several years.


Elsewhere:


--Lowe's will offer the General Electric WattStation EV charger to customers. Lowe's wants to be your energy leader in the home. It also has deals with Sungevity and Westinghouse for solar and Recurve for efficiency retrofits. Lowe's, in fact, invested in both Recurve and Sungevity.


--Prices for rare earth minerals will continue to climb, says Molycorp, which wants to reopen a rare earth mine in California. Worldwide demand will come to 60,000 tons and China will export 30,000 tons, according to the company. China reduced exports by 40 percent last year and may curb exports even more this year. Rare earths are crucial ingredients in magnets for electric motors, wind turbines and other devices. Electric cars contain around 10 pounds of rare earths, a group of 17 elements. China's actions have caused Molycorp's stock to skyrocket because its Mountain Pass mine contains a large quantity of high grade ores. Chevron sold the mine to Molycorp for $80 million in 2008. Now the company is worth billions.


The sudden increase in wealth has allowed Molycorp to buy other companies and move from serving as a miner to a company that processes ores. It will also be part of a joint venture to manufacture magnets with Hitachi here in the U.S. Who says you can make stuff here anymore?


--Cellulosic ethanol and advanced fuels chug on. POET has won a $105 million loan guarantee to build a cellulosic ethanol plant. Cellulosic ethanol relies on wood waste rather than corn and the overall energy balance is expected to be far higher. Meanwhile, OPX Biotechnologies has raised $45 million. OPX wants to make fuel from carbon dioxide with a magic microbe.


--And happy birthday to John Glenn. The U.S. Senator turns 90 today. Back in the 50s, he orbited the globe under the name when Ham the Space Chimp.


--Finally, here's a video of SeaMicro's servers:





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August 18 , 2010 – ( Investorideas.com renewable energy / green newswire ) Investorideas.com a leading global investor and industry portal covering the green and renewable energy sector release a sector close-up on solar ...

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Redskins to Install 2MW of Solar and Electric Car Charging at FedEx Field


Image credit: Washington Redskins From a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep to the world's largest solar soccer stadium , the marriage of clean energy and sports is a perfect way to demonstrate the potential of renewables and bring them to a mainstream audience. That's wh...

Image credit: Washington Redskins From a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep to the world’s largest solar soccer stadium , the marriage of clean energy and sports is a perfect way to demonstrate the potential of renewables and bring them to a mainstream audience. That’s wh…


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Deepak Chopra – On the Environment, Efficient and Clean Energy …


Deepak Chopra – On the Environment, Efficient and Clean Energy . July 18th, 2011 at 4:19. Deepak Chopra – On the Environment, Efficient and Clean Energy From his book, “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”. April 7th ...

Deepak Chopra – On the Environment, Efficient and Clean Energy . July 18th, 2011 at 4:19. Deepak Chopra – On the Environment, Efficient and Clean Energy From his book, “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”. April 7th …


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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

9MW New Jersey Solar Roof Will Be Biggest in the USA


Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France , I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No sooner do I write about a refrigerated warehouse in Baltimore staying cool through ...

Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault’s 60MW solar project in France , I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No sooner do I write about a refrigerated warehouse in Baltimore staying cool through …


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Chinese Wind, EU Small Solar Drive Global Clean Energy Investments …


Last year, investors pumped a record $211 billion into renewables, and the patterns of investments are shifting.

Last year, investors pumped a record $211 billion into renewables, and the patterns of investments are shifting.


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Phone in clean energy? | Green Energy


Phone in clean energy ? July 12th, 2011 at 23:36. Pretty soon, checking to see if the oven was left on, the door left open or the AC was stuck on high will be as easy as pulling up the appropriate data on a portable electronic device. ...

Phone in clean energy ? July 12th, 2011 at 23:36. Pretty soon, checking to see if the oven was left on, the door left open or the AC was stuck on high will be as easy as pulling up the appropriate data on a portable electronic device. …


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Seaweeds Could be a Source of Next-Gen Biofuels


Photo: Wikipedia , CC Offshore Wind Farms Might be Best Place to Grow Seaweed 'Farms' Biofuels made with food crops are generally a bad idea. By competing with food production for land, they increase the price of many commodities which are already expensive for the poorest people on Earth. This is so bad that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has released a warning that U.S.

Photo: Wikipedia , CC Offshore Wind Farms Might be Best Place to Grow Seaweed ‘Farms’ Biofuels made with food crops are generally a bad idea. By competing with food production for land, they increase the price of many commodities which are already expensive for the poorest people on Earth. This is so bad that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has released a warning that U.S.


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Will Inverters Compete With Storage? Will They Take Over the Grid?


SAN FRANCISCO --- Who needs energy storage when you have a smart inverter?
Battery banks and other energy storage technologies essentially absorb power produced by solar panels and wind farms and distribute it to the grid in a smooth, orderly fashion....

SAN FRANCISCO --- Who needs energy storage when you have a smart inverter?


Battery banks and other energy storage technologies essentially absorb power produced by solar panels and wind farms and distribute it to the grid in a smooth, orderly fashion. Smart inverters, meanwhile, convert DC power from panels and turbines and then deliver it to the grid in a smooth, orderly fashion through the magic of networking and communications. In other words, the process is the same, but the smart inverter is probably cheaper.


"An inverter can act like a capacitor," said Owen Schelenz, an lead engineer at General Electric, speaking at a solar electronics symposium at Intersolar in San Francisco this week. "Energy storage is still unproven technology. Should it be at a photovoltaic power plant or a substation?"


Inverters can also ameliorate voltage dips and spikes to stabilize the grid, he added. GE's inverters in the wind market already provide this sort of functionality, he said.


Inverters and solar electronics are at a crossroads these days. Intense competition has begun to drive prices and margins down. Chinese manufacturers will also increasingly scoop market share from the Europeans and U.S. manufacturers that currently dominate the space. Under the SunShot program sponsored by the Department of Energy, solar companies will try to bring the cost of solar power, including installation, down to $1 per watt: only 10 cents will be allocated to inverters.


But luckily for the inverter industry, inverters are based around chips, one of those somewhat rare industrial products that get cheaper, better and faster simultaneously. Thus, inverter manufacturers have a golden opportunity to integrate functionality and other applications. The so-called balance of system costs, which include everything but the solar panel, will rise from 44.8 percent in 2010 to 50.6 percent in 2012, according to GTM Research. If inverter makers can grab a larger share of that, they could break out of SunShot's 10-cent ghetto.


Solectria Renewables, for instance, is coming out with a menu of smart add-ons, according to senior design engineer Lu Jiang. Features that will be more prominent in Solectria's inverters in the future include low-voltage ride-through, which stabilizes power; control of onsite storage assets; master control for PV plants; communication with other grid assets and control over the ramp rate of power production. In other words, inverters will essentially act like computers or servers.


Inverter makers will also become consultants. "Inverter makers will be required to provide low-flow models to assist in plant certification," he said.


If that sounds like a stretch, look to the computer industry again. Dell and Hewlett-Packard started out as desktop companies before graduating to servers and consulting. Meanwhile, IBM execs have also mused about putting the equivalent of servers on power poles to manage renewables, demand response and power production. Inverter convergence from certain angles starts to look inevitable.


Inverter nirvana, however, won't happen overnight or in a vacuum. Communications standards and other protocols will have to be established before utilities begin to allow solar inverters to provide high-value services like voltage regulation, said Schelenz. (Side note: although Schelenz expressed doubts about storage, GE has made a huge investment in sodium batteries for grid storage. Sodium batteries sit at places like substations and power plants so would likely be compatible with smart inverters.)


Other notes out of the session:


--Richard Berrios from the California-Spain Chamber of Commerce, trotted out some interesting economic facts. China has allocated $7.3 billion to smart grid investments, leading the world, while the U.S. came in second with $7.1 billion. China, he added, needs to double its energy capacity by 2020 and will spend $96 billion overall on smart grid investments by then. It is estimated that 18.2 percent of smart appliances will be bought in China by 2015.


Brazil's an interesting case study. Energy consumption will rise by 60 percent from 2007 to 2017, and 63 million smart meters will be in place by 2021. Thirty-four percent of new power production will come from renewables including hydro, he added. Unfortunately, Brazil has a creaky grid infrastructure so it may face challenges matching its renewable goal with the assets it has on the ground.




Monday, July 11, 2011

New UK ‘Green’ Energy Policies To Increase Customer Costs by 30 …


Household electricity bills will soar by 30 per cent to pay for “ green ” measures being announced this week by Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, according to experts. Photo: APBy Rowena Mason and David Barrett ...

Household electricity bills will soar by 30 per cent to pay for “ green ” measures being announced this week by Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, according to experts. Photo: APBy Rowena Mason and David Barrett …


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Reaching Past Borders to Protect the Mediterranean


The EcoOcean research vessel R/V Mediterranean Explorer. Photo: EcoOcean. Countries around the Mediterranean have been abuzz in recent weeks over currently thwarted plans to sail a flotilla of ships to run Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip -- an action that ended in nine deaths , and ongoing regional tensions, last year. Meanwhile, a less-heralded seafaring expedition took to the sam...

The EcoOcean research vessel R/V Mediterranean Explorer. Photo: EcoOcean. Countries around the Mediterranean have been abuzz in recent weeks over currently thwarted plans to sail a flotilla of ships to run Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip — an action that ended in nine deaths , and ongoing regional tensions, last year. Meanwhile, a less-heralded seafaring expedition took to the sam…


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Green News; EARTH DAY NETWORK AND FACEBOOK … – Green Energy


These actions can be immediate changes like switching to energy efficient light bulbs, or large-scale projects that achieve lasting change, such as efforts to green our cities and our schools. ...

These actions can be immediate changes like switching to energy efficient light bulbs, or large-scale projects that achieve lasting change, such as efforts to green our cities and our schools. …


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June Record High Temperatures Beat Record Lows 11-to-1 in US – Plus, Arctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Volume


photo: Global Jet / Creative Commons Two important and interesting but unfortunately not encouraging factoids on climate change: Continuing and increasing a trend, in the US record hot temperatures for June outpaced record cool temperatures by 11:1; in the Arctic, June sea ice extent hit a second-lowest point while also hitting the lowest June volume on record. ...

photo: Global Jet / Creative Commons Two important and interesting but unfortunately not encouraging factoids on climate change: Continuing and increasing a trend, in the US record hot temperatures for June outpaced record cool temperatures by 11:1; in the Arctic, June sea ice extent hit a second-lowest point while also hitting the lowest June volume on record. …


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June Record High Temperatures Beat Record Lows 11-to-1 in US – Plus, Arctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Volume


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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Signing on for green energy | Longboat Key News


Yes, I'm signing on as a supporter of green energy . I was inspired by a picture in Sunday's Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The photo in question showed a line of happy folks, holding hands, in support of green energy . ..

Yes, I'm signing on as a supporter of green energy . I was inspired by a picture in Sunday's Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The photo in question showed a line of happy folks, holding hands, in support of green energy . ..


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Renewable Energy News, April 13, 2010 | Green Energy


The International Site for the Green Energy Industries. « Suntech Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results-Full year 2008 total shipments of solar products grew 36.0% year-over-year ...

The International Site for the Green Energy Industries. « Suntech Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results-Full year 2008 total shipments of solar products grew 36.0% year-over-year …


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Monday, June 27, 2011

Chevron’s Green Energy Playbook – Green Energy Reporter


Chevron throws a quick slant to green energy . HUT, HUT!!! Is Chevron, which announced yesterday that it has begun testing solar panels at an old California refinery site, positioning itself to become a “pan-energy” ...

Chevron throws a quick slant to green energy . HUT, HUT!!! Is Chevron, which announced yesterday that it has begun testing solar panels at an old California refinery site, positioning itself to become a “pan-energy” …


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Green Energy Reporter | November Top 10 Players in Green Energy


Former Assistant Energy Secretary Dan Reicher is casting about for the answer to that question. In November, Reicher left his post as Googleís director of climate change and green energy initiatives to lead Stanford ...

Former Assistant Energy Secretary Dan Reicher is casting about for the answer to that question. In November, Reicher left his post as Googleís director of climate change and green energy initiatives to lead Stanford …


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How Big is Too Big For Solar Power?


Image credit: Alex Lang , used under Creative Commons license. The UK may be backing off from large-scale solar power , but elsewhere there seems to be a surge in installations. From the world's first 24/7 power plant in Spain , through

Image credit: Alex Lang , used under Creative Commons license. The UK may be backing off from large-scale solar power , but elsewhere there seems to be a surge in installations. From the world’s first 24/7 power plant in Spain , through


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