published November 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Cogenra Two Birds With One Stone (But No Birds Actually Harmed) Solar water heaters make a lot of sense. Solar photovoltaic panels make a lot of sense too. But why choose between them? Startup Cogenra is combining the two solar technologies in its solar arrays, increasing the total amount of solar energy that can be captured (and thus ...
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published November 10, 2010 and has No Comments
What Next? This short animated film made by the Post Carbon Institute gives a quick and entertaining history of our use of fossil fuels to power most of our lives, and what the ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Brief History of Fossil Fuels (Video)
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published November 8, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Rodrigo Suriani / Creative Commons If you want a decent overview of all the issues that go into the pricing of solar power --from technological issues to comparisons with fossil fuels (when will solar power be less expensive than burning fossil fuels?)--a new piece over at
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Is Asking When Solar Power Will Reach Grid Parity Addressing the ...
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published November 1, 2010 and has No Comments
With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change--considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year, taking meaningful individual action comes back to the forefront. Starting their ' 30 ways in 30 ...
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published October 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Algenol Compared to Gasoline Algenol is working on making ethanol from algae in photobioreactors connected to power plants. Like with all types of biofuels, the most important question with algae-ethanol has always been: Is it really greener than fossil fuels? And if so, how much? A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech tried to answer that question by ...
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published October 20, 2010 and has No Comments
The Leveraged Freedom Chair. Image Credit: MIT Mobility Lab At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week , I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab , presented by Victor Grau Serrat from MIT in Boston. Grau gave an inspiring talk about how design and creativity can lift people ...
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published October 18, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: First Solar Building 2 New Factories by 2012, Creating 1,200 New Jobs First Solar is the 800lbs gorilla of the thin film solar industry, and the gorilla isn't on a diet! The company has announced the construction of two new factories, one in the U.S. and one in Vietnam, by 2012. This should raise its total production capacity ...
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published October 14, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Wayne National Forest / Creative Commons Since the overwhelming majority of Americans have been shown to back solar power, this next one comes as doubly-good news: The latest Solar Market Insight report from SEIA shows that by the end of the 2010, the amount of solar installed this year should be more than double the amount installed in ...
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published October 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: craig forrester , under Creative Commons license News from researcher Dr. Long Que, at Louisiana Tech University , could be one of the most promising breakthrough in energy efficiency ever, as well as a powerful new tool for realizing alternative energies. Que reports designing and succe... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Breakthrough Energy Harvesting ...
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published October 8, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Kevin / Creative Commons The biofuel craze passed a while ago and more sober assessments of their promises and problems took over, but that doesn't mean by a long shot that there isn't plenty of interesting ongoing work being done. Here's just a sampling of what's gone on just this week trying to turn plants into power:... Read ...
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