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- Al Gore & Van Jones Tell It Like It Is (Regarding Wind Energy & Jobs)
CleanTechnica (Today) - Here are some truly excellent comments from Al Gore and Van Jones about wind energy and jobs in the US. A must watch: Some of my favorite lines: “… the irony is Ohio is one of the highest states in terms of wind production...
- Leverage points in energy storage
Energy Bulletin (Today) - A lot of money and effort is spent in order to find technological solutions for storing the energy produced by renewables, but very little to understand what the real problem is. How much energy storage do we really need? And is it true that if...
- Anti-Hype in Lithium-ion Batteries Foretells Doom for Electric Cars
Alternative Energy Stocks (Today) - John Petersen Despite billions of dollars in private investments and public subsidies, lithium-ion battery technology has progressed at a snails pace for years and battery developers have recently started to emphasize the importance of baby steps. For the first time in memory, anti-hype is becoming...
- Monitoring and Reducing Energy Drain by Data Centers
CleanTechnica (Today) - Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a device that has the potential to monitor and save the energy consumed by large data centers. Developed at the request of Credit Suisse, EPFL researchers created the Power Monitor System and Management (PMSM)...
- Perspectives on the Geothermal Energy Association Showcase in DC
CleanTechnica (Today) - Geothermal Resource Map The fourth annual GEA International Geothermal Energy Showcase concluded Wednesday, May 23, in Washington DC. The conference featured countries and projects in 6 different regions of the world: Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Turkey, Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Africa. Presentations...
- Germany Reaches Solar Power Generation Record
CleanTechies (Today) - Europe’s ‘economic powerhouse’ can add solar to its epithet. Germany’s solar power plants reached a generation milestone of 22 GW of electricity per hours. That is the same as 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity. According to a Reuters report, that amount of electricity...
- EnergySavvy to Open Boston Office
Seattle PI (Yesterday) - GeekWire reports that EnergySavvy has established a new office in Boston in order to serve its East Coast client base. EnergySavvy is a name rarely seen in the mainstream press, but they’re well established in a business with its own lexicon. One term from that...
- TSX Cleantech Stock Electrovaya (TSX: EFL) Gains 30% in Morning Trading
InvestorIdeas (Yesterday) - New York, NY - May 28, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in renewable energy stock research for independent investors, issues an investor alert for TSX cleantech stock, Electrovaya Inc. (TSX: EFL.TO), trading up at $0.72, up .17 or 30.91%....
- Energy the Key to Canada's Future
InvestorIdeas (Yesterday) - TORONTO, ONTARIO - May 28, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable energy newswire) The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, today delivered the keynote address at the 8th annual Energy Matters Summit, where he emphasized the importance of energy to ensuring Canada's continued economic growth and environmental...
- TSX CLeantech Stocks: Carmanah (TSX: CMH) Reports Successful Results at 2012 Annual General Meeting
InvestorIdeas (Yesterday) - VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - May 28, 2012 (Investorideas.com renewable energy newswire) Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held on May 24, 2012 were duly passed....
- Environment News: Harper Government Protects the Great Lakes from Asian Carp
InvestorIdeas (Yesterday) - TORONTO, ONTARIO - May 28, 2012 (Investorideas.com newswire) The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, announced that the Government of Canada will make a significant investment to protect Canada's Great Lakes from the threat of Asian carp....
- Indian Wind Energy World Leader Fights for Survival
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - Photo courtesy: Suzlon Wind, solar and other renewable energy markets and industries continue to grow at faster rates than those of their respective national economies. Yet, in large part still developing their businesses, their staying power, or financial sustainability– be they involved in wind, solar,...
- Nation's Largest Publicly-Owned Utility Approves Energy Efficiency Budget
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), the nation’s largest public utility, this week adopted an annual budget directing an unprecedented $128 million toward energy efficiency and setting a soft target of 15% cumulative savings by 2020....
- Low natural gas prices are driving coal gasification out of business
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - If three planned gasification plants in Illinois are any indication, the transformation of coal into synthetic natural gas is staring at the destruction of their business model due primarily to low gas prices.Plants that were to be operated by Nebraska-based Tenaska Inc., Power Holdings of...
- Can Market Forces Really be Employed to Address Climate Change?
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- Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand
Inhabitat (Yesterday) - Germany fed a whopping 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour into the national grid on Saturday, setting a new record by meeting nearly half of the country’s weekend power demand. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan opted to shut down all of its nuclear...
- Germany's energy revolution - May 28
Energy Bulletin (Yesterday) - -Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany's nuclear exit -The truth about Germany's nuclear phase-out -Germany sets new solar power record, institute says -Germany Stalled on the Expressway to a Green Future read more...
- Middle of Lake Michigan an Untapped Reservoir of Wind Energy
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - The winds of Lake Michigan — and the rest of the Great Lakes — are an untapped reservoir of renewable energy, according to a project which recently monitored the wind over the Lakes at the height of commercial turbines. Led by Grand Valley State...
- Computer model pinpoints prime materials for efficient carbon capture
ScienceDaily (2 days ago) - The electric power industry expects eventually to implement carbon capture of emissions in order to reduce greenhouse gases, yet today's best technology eats up 30 percent of a plant's power. Scientists have now created a computer model that analyzes the millions of possible porous capture...
- Report: Two Solar Technologies That Will Thrive; Two On the Demise
Alternative Energy Stocks (2 days ago) - Steve Leone Solar technology photo via BigStock For every revolutionary advance in solar, there are countless evolutionary dead-ends — technologies that were well worth exploring, but ones that ultimately failed to live up to the mantra of "cut costs or die." These are the Solyndras...
- Sterling's Weekly Free Energy Review on SmartScarecrow Show: May 24, 2012
PESWiki (2 days ago) - BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough; Zydro Energy Device takes Archimedes Principle and a "eureka moment" to over-unity energy; LENR-to-Market Weekly; A Joe Cell's Unit Charge; Genesis Self-Sustaining Generator Prototype and Documentation Pops up on eBay; Tabletop Brown's Gas Electrolyzer; Blue Science Goes...
- LENR-to-Market Weekly -- May 17, 2012
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Given the magnitude of the recent disclosures about the E-Cat, I've decided to move them back into #1 position in our Top 5 Exotic Free Energy Technologies listing, influence by the report that their first 1 MW plant sold is now in full operation. Defkalion...
- Aviso Demonstrates Self-Looped Generator for Philippine International TV
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Ismael Aviso recently demonstrated what he calls a ''self-looped generator'' for two of the major Philippine TV stations. It's a variation of a previous set-up in which he powered an electric vehicle from a Tesla-related antenna that apparently pulls ambient energy from the surroundings. (PESN;...
- Sterling's Weekly Free Energy Review on SmartScarecrow Show: May 17, 2012
PESWiki (2 days ago) - LENR-to-Market Weekly (E-Cat back at number 1); New Energy Systems Trust (NEST) Website Launched; Looking for Airplane to Make Aviation History with HHO Power; Aviso Demonstrates Self-Looped Generator for Philippine International TV; Tesla the greatest geek ever; Demo of centrifugal power harnessing; Oil-water separation, by...
- A Joe Cell's Unit Charge
PESWiki (2 days ago) - ''I determined that as a Joe cell is being charged in its normal charge cycle, and while low level electrolysis is taking place; the cell develops a voltage that has never before been addressed. I refer to this voltage as unit charge. Unit charge can...
- LENR-to-Market Weekly -- May 24, 2012
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Highlights this week include Rossi's claim to have achieved 600 degrees C, his positive response to Hank Mills agreeing to post more data; speculation about how the Greek crisis will effect Defkalion; video of Brillouin's reactor in operation; video of Mitch Swartz's reactor in operation;...
- Genesis Self-Sustaining Generator Prototype and Documentation Pops up on eBay
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Remember the G-Cell by Genesis World Energy back in 2003 that had everyone excited, curious, mad? The company founder, Patrick Timothy Kelly ended up in jail for fraud. Well, the demonstration unit is now up for sale on eBay. Bid closes in a few hours,...
- Zydro Energy Device takes Archimedes Principle and a "eureka moment" to over-unity energy
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Inventor, Wayne Travis, from Oklahoma, seems to have come up with a way to harvest buoyancy as a prime mover for generating usable energy. Skeptic Mark Dansie is preliminarily impressed with their results, and sees the technology as possibly surpassing wind and solar as a...
- Electricity generated from water: BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Leading academic and industry experts have validated BlackLight's new process that directly produces electric energy from the conversion of water vapor to a new, more stable form of Hydrogen. Experts agree that BlackLight's 'Hydrino theory' represents a fundamental breakthrough in clean energy technology. (PESN; May...
- Mission Africa — 3000 Miles in an Electric Car: or, Xavier Chevrin Is Manlier Than You
CleanTechnica (2 days ago) - A depressingly high percentage of new car buyers don’t even want to hear about the potential benefits of an electric car. “It doesn’t go far enough per charge,” they complain, or “But where am I going to plug in it? My garage is full...
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