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- Watt's Watt?
Alternative Energy Stocks (Today) - by Debra Fiakas CFA In the earlier post on Brightsource Energy and its Ivanpah solar thermal power plant in California cited costs for the plant as well as costs for nuclear and conventional power sources. A reader pointed out a discrepancy in those figures and...
- New Jersey Must Consider Climate Change Risks in Recovery Programs
The Energy Collective (Today) - Extreme weather events in recent years have made states throughout the country rethink how investments in communities can make them more resilient to future storms and other types of natural disasters. There is no clearer example of this than in New York and New Jersey.read...
- Photos: Is GE's Space Frame Tower the Future of Wind Power?
The Energy Collective (Today) - Greentech Media got an early look at GE's new space frame wind turbine tower in advance of its official debut at next week’s European wind industry conference. The space frame advances the potential of GE to deliver taller towers capable of more power production at...
- Tesla Shifts Gears to Enter Utility Industry
The Energy Collective (Today) - After its launch in 2003, Tesla Motors quickly became a force to be reckoned with. With the tremendous success of the Roadster and the Model S, Tesla became known for its impressive technology in energy efficient vehicles. Now it is attempting to become a major...
- Green Bank Academy Provides Lessons Learned, Direction For States Looking To Help Finance Clean Energy
CleanTechnica (Today) - The clean energy sector, backed by innovative entrepreneurs, investors, and government policymakers, has seen enormous growth over the past 6 years. US solar power capacity recently surpassed 10 gigawatts as the price of solar panels has fallen some 75% during the past 5 years. Every...
- Electric Vehicles: Their Beauty Is In Their Future
CleanTechnica (Today) - Xyntéo’s head of innovation, Rick Wheatley, blogs on the importance of seeing the future potential in today’s innovative technology. Tesla Motors, the mercurial Silicon Valley electric car company, recently revealed that it exceeded 2013 Q4 revenue guidance considerably. Despite an array of teething issues, mostly concerning...
- Climatologist Who Predicted California Drought 10 Years Ago Says It May Soon Be 'Even More Dire'
The Energy Collective (Today) - Climate change can worsen drought in multiple ways. Climate scientists and political scientists often confuse the public and the media by focusing on the narrow question, “Did climate change cause the drought” — that is, did it reduce precipitation?read more...
- RAV4 EV Service Problems Impede Its Progress
CleanTechnica (Today) - Originally published on Gas 2. By Robyn Purchia. After nearly a decade without a pure electric vehicle in its lineup, Toyota rolled out the RAV4 EV in 2012. With battery and electric powertrain supplied by Tesla Motors, the RAV4 EV has the makings of a...
- Ukraine is about oil. So was World War I
Energy Bulletin (Yesterday) - Ukraine is a lot more portentous than it appears. It is fundamentally about the play for Persian Gulf oil. So was World War I. The danger lies in the chance of runaway escalation, just like World War I....
- Ukraine crisis shows urgency of green energy: Russian nat’l gas blackmail
Energy Bulletin (Yesterday) - The threat of economic sanctions would be more realistic if Europe did not depend so heavily on Russia for its natural gas. 40% of Germany’s natural gas and one third of Europe’s natural gas in general is imported from that country....
- Tiny Baubles Transform Eco-Hostile Laundry Washing
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - One more energy-intensive, water-consuming, polluting activity may be about to go down the drain, or at least achieve a huge environmental makeover. It’s something pretty ubiquitous: laundry washing. You may be surprised to find out that laundry is a $100 billion global industry! Since the...
- Tesla Announces Plans To Install 30 More Services Centers & Stores Around Europe, + More Superchargers
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - Editor’s Note: Unfortunetly, not many details are out yet regarding where these 30 new service centers and stores will be, but word is that Sweden, Italy, and France will get their first ones. Few details were revealed regarding the Superchargers as well. However, Elon Musk stated: “By...
- Electric Cars Will Replace Gasmobiles Because They Are “Clearly Superior” Vehicles
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - I’ve said it before, several times, but I’m not the only one: electric cars are a disruptive technology and will wipe out gasmobiles in short time for many reasons — they are simply much superior vehicles. Elon Musk knows it. Carlos Ghosn knows it. Bob...
- Microinverters Front and Center: SolarBridge Closes $42 Million Funding Round
CleanTechies (Yesterday) - The microinverter business is heating up. Installers and consumers alike are finding out that microinverter technology provides better return on investment than a string inverter. Using a conventional solar installation, any drop in a module’s performance will reduce the output of every other module in...
- Approval of Line 9B Puts Canadian Communities at Risk While Bringing Tar Sands Oil to New England's Doorstep
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - Canada’s energy and pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board, approved a pipeline project to transport tar sands eastward from Ontario to terminals just outside Montreal. This decision is a slap in the face to communities along the pipeline’s route who will bear the brunt of...
- New Bionic Leaf Could Solve Solar Energy Storage Problem
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are developing a new bionic leaf that can convert energy from sunlight into an energy-dense fuel, imitating the photosynthetic process of plants. We’ve covered the artificial leaf concept before but aside from using a cool new name (bionic leaf...
- BMW i3 Has New “OwnersChoice with Flex” Financing Option
CleanTechnica (Yesterday) - Editor’s note: As you know, I’m a fan of the BMW i3. It’s not the Tesla Model S, but it’s not supposed to be, and the price of the i3 is about half the price of the Model S. I’m happy to see that BMW...
- MiX Telematics: Global, Green, and Undervalued
Alternative Energy Stocks (Yesterday) - Tom Konrad CFA Disclosure: I am long MIXT. “The MRM market has been growing quickly, and does not look like it will slow down.” So says Clem Driscoll, President of C.J. Driscoll & Associates, a leading consultant for the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) industry. One beneficiary...
- SolarCity's Networked, Grid-Ready Energy Storage Fleet
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - SolarCity, the country’s biggest solar PV installer, and Tesla Motors, the country’s biggest electric vehicle maker (and soon to be the country’s biggest advanced battery manufacturer), could also soon become the utility industry’s worst nightmare.read more...
- Zimtu Capital Analyst Says All Roads Lead to the Athabasca Basin
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - Derek Hamill completed his Master of Financial Analysis and Professional Accounting at La Trobe University, a leading Australian academic institution. Between degrees, Hamill worked for several years as an investment executive for ScotiaMcLeod, a leading Canadian wealth-management firm.read more...
- Over Oil Industry Objections, EPA Sets Lifesaving New Standards for Gasoline and Tailpipe Pollution
The Energy Collective (Yesterday) - When I worked for the City of New York, I often asked people what they felt was the worst environmental problem. Many said tailpipe pollution. Emissions from the tailpipes of cars and trucks seemed particularly insulting because tailpipes seemed to be spewing black smoke just...
- Iowa Eyes Concrete to Blow Past 27% Wind Power Mark
CleanTechnica (2 days ago) - We were just talking about GE’s new taller wind turbine tower, which will hit the market next week at a whopping 139 meters, when along comes the latest American Wind Association wind power report showing that the great state of Iowa now gets about 27...
- H2HyPod claims to have the best hydroxy technology in the world
PESWiki (2 days ago) - With seven years of development, over 400 installations, reams of data, international patents awarded, for protection in 147 countries, inventor James Culture says their H2HyPod is ready for international roll-out in a major way. Typical mileage improvement is 35% but in some cases is much...
- Generator-Motor.info for Generating Electricity
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Good news from Ukraine! Three inventors there have teamed up to develop and patent a very simple energy generation system modality that consumes less power when the load increases. They say it can be used in stand-alone power supply systems. (PESWiki; March 2, 2014)...
- Ukranian Scientists made Tesla Generator
PESWiki (2 days ago) - ''Even better news from Ukraine.'' (Free Energy Blog; March 3, 2014)...
- Jovan Marjanovic book pre-dates Generator-Motor.info
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Jovan Marjanovic has explained its work in details in his book and proposed some modifications like using three coils instead of two coils as used in original Phi generator. (Free Energy Blog; March 3, 2014)...
- LPP Tungsten electrodes ready mid-May; Plan to achieve commercial fusion to lower electricity costs 10x
PESWiki (2 days ago) - The tungsten electrodes needed for LPP’s next set of experiments are rolling forward. A crowdfunding effort, with 60 volunteers so far, is planned to kick off on Earth Day, April 22. (Free Energy Blog; March 4, 2014)...
- Hendershot Fuelless Generator Guide -- Do You Know of any Successful Replications?
PESWiki (2 days ago) - I doubt any of you have not seen advertisements for this system that allegedly powers a bank of lights then a flat screen TV. While it is likely a scam, we're asking for evidence for successful replications. (PESWiki; March 5, 2014)...
- What They Know / How the Earth Works
PESWiki (2 days ago) - Intro video by Suspicious0bservers.org (Free Energy Blog; March 5, 2014)...
- Boeing antigravity propulsion comes out of the closet
PESWiki (2 days ago) - As part of the effort, which is being run out of Boeing’s Phantom Works advanced research and development facility in Seattle, the company is trying to solicit the services of a Russian scientist who claims he has developed anti-gravity devices in Russia and Finland. (Free...
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