Reference
Dormann, C.F. 2007. Promising the future? Global change projections of species distributions. Basic and Applied Ecology 8: 387-397.
Background
Thomas et al. (2004) suggested that ecosystem biodiversity will decline, and many endangered plant species will disappear altogether, as a result of continued unprecedented increases in air temperature, calculating that 15-37% of the species [...]
Archive for February 6th, 2008
Predicting Species Extinctions in Response to Global Warming
Posted in Climate, Ecology, Science on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
Iceland’s Glitnir to take 40 pct in India venture
Posted in Economics on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
Iceland’s Glitnir Bank (GLB.IC: Quote, Profile, Research) will take a 40 percent stake in a geothermal energy joint venture with India’s LNJ Bhilwara group, the bank’s chief said on Wednesday. “India is a vast country and we believe there are a number of unexplored resources in geothermal (sector),” Larus Welding, chief executive of Iceland’s third-largest [...]
Global Climate Change Response Can Spur $7 Trillion in Clean Energy Investment by 2030: CERA Analysis
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Economics on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
Increasing public concerns about climate change — and its potential economic and political security consequences — are driving public policy and private investment to bring clean energy technologies from the fringes of the global energy industry to the center of activities as quickly as possible, a new analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) has [...]
Hanwei closes licensing agreement with Aerodyn
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
Hanwei Energy Services Corp. (”Hanwei” or the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement (the “Agreement”) with Aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH (”Aerodyn”), a leading international wind power engineering firm, that will further enhance its wind turbine blade production capabilities by granting Hanwei the non-exclusive right to produce two versions of Aerodyn’s aeroBlade [...]
Solar Energy’s Red Queen
Posted in Solar Energy on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
In a sense, it’s very strange that modern society struggles so much to find a source of clean and abundant energy: After all, the power in the sunlight falling on the Earth exceeds civilization’s needs by almost four orders of magnitude. If we harnessed even a tiny fraction of a percent of that total, we [...]
Flagsol Develops New Solar Collector
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-02-06 | 1 Comment »
Flagsol GmbH, a Solar Millennium technology subsidiary, has developed a new line of parabolic trough collectors. According to the company, a series of innovations means that the investment costs for solar collectors will be reduced by 15 to 20 percent in the future. The new collector has been designed by Flagsol’s engineering team in Cologne, [...]
SOLON S.p.A. to Expand in Italy
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
SOLON S.p.A., the Italian subsidiary of SOLON AG, is strengthening its position in the Italian photovoltaic (PV) market by building a new production site for solar modules in Carmignano di Brenta, Province of Padova. The new factory will have an annual capacity of 120 megawatts (MW) bringing the total production capacity of the company to [...]
EU launches ‘Clean Sky’ research project for low-carbon aircraft
Posted in CO2-Emission, Research, Transportation on 2008-02-06 | No Comments »
European Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik yesterday launched a seven-year, €1.6 billion public-private partnership aimed at helping the aviation industry to develop environmentally friendly technology.
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News: EU technology initiatives crawl one step further
Brief News:
Through the ‘Clean Sky’ Joint-Technology Initiative launched in Brussels on 5 February, industry hopes to develop [...]
