Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-05-07 | No Comments »
A Franco-German alternative to the Commission’s electricity market liberalisation proposal was rejected by a narrow margin yesterday (6 May) during a key vote in Parliament’s Industry Committee. MEPs also voted against a Commission substitute plan to put in place a strict regulatory regime policed by an Independent System Operator (ISO).
MEPs back EU plans to dismantle [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-05-07 | No Comments »
U.S. and European Union researchers say airline emissions of carbon dioxide are 20 percent higher than previously estimated.
Airline carbon emissions on the rise
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-05-05 | No Comments »
Proponents call it a key to Michigan’s economic future. Industry analyst Emerging Energy Research projects wind energy generation in the United States to grow nearly five-fold by 2015.
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Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-04-29 | No Comments »
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and four other public financing institutions have launched a 125 million euro fund to boost investment in clean energy projects that are to generate ‘carbon credits’ after 2012.
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Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-04-28 | 1 Comment »
Shortage and very high profit margin of global polysilicon manufacturers. While year 2007, great success of US First Solar brought a new era of Thin Film solar cell. 1.3$/wp low cost, 11% middle high efficiency, EU and US large and long term contracts, large-scale manufacturing without raw materials shortage….all these factors help First Solar achieved [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-04-08 | No Comments »
More than 160 nations agreed late Friday on the first step to drafting an ambitious new treaty on global warming after hours of haggling between rich and poor countries.
The five-day conference in Bangkok also looked for the first time to consider regulating emissions from airplanes and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-04-07 | No Comments »
Biofuel emerged as an alternative fuel to benefit the biotech companies and the trans-national corporations (TNCs) which claim that biofuel is a unique `green innovation’ of the modern technology sensitive to the environment, ecology and the poor. Refuting this TNC claim, reputed and established scientists of the world are saying that the TNC claim is [...]
Posted in Wind Energy on 2008-04-03 | No Comments »
Advances in floating platforms could take wind farms far from coasts, reducing costs and skirting controversy.
Offshore wind-farm developers would love to build in deep water more than 32 kilometers from shore, where stronger and steadier winds prevail and complaints about marred scenery are less likely. But building foundations to support wind turbines in water deeper [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-02-29 | No Comments »
In a solar-thermal trough plant, hundreds of mirror arrays like this one track the sun from east to west, concentrating sunlight onto the receiver pipe suspended above them and heating the oil within to nearly 400 °C. The captured heat can be used to produce steam and generate electricity, or it can heat large tanks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 2008-02-24 | No Comments »
Challenge X, a multi–year collegiate vehicle competition sponsored by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy, is helping students gain valuable training and is providing the industry with experienced engineers who are ready to develop the “green” vehicle technologies needed today — and tomorrow.
As the automotive industry is focusing more and more on the [...]
