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Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?

Emerging Energy Resrearch's new report says the carbon sequestration tech will get serous attention this year and may be at significant scale by 2016. The petrochemical industry is very interested in carobn sequestration as a way of making their products and processes produce less green house gas. EER...

Tags: Coal, Carbon Dioxide, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Economic problems forestalling alternative energy growth?

The folks at EER are tracking the effects of the economic dyspepsia on alternative energy projects around the globe. Their conclusion: some slowdown in 2009, but numerous projects are moving forward outside the U.S. Here the industry awaits details on a federal stimulus plan if it's enacted. ...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Geothermal Energy, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-15

What's blowin' in the wind? Alternative energy in China

A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms. EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011. As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...

Tags: China, Alternative Energy, Wind Energy, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Alternative energy still powerful, says report

Don't give up on alternative energy, says EER. They cite three long-term trends that mean a long and successful future for effective producers of electricity and energy not based on fossil fuels: "The globe is still warming, the earth’s fossil fuel resources are still being depleted, and the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Fossil Fuel, EER, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Who's tops in wind? The Spanish.

Courtesy: Iberdrola. An annually updated ranking of wind energy companies shows Iberdrola is now Numero Uno. Every year Emerging Energy Research tracks the top wind energy companies based on how much electricity they generate. Spanish-based Iberdrola is now ahead of the previous leader,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Company, Wind, Iberdrola, EER, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Additional Resources

Green shoots

I would not hazard a guess about what's happening to the storied "green shoots" in the American or global economies. There are many economists and financial "experts" hazarding widely divergent guesses already. I will guess that green technology continues to have appeal in many nations. Green shoots...

Tags: Brazil, Spain, Hydrogen, SWITZERLAND SOLAR Solar Panel Production, Oerlikon Solar, Spanish Project, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Wind dying down...for the nonce

Not surprisingly the once-booming wind industry is feeling the effects of the global economic dive. Nothing wrong with the world's supply of wind, but there is a shortage of CapEx money and capital of all kinds. Emerging Energy Research EER concludes there'll be major declines in wind energy...

Tags: Wind Energy, Emerging Energy Research, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Offshore wind, a new tack

Courtesy: Principle Power. An American company is working with a utility company in Portugal to build an offshore wind farm. That's not the news. The real news is that these turbines will be on floating platforms, not attached to the ocean floor. Principle Power PP...

Tags: Offshore, Wind Energy, Principle Power, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Greentechies smiling a little brighter today, Part Deux

Billions and billions. What good entrepreneur could ignore the sound of money pouring out of Washington D.C.? From solar to coal, the energy folks may not be dancing in the streets, but they are walking more assuredly into board rooms across the land. A Swiss-owned solar firm...

Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Carbon 2009: make or break year?

Emerging Energy Research predicts 2009 will be a crucial year for the coal industry and its move toward carbon capture technology. EER estimates that $20 billion has already been earmarked for various carbon sequestration projects. It is becoming clear to the coal industry, its utility and industrial customers...

Tags: Emerging Energy Research, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Jumble Key 2.01 (Windows)

Jumble Key definitively solves Word Jumble and Crossword puzzles. It is a powerful program, yet is quick and easy to use. Given a letter pattern, it checks all possible letter combinations with its built in dictionary and returns all valid words that it finds. For example, if you are looking...

Tags: Word, Letter, SRS1 Software, Jumble Key, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2008-12-29

I really don't want to use Windows anymore

I really don't want to use Windows anymoreThis is just not true ...[i]I'm well aware that if Linux or Mac had greater marketshare, then they would be far more vulnerable to malware attacks.[/i]It would never reach the level of Windows since both Linux and OSX don't have to contend with...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Desktops, Linux, Spyware, adware & malware, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, ClamWin, Microsoft Windows, virus, malware

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Diet Sleuth 5.2.0 (Windows)

Diet Sleuth is a nutritional database and personal health logbook. Diet Sleuth allows you to keep track of what foods you eat each day, and their nutritional value. For each day, you select the foods you have eaten, and the number of servings of each. Diet Sleuth will automatically calculate...

Tags: Food, Microsoft Windows, Black Cat Systems, Diet Sleuth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-11-03

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...

Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Wind is picking up speed

A study coming from Emerging Energy Research projects continued expansion of the wind energy market. It's being led by installations in China and the U.S. says EER. Global investment in wind energy was about $8 billion in 2004, now its expected to hit $18...

Tags: Turbine, Supplier, Wind Energy, Oil Future, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study

Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. ...

Tags: Offshore, Turbine, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-30

U.S. has more sun but Europe has more solar power...for now

Courtesy EER. A new study of the Concentrated Solar Power industry shows Europe to be far ahead, with major growth in the U.S. a couple years away. Emerging Energy Research found several reasons for the growth on Concenrtated Solar Power...but first a brief explanation....

Tags: Solar Energy, Europe, Chip, CSP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Which way is the wind blowin' ?

The folks at Emerging Energy are looking at the year past and the year to come. Here's their optimistic take on what's up with carbon dioxide emissions and carbon footprint reduction: "Recently, the EU acted to commit to 20% CO2 reductions by 2020. Europe is...

Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, European Union, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Mapping where the solar action is

This map is from EER with notations showing where there's use of Concentrated Solar Power, both current and planned. The darker the red, the higher the level of available solar energy. The U.S. and Africa appear to be particularly bright spots for solar use. ...

Tags: Map, Telecom & Utilities, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-12

U.S. leads in a green tech besides geothermal

Charts provided by EER. Because the U.S. energy use is so immense, it sometimes seems the whole country runs on fossil fuels. But t'ain't so. The U.S. is big in using geothermal energy. While much of Europe is looking to biodiesel, the...

Tags: Green Technology, Harry Fuller, Management, Spain, Strategy, U.S.

Blog posts 2007-12-12