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Thinner, better, already sold out—the new new thing in solar?

Solar energy can seem like a green tech fantasy. Energy free for the collection. Found in some of the emptiest spots on earth: deserts, parking lots, urban rooftops, open ocean, airplace wings, at 50,000 feet above the earth. Think about all that sunshine. And a company down...

Tags: Dr., Polymer, Global Solar Energy, CIGS, BUSINESS Global Solar, I-sol, Indium, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-26

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Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers

RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...

Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Treece and truth

Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...

Tags: Treece

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

What do you believe, your eyes or somebody's numbers?

There is no disagreementThere really never was. Scientists are in agreement that global climate change is happening you may have noticed the conferences.We will always have idiots. It's just that some of them happen to own media and political parties or are making way too much money with...

Tags: climate change, mankind

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Why on ZDnet?

I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...

Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Cleantech draws more investments in Q3

Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...

Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...

Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

Global warming denial alert: human activities cancelling nature's cooling trend

I do my part but...For reasons of a smaller electric bill I conserve energy. I also recycle at work. But change my behavior to accommodate wackos? I don't think so. What gets me is the Environmentally Retarded, to whom Global Warming is a religion, only blame the Capitalist system in...

Tags: Obviously IT, global warming, kilometer

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet

Blog posts 2009-08-20

One more voice AGAINST geo-engineering to combat global warming

Fuller, you are spamming ZDNet.Every day your alarmist short blurbs, without any intelligent analysis, becomes boring.Have you ever considered taking a real job?Oh, btw, what happened to your standard 'disclaimer'? Wrong on that also?And what is it, global warming or climate change? You keep on flip flopping.Seriously, get an honorable...

Tags: geo-engineering, global warming, everyday live, green technology, too-often

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

New and better solar cells

New and better solar cellsIf enough new and better monkeys flew out of my buttthey could make wind power work, provided they didn't need to eat, breath, and crap.If if if if if if.How about a solar tech that doesn't require the mining and use or production of heavy metals...

Tags: solar cell, environment

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

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

"Cooling trend" gets hot reactions

I blog about global warming and the reactions are hot. One commenter thinks I want everybody to believe in global warming so green tech will get more investment. My selfish reason for liking green tech: it is more likely more birds and trees will survive and I find...

Tags: Green Technology, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?

Swedish engineers did some calculating on whether it would work to use two of the more popular approaches to curtailing global warming. They looked at carbon capture or sequestration and more nuclear power plants. Capturing carbon is pointless they say. As for nuclear: it's a heat disaster,...

Tags: Capture, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-13