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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

Two small countries thinking big, and green

Two small nations on opposite sides of the globe are building world class renewable energy proejcts. In Portugal they're constructing what will become, temporarily at least, the largest solar generating plant on earth. It's going into eastern Portugal near the town of Moura. This photovoltaic farm is...

Tags: Turbine, U.K., Portugal, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-08

Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?

It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...

Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!

Energy companies and entire countries seem to blow hot and cold on wind energy. Three years ago the German government's energy ministry said wind was too expensive. Better to simply conserve energy. Yet figures show Germany continues to expand its use of wind for generating electricity. ...

Tags: Maryland, Turbine, European Union, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-13

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

No clear sailing for wind power

Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...

Tags: Turbine, Farm, North Dakota, Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-02

That whooshing sound could be the start of something electric

Wind into electricity. Sounds nifty and clean. There are issues about what the blades do to flying animals. Government agencies here and in other countries are staryting to deal with that. But other serious issues have come from the engineering costs and barriers. Now a...

Tags: Turbine, Tower, Northstar, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Chasing smoke with lasers

A research team at Johns Hopkins is trying to find out about wind turbines. Not how they work, but what do they do while they're working. How do they affect wind currents and possibly even local weather? They're using smoke, a wind tunnel lasers...

Tags: Turbine, Federal Government, Laser, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-13

More oil from old wells and more electricity from the wind

Crude prices have fallen from their record levels. Apparently the wise folk on Wall Street now think Turkey will not attack ther Kurdish area of Iraq. Still, crude prices are in the $85 range and many renewable energy prodeucers think they can compete as long as oil is...

Tags: Turbine, Oil, General Electric Co., Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Woooooosh

Wind. Air moving energetically across the face of the Earth. Air moving sailing ships, turning windmills, forming sand into dunes, snow into drifts. Now it's wind as source of electricity. Needless to say green tech uses of wind are far advanced in countries other than in the...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Additional Resources

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...

Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Video: Green tech: The disconnect

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to me about whether IT managers will continue putting capital behind green tech if the economy continues to slow down. I add that there is currently too much "green" marketing in the tech industry, and question the effectiveness of those campaigns. The other big question:...

Tags: Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Lawson Q109: 'sloppy execution'

Harry Debes, CEO at Lawson Software doesn't mince his words. So when the company announced its missed Q1 fiscal 2009 results PDF yesterday it came as no surprise that during the earnings call he had this to say about the way the company performed: ...some of this was sloppy...

Tags: Revenue, Lawson Software Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Greentech Investing: Not So Fast

There's an inevitable slowdown in venture capital investing and that's not good news for Silicon Valley nor the Cleantech start-ups. Last quarter VC activity was about one-third of the same quarter last year. While economists claim there's plenty of capital around, the investments being made are more cautious....

Tags: Bank, Alternative Energy, American Media, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Go West young IT worker!

Go West young IT worker!Greeley, not SouleNo one disputes that Greeley made the phrase famous:Greeley's editorial in the New York Tribune in 1865 was addressed specifically to young civil servants in Washington, D.C. who were complaining that the government didn't pay them enough, given the high cost of living in...

Tags: Soule, Greeley

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Should engineers fix climate change?

Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...

Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!

While the banking community chews its nails, and worries about golfing fees, there are some corporations licking their chops. And sharpening those drill bits. The American offshore oil drilling moratorium expires at the end of this month. There'll be no attempt to revive any part of it....

Tags: Offshore, Gasoline, Outsourcing, Banking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-24

News to know: Google and T-Mobile on G1; OpenWorld; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: T-Mobile G1: Specs, pricing breakdown UPDATED: T-Mobile, Google, HTC unveil G1 (with hands-on pics) Ed Burnette: Google releases Android 1.0 SDK Hands-On with...

Tags: Google Inc., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-24