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- Money, Politics and Energy: Menage That Screws the American Consumer
- I don't think anybody is naive enough these days to think that the future of green tech or alternative energy is based on fair competition in some imaginery free marketplace. Don't we all know that economic competition in America, and elsewhere, is heavily weighted in favor of those with...
- Tags: Green Technology, Dollar, NREL, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to switchgrass?
- It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood taller than the settlers and their covered wagons. It once nourished millions of American bison. ...
- Tags: Corn, NREL, Government, Web Site Development, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green
- Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...
- Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
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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
- Come 2010, will there be enough renewable energy to switch on your lights?
- Here's some irony for you. There's a new report out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL that suggests demand for renewable energy will outpace supply by the year 2010. (The report carries the scintillating title of "A Preliminary Examination of the Supply and Demand Balance for Renewable Energy.") ...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, MWh, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Sunday is sun day for young engineers and designers
- Today judges begin their work in the third Solar Decathlon. There are twenty college and unversity teams entered including competitors from Germany, Spain, Canada and Puerto Rico. Judges will get their initial tour of each entry. The picture shows one of the entries, this from University...
- Tags: Point, Team Management, Professional Development, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Career, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-14
- Solar parking lots, the specs
- This goes with the Envision CEO interview story. First: the Kyocera solar grove canopy above their San Diego headquarters parking lot: SYSTEM SIZE:235 kW AC CEC279 kW Solar Modules: 1400 KC-187GS200 KC-88CGSI Inverters: 2 SMA American Sunny Central SC125U Batteries:None Charge Controllers: None...
- Tags: Colorado, Mph, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Global warning on global warming: U.S. must help out
- Monday there was an international conference on global warming. It happened in New York, hosted by the United Nations. The U.S. was represented at the event by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She said "Put simply, the world needs a technological revolution. Existing energy technologies...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Boosting solar energy plants efficiency
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a new way to make solar collector systems more energy efficient. The theoretical overlay photographic TOP technology developed at Sandia uses mirrors to focus radiation from the sun as a source of heat for power generation. In fact, they've created a mirror alignment...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-05-19
- Algae to fuel our cars?
- Several teams of U.S. researchers are working on the idea of building algal farms to produce hydrogen for the fuel cells that will power our cars in a decade or two. According to ScienCentral News, we generate today ten million tons of hydrogen. But by re-engineering algae at the molecular...
- Tags: hydrogen
- Blog posts 2005-09-10
- Start-up drills for oil in algae
- Start-up drills for oil in algaeThis is really an old ideaStarted with research by the Dept. of Energy back the late 70's and 80's with oil producing algae. One study at UNH concluded we could grow our entire oil transportation needs by taking over 15,000 square miles (about 10%)...
- Tags: desert, oil, acre, farmer
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
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