Archive for July, 2009
Clean Green Breeze in Santa Monica
Editor’s Note: This is the first post from Nevres Cefo, author of Two Cents Per Mile: Will President Obama Make it Happen with the Stroke of a Pen? For more information, please visit his website.
I am thrilled, not just about all of the current green action, activism, and blogging…but also the real life examples of [...]
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Biofuel Oasis: Empowering Alternative Fuel Use
Running your car on biodiesel fuel is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint. BioFuel Oasis, a women’s collective/owned business in Berkeley, offers not only fuel, but a level of expertise and service you haven’t experienced in a fuel transaction in years.
Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, normally from soybeans. You can grow the [...]
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Q & A With OriginOil CEO Riggs Eckelberry
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Earlier this week we covered the announcement that OriginOil had created a Live Extraction process for converting algae to oil coined, ‘milking’. This is just one of several big breakthroughs the company has had during the past year so I decided to catch up [...]
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DOE Releases Eagerly Awaited Loan Guarantee Solicitations
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced yesterday that the Department of Energy will provide up to $30 billion in loan guarantees for renewable energy projects. The announcement corresponded with the release of two new loan guarantee solicitations funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and through 2009 appropriations. The long-awaited [...]
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Spire Delivers Turnkey Solar Module Manufacturing Line to Sova in India
BEDFORD, MA — July 30, 2009 — Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules, and solar systems worldwide, today announced that it has delivered a PV module assembly line to Sova Power Limited (“Sova”) located in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. [...]
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Western geopower Obtains US$1.35 Million Increase to Secured Loan … – Market Wire (press release) (press release)
Western geopower Obtains US$1.35 Million Increase to Secured Loan …Market Wire (press release) (press release)Western geopower Corp. is a renewable energy company dedicated to the development of geothermal energy projects for the delivery of clean, sustainable, …
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Hot rock drilling planned for Koroit – Warrnambool Standard
Hot rock drilling planned for KoroitWarrnambool StandardMB Century is one of the largest and most experienced drilling contractors with more than 50 years experience serving the oil, gas and geothermal energy …
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Shaquille O’Neal Helps to Debut the World’s First E-Fuel MicroFueler
Who needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you. GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler was in the home of none other than basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, who lives in Pacific Palisades [...]
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Clean Fuels Foundation Launches Florida FFV Awareness Project
A national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) was officially launched in Orlando, Florida today at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit. The project is a cooperative effort between key Florida state government interests, gasoline/E85 distributors, the ethanol industry, and several nonprofit environmental and energy advocacy groups.
Ironically, Florida has one of the largest [...]
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BMW Electric i-Project City Car… Due 2012
BMW’s new City EV is to be a four seater that is even shorter than the other i-Project BMW offering; the electric Mini Cooper. That’s hard to imagine from this picture; this car looks more sedan sized. Electricity will be stored in a water-cooled lithium-ion battery pack that is expected to provide a 100-mile range.
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San Jose Leading Electric Vehicle Charge
Editor’s Note: John Gartner is Editor in Chief of Matter Network and an Industry Analyst at Pike Research
While San Francisco and Portland are each publicly claiming they’ll have the best electric vehicle networks in place in their cities, San Jose may be have made the most progress.
The city of San Jose has installed 7 charging [...]
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Study: Raising Price of Driving Is Key To Reducing GHG Emissions
Buying a hybrid or electric car might allow you to reduce your personal carbon footprint, but any gains achieved by adopting new vehicle or fuel technologies in [...]
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Confusion Over MPG Ratings for Electric Cars
“What will fuel-economy numbers look like on the window stickers of electric vehicles coming to the US market next year?” asks Paul Weissler, in his recent article for the Society of Automotive Engineers. Trying to find the answer could short-circuit your brain.
The big numbers on the window sticker for BMW’s Mini E—currently in [...]
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Toyota Plans a Subcompact Hybrid
Toyota plans to launch a new $16,000 subcompact hybrid, according to a report in Japan’s Asahi newspaper. The car, expected in late 2011, will use the platform and engine of the Yaris subcompact—but will feature a unique name, design, and a hybrid system that is more cost-competitive than the company’s other hybrid models. The [...]
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US Wind Industry Goes Against Expectations, Installs 1.2 GW in Q2
The U.S. wind energy industry installed 1,210 megawatts (MW) of new power generating capacity in the second quarter, bringing the total added this year to just over 4,000 MW – an amount larger than the 2,900 MW added in the first six months of 2008, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) found in its second [...]
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PSE&G’s 80-MW Solar 4 All Program Approved
PSE&G has received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to invest US $515 million in 80 megawatts (MW) of solar projects, doubling the state’s solar capacity. Under an agreement reached in its Solar 4 All filing, the utility expects to complete the installations by the end of 2013.
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Solarfun Receives 14.2 MW Module Order
Solarfun Power has received a 14.2-megawatt (MW) module order from Nobility Solar Projects for delivery during the second half of 2009. Nobility, a distributor of solar products in Eastern Europe, is Solarfun’s distribution partner in the region.
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Green energy research developing geothermal energy – eNewsWire (press release)
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Green energy research developing geothermal energyeNewsWire (press release)Magma also owns a geothermal power plant in the US state of Nevada. Geysir Green Energy, a partner of Asbru in Iceland, made an agreement with Magma Energy …
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Geothermal energy companies in Iceland and in Canada become partners – IceNews
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Geothermal energy companies in Iceland and in Canada become partnersIceNewsMagma Energy owns a geothermal power plant located in Nevada in the United States. Magma is also involved with other geothermal operations and projects in …
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La eólica en China – China establece precios de referencia para la … – REVE – Regulación Eólica con Vehículos Eléctricos
La eólica en China – China establece precios de referencia para la …REVE – Regulación Eólica con Vehículos EléctricosGenerating geothermal energy requires special geological features like volcanos and hot springs. The drawbacks of nuclear power and dangerous spent fuel are …
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) – Pumps & Systems
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)Pumps & SystemsThe proposed 2000 MW of additional green energy will comprise 800 MW of wind power, 600 MW from clean coal ventures, 500 MW of geothermal energy, …
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Nissan Forest Air-Conditioning System Changes Driver Brain Acitivity
Those folks at Nissan have been keeping us busy lately, but the latest development really is a first – an air-conditioning system specifically designed to mess with our brains!
Earlier this week the Japanese number three announced the development of a new “Forest AC” air conditioning system, “which systematically controls cabin temperature, ventilation, aroma and humidity [...]
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New Lithium-Air Battery Has Massive Storage Capacity
A team of Japanese scientists have developed a new type of lithium-air battery cell with an ultra-large capacity, and say that it holds great potential for the next-generation of electric cars.
Researchers at the country’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) predict that at a filling station, the driver of a vehicle [...]
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Nissan Shows Off New Zero Emission Electric Car Technology
Nissan has unveiled the technology platform of its eagerly anticipated all-electric car, scheduled to be revealed next Sunday prior to going on sale in Japan and the US in next year.
The new kit was debuted on a Tiida-based prototype, which features an in-house developed electric motor capable of delivering 107bhp and 206lb ft of torque. [...]
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