Solar installers and enthusiasts, this is a new tool to identify the shading pattern of a location. The Solmetric SunEye is a hand held electronic device that instantly allows users to assess total potential solar energy given the site-specific shading of a particular site. It provides data in many different formats and can export images …
The Environment News Service reports that the Bush Administration has proposed revisions to air regulations that force power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to install modern air pollution controls when they expand operations. The administration said the proposal would accelerate investment in cleaner, energy-saving technologies, but environmentalists contend that it would lead to …
The AP reports that a trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation’s reserves by more than 50 percent. Tim Haab, Environmental Economics, finds the reports "both promising and troubling. As most models of resource depletion would predict, rising …
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(Photo By: Peter Wynn Thomas) In a recent New York Times article Alexei Barrionuevo finds that despite good will towards ethanol, "success is far from assured." Even with support from large companies like GM and Ford, Lawrence J. Goldstein, president of Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, feels that there is "no way E-85 (Ethanol) can survive …
A recent article in (Reuters) reports that Japan’s Sharp Corp., the world’s biggest maker of solar cells, expects the cost of generating solar power to halve by 2010 and to be comparable with that of nuclear power by 2030, Sharp’s president said, "By the year 2010 we’ll be able to halve generation costs," Katsuhiko Machida …