From October 7-8 people from all over the nation will have the opportunity to participate in the American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour. Tour attendees will be able to participate in educational workshops and a self-guided tour of homes where participants can meet homeowners, builders, contractors, and installers to ask questions and discuss opportunities. […]
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Alternative Energy Stocks reports that though still in their infancy, microbial fuel cells are an emerging technology that show "promise to one day be the cornerstone of highly profitable companies." Microbial fuel cells (MFC’s) are biological fuel cells that use bacteria to create electric power with a sugar such as glucose being the fuel source.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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