Germany is involved in a wildly ambitious overhaul of its power system. Its official targets are to hit 35 percent renewable power by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. The Green Party […]
Why Germany is phasing out nuclear power
The Real Impact Of Loan Guarantees: ‘Solar Is Now Bankable’ And ‘Becoming Part Of A Much Broader Capital Market’
With panel prices hitting record lows and performance of projects steadily improving, solar photovoltaics have become increasingly attractive to large investors. Investment in solar has surged to unprecedented levels due to interest […]
20 Experts Who Say Drilling Won’t Lower Gas Prices
In a pretty impressive act of journalism, the Associated Press recently conducted a “statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production.” The result: “No statistical […]
From Qurayyah to Khurais: Turning Water Into Oil
Synopsis: A poignant little film about someone taking a lot of precious seawater, piping it miles into a parched desert, and forcing it into the ground. Oh, and then poking a bunch […]
Does cap-and-trade produce technological innovation?
Cap-and-trade is dead, but some folks never tire of kicking the corpse. Corpse kickers received a boost last week from a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Swear Off Subsidies To Achieve A Clean Energy Future
Green tech conferences are big on big pronouncements about paving the way to the clean energy future and Bloomberg’s confab is no different. But Liebreich seven-point plan is likely to strike some […]
NRG CEO: The energy game changer is now solar roofs (not electric cars)
About a year ago the CEO of power company NRG Energy, David Crane, said he thought that the future of the green technology industry would rest on consumers, and a big part […]
Solar Power in the Desert: MENA Update
New Hampshire, U.S.A. — Wrought with desert conditions including sand, almost no rain and very hot sun, the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region of the world has recently captured the […]
Tech Talk – going back to the first look at Saudi Arabian oil production
The United States Government has just asked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to raise the levels of its oil production this summer. Oil production is otherwise anticipated to be at some […]
Air play: Could we capture carbon from the atmosphere?
Working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1990s, Klaus Lackner had numerous interests: the behavior of high explosives, nuclear fusion, and self-replicating machine systems. At some point, he turned his […]
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