We’re nearly 20 years into celebrating World Water Day, and the issues have only grown more complex — and in many locales, more serious. The theme of the United Nation’s World Water […]
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 […]
US solar market to install 2.8 GW in 2012 on back of “historic” 2011
Having achieved a “historic” year in terms of photovoltaic installations in 2011, the U.S. solar market is estimated to be worth over US$8.4 billion. Declining system prices and improved financing options were […]
Norway’s green battery vs. hydrogen storage
According to the industry experts present at the first “Energy Storage” conference, held this week in Düsseldorf, Germany, either technology could win the race to enable Germany’s renewable energy future. “It is […]
SCIEnergy Buys Transcend Equity: Watch Out, Serious Energy
Looks like the competition in bundling building energy efficiency technology and financing in a single platform is heating up. SCIEnergy, a startup with a combo software and energy services approach to building […]
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