CLIMATE - Department Of Defense Launches Attack On Climate Change
The U.S. Department of Defense has been among the most aggressive leaders on climate change action under the Obama Administration, and it has just stepped it up to the next level. Last week, DoD released the new Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, its blueprint for addressing the effects of climate change in a national security context. That includes global impacts such as geopolitical consequences, conflict acceleration and competition for foo .. ...
ECONOMICS - Study Finds Fuel Economy Standards More Cost Effective Than Fuel Tax
According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study, government-set fuel economy standards, which have been practiced for many years, are 6 to 14 times less effective than a fuel tax for reducing gasoline usage.ZiS-110V. Art Konovalov / Shutterstock.comThe concept of fuel efficiency standards ensures that new vehicles are more efficient, but, what about the rest of the cars on the road? The objective of fuel economy standards is t .. ...
ENERGY - 100%, 99%, 80%, 70% - How Much Can/Should The World Be Powered By Renewable Energy?
How much can/should the world be powered by renewable energy? Or how about your country or region? A number of studies have tackled this question, and I recently realized that we hadn't stuck them all together in one easy-to-find place. So, I created this page specifically for that purpose: 70%, 80%, 99.9%, 100% Renewables - Study Central.Keep that page bookmarked - it will be updated with new major studies on this topic as they are produced. .. ...
ENERGY - All New January US Electrical Generating Capacity Came From Renewable Sources
Solar panel, wind turbine & globe via ShutterstockA new report from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects announced that 1,231 megawatts (MW) of new in-service electrical generating capacity came online in January 2012, and all of it came from a collection of wind, solar, and biomass sources.The January numbers represent a nearly three-fold increase in new renewable energy capacity compared to the same tim .. ...
ENERGY - Fully Sustainable Global Energy Supply By 2050 (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's another plan to power the world 100% with renewable energy - wind, water, sunlight, and biomass:Fully Sustainable Global Energy Supply By 2050 (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/25/fully-sustainable-global
ENERGY - Over 3 Million Clean Energy Jobs In The U.S. In 2012 (Infographic)
The impressive growth of the U.S. clean energy industry continued in 2012, resulting in postings for over 3 million clean energy job openings.The great infographic posted below details some of the specifics of this impressive growth.Source: Solar Power World Over 3 Million Clean Energy Jobs In The U.S. In 2012 (Infographic) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our .. ...
ENERGY - Powering The World With Wind, Water, & Sunshine (VIDEO)
Continuing on with our daily series on Leonardo ENERGY videos, here's one on a plan to power the world 100% with renewable energy - wind, water, and sunlight (WWS):Powering The World With Wind, Water, & Sunshine (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or just visit our homepage .. ...
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ENERGY - Saudi Arabia Reveals Plans For 54 GW Of Renewable Energy
Saudi Arabia has just released a white paper for its K.A.Care program, detailing the competitive procurement process (CPP) for the ambitious plan. As it currently stands, the program aims to develop and install 54 GW of renewable energy in the kingdom by 2032, including 41 GW of solar power. The other 13 GW will be supplied by wind energy, geothermal, and waste-to-energy power plants.The plan is for 5.1 GW of renewables by 2018, 23.9 GW by 202 .. ...
ENERGY - The World's 25 Biggest Oil Companies
Not just the usual suspects; state-owned giants dominate this lis ...
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ENERGY - Those Australian Electricity Price Increases We Keep Hearing About (Charts)
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy:Australian consumers have been buffeted by some hefty electricity price rises in the last few years, and face yet more in the next couple of years. But how long will it last, and what sort of price will householders be facing in 2020?It's not the sort of question - or time horizon - that customers would normally be worried about, unless you are considering the value of producing your own en .. ...
MUSIC - Ten Billionaires Of The Music Business
They may not all own record companies, but each of these billionaires has a hand in music ...
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SCIENCE - "Radically New" Plasmonic Solar Cell Grows From A Forest Of Gold Nanorods
Researchers at the University of California - Santa Barbara are pretty excited over this new solar cell they've been working on, and who can blame them? For the past 100 years or so, everybody's been tinkering around with solar energy conversion based on semiconductors and meanwhile a promising new field called plasmonics has been bubbling up under the surface. The research team has developed a free-floating plasmonic device that produces hydr .. ...
SCIENCE - Graphene Breakthrough - One Photon Can Be Converted Into Multiple Electrons
A new discovery by researchers at the ICFO has revealed that graphene is even more efficient at converting light into electricity than previously known. Graphene is capable of converting a single photon of light into multiple electrons able to drive electric current. The discovery is an important one for next-generation solar cells, as well as other light-detecting and light-harvesting technologies.A paradigm shift in the materials industry is .. ...
SOLAR - 35X Increase For Solar In Argentina
Currently Argentina is far behind in solar capacity with only about 10 MW in operation. That could change soon due to plans to expand by up to thirty-five times. Solar farms are being planned in the western parts of the country, where there is approximately twice was much solar radiation as in Germany, the world's number one solar market.There is a great deal of solar radiation in the western areas waiting to be utilized.Argentina has a goal o .. ...
SOLAR - Solar & Wind Cutting Fossil Fuels Off At The Kneecaps In Coming Years In Australia
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy:The story that has really captured the imagination of our readers this year has been on the Bloomberg New Energy Finance analysis that demonstrated that wind energy was already cheaper than new coal and gas plants in Australia, and solar PV was not all that behind.Because of that interest, we've decided that today's Graph of the Day should be another set from the BNEF report, because they d .. ...
SOLAR - Solar Frontier Predicts 50% Cut In Price Of Its Thin-Film Solar Modules
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy:Showa Shell, the Japanese subsidiary of global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, has predicted that its solar unit Solar Frontier will be able to cut production costs of its solar modules by half in the next few years as it seeks to emerge as one of the world's biggest solar module manufacturers.Some pundits are convinced that the dramatic price plunge that has accompanied a glut in solar panels .. ...
SOLAR - Solar PV Demand Falls Short Of 30 GW Mark
The upcoming NPD Solarbuzz Marketbuzz report set to be released in March reports findings that solar photovoltaic (PV) demand for 2012 only reached 29 GW, an increase of only 5% year-over-year compared to 27.7 GW in 2011.Sadly, 2012 is the first year in a decade that year-over-year market growth in the PV industry has been less than 10%."During most of 2012, and also at the start of 2013, many in the PV industry were hoping that final PV deman .. ...
SOLAR - Solar-powered cell towers lead rural electrification
Powering off-grid mobile phone towers with renewable energy also brings electricity to many areas in dire need of power ...
SOLAR - Sunpower Providing Solar Energy For New SF 49ers Stadium
Even though the 2013 National Football League season is about six months away, one team is driving the ball down the field in helping to boost the changing image of spectator sports as a champion in environmental sustainability.Sunpower is helping recent Super Bowl Finalists, the San Francisco 49ers, by providing a solar panel system for their new stadium.San Francisco 49ers vs. New England Patriots via ShutterstockThe new system at 400 kW is .. ...
SUSTAINABILITY - Corporations Can No Longer Sleepwalk Towards Sustainability
By Comly Wilson, Research Associate at CleanEdisonImage Credit: Global 100The forces of sustainable consciousness and resource scarcity are making environmental responsibility a necessity, not just a strategy, for major corporations. It is becoming increasingly difficult to simply re-brand products to be green as the public gradually becomes more wary of "greenwashing" and starts to pay attention to corporate responsibility indices, such as In .. ...
TECH - 3D printing is fun and futuristic, but how will it "revolutionise the solar energy industry"?
Writing in the Guardian, John Licata claims that 3D printed solar cells are "More efficient, less complex and cheaper, 3D solar cells can also capture more sunlight than conventional PV models." Why ...
TECH - Bringing a little cheer to energy innovation
There's glitter all over the carpet in the hallways at the Gaylord National Resort, a sprawling hotel that sits on the shores of the Potomac River just south of Washington, D.C. It's definitely not from the thousands of energy geeks that are arriving at the hotel on Sunday night to kick off several days of discussions and meetings about next-generation energy technology for the ARPA-E Summit. It's the aftermath from thousands of preteen girls, de ...
TECH - Digital lighting slowly claiming a spot in the Internet of Things
The digital lighting industry is in a quandary. Prices for LED lights are falling quickly, making the technology more compelling to customers, particularly owners of office buildings and warehouses. But the price decline has come at the expense of manufacturers who have over built production capacity and now need to idle some of their equipment. This imbalance of supply and demand is also happening at a time when market researchers are expecting ...
TECH - LEDs Without Heavy Metals, Silicon Nanocrystal Multicolor LEDs Created
LEDs that are completely free of heavy metals have been successfully created by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto. The highly efficient and heavy-metal-free LEDs were made by utilizing silicon nanocrystals that are only a few nanometers across. The silicon-based light-emitting diodes (SiLEDs) should eventually be able to take the place of any currently used LEDs, but without having the same envi .. ...
TECH - News and the new amplification reality
A few days ago, in wake of the lively war of words between Elon Musk's Tesla & The New York Times, my colleague Mathew Ingram pointed out that thanks to the Internet and the social web, everyone from companies to governments are acting like media entities and spreading their messages, bypassing the messengers - aka the media outlets. Given that, one might ask: who needs traditional media then? I tried to help answer that question in my post ...
TECH - What Do AT&T And Big Oil Have In Common?
By Zana Nesheiwat, Program Associate at Fuel Freedom FoundationBig Oil via ShutterstockWhen's the last time you made a long-distance phone call? Do you even notice the difference between local and long-distance charges? Before 1984, only AT&T could sell long-distance telephone service, making a long-distance call to your great aunt cost $3.00 a minute. That monopoly and unfair pricing ended when a federal judge required AT&T to grant a .. ...
TECH - When will we see more billion-dollar health tech companies?
Investors may be funneling millions of dollars into digital health but they're not as optimistic as entrepreneurs in thinking that billion-dollar valuations are on the horizon for the current crop of health tech startups. A recent survey from InterWest Partners compared the perspectives of health tech entrepreneurs and investors on areas of opportunities and challenges in health care information technology. When asked "which companies are most l ...
URBAN - Deconstructed 1940s Citroën H Van Transformed into a New Parklet for San Francisco
Read the rest of Deconstructed 1940s Citroën H Van Transformed into a New Parklet for San FranciscoPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: bikes, citroen, Citroen van, Cycle Club San Francisco, cycling, micro park, mini park, Parklet, parklet program, parklets, public space, Rapha Cycle Club, rebar, rebar studio, San Francisco, San Francisco Marin .. ...
URBAN - House built from shipping containers designed in Denmark, assembled in China
Here is a twist on the usual situation, a product going in the opposite direction ...
URBAN - Modularflex Disaster Shelters Pop Up Where They Are Needed Most
Anyone who has ever struggled to pitch a tent can attest to how difficult it can be to assemble a temporary shelter. Add the stress of a natural calamity, and every second saved by quick and simple construction is a blessing aided by the genius of good design. Argentine architects Matias Alter and Matias Carrizo have created the Modularflex, a foldable disaster housing unit that packs flat and can be assembled in about half an hour.Read the rest ...
URBAN - Wood construction tries to grow up
Funny thing how the concrete industry complains about the safety of six-story wood buildings, but as the Toronto Star reports, there are a lot of advantages ...
WATER - Fish gill-inspired water management system wins student design contest
The biomimetic design could increase water delivery efficiency, decrease water-borne illness, and lower wastewater operating costs ...
WIND - Where Do I Put My Offshore Wind Farm?
By Chelsea DrenickOffshore wind farm via ShutterstockAt the end of 2012, the European market boasted a cumulative 4,995 MW capacity from 55 offshore wind farms and the United States market boasted a total capacity of zero. As disheartening as that might sound to American renewable energy proponents, it looks like our first offshore wind farms are on the horizon (pun intended), as the production tax credits were extended, along with DOI's Burea .. ...
WORK - Accidents waiting to happen: Insider knowledge
Workplace accidents must be treated like any other source of knowledge if companies and their employees are to learn from such incidents and prevent future accidents from occurring, experts say ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130225092049.ht
WORK - Sorry, Yahoo!; working from home makes more sense than ever
Management often has a problem when people want to work from home, but the advantages for everyone are significant ...
WORK - Yahoo to homeworkers: Get back to the office. Now.
The internet company thinks it is better if people work at the office rather than on the internet. Is this a good idea ...
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