Category Archives: Green

Panel that works in the dark puts solar on fast track to ubiquity

By doris | Published: April 18, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com First, the CleanTechnica item in brief: A company called New Energy Technologies has received some government funding to move forward with the development of a photovoltaic (PV) coating for windows. This is one of a host of “organic PV” and other nanoparticle technologies pursuing the promise of truly ubiquitous solar power. [...]

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Texas challenges greenhouse finding

By doris | Published: February 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com DALLAS – Gov. Rick Perry and other top Texas officials on Tuesday announced a legal challenge to the federal government’s finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous to people, claiming the ruling was based on flawed science. The EPA in December issued an “endangerment” finding about carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, [...]

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Indian tribe hopes to profit from solar energy

By doris | Published: January 13, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. – A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature’s other gifts sacred sees a brighter future for itself in solar power. The 3,000 members of the Jemez Pueblo are on the verge of building the nation’s first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land, a project that [...]

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GE to supply world’s largest wind farm

By doris | Published: December 11, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Electric said Thursday it has secured a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and provide services for what will be the world’s largest wind farm operation when completed in 2012. The conglomerate will supply 338 of its 2.5-megawatt turbines to New York-based Caithness Energy to be [...]

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‘Mad scientist’ to build greener future with ‘megacrete’

By doris | Published: October 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Spending a day with Fisk on his 18-acre work site outside of Austin, Texas is like riding a rocket blast into the future. “To be free to do what we’re doing is absolute magic,” Fisk recently told CNN. Pliny Fisk opened the non-profit Center for Maximum Potential Building (CMPB) in 1975 [...]

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Solar power outshining Colorado’s gas industry

By doris | Published: October 11, 2009

Full Story at Yahoo! News DURANGO, Colo. – The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward. For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into [...]

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GE: Solar business is our ‘next wind’

By doris | Published: September 25, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In 2011, the energy giant expects to produce solar panels made with cadmium telluride, a thin-film solar cell material, said Michael Idelchik, vice president of advanced technologies at GE Global Research at the EmTech conference here on Wednesday. The company now sells solar panels that use silicon solar cells, but its [...]

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India launches satellite for ocean study

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans. The cube-shaped Oceansat-2 will monitor the interaction between oceans and the atmosphere, as part of climate studies, according to the country’s main space agency. The satellite, launched from India’s southeast coast, carried six nanosatellites from European [...]

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Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95

By doris | Published: September 14, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com DALLAS – Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the “green revolution” who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95. Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. [...]

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