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IEEE Spectrum: Biofuels Aren't Really GreenBoth the biofuel and solar scenarios are carbon neutral by definition—solar for obvious reasons, biomass because carbon emitted in combustion is reabsorbed when plants regrow. (Admittedly, biofuels are carbon neutral only if crops are planted in existing tilled fields and the emissions connected ...
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Report: Solar Electricity Cost Likely to Fall 50% in 2009 -- Seeking AlphaBy Ucilia Wang The cost of solar electricity is likely to drop by 50 percent in 2009 from the previous year due largely to a big fall in solar panel prices, said New Energy Finance Monday. The 50 percent drop refers to what's commonly called the "levelized cost of electricity," or the cost ...
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India to Spend $900 Million on Solar - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comIndia to Spend $900 Million on Solar Ending months of speculation about exactly what it was planning to do to boost the use of renewable sources of energy, India said this week that it will spend about $900 million on solar energy. The Indian cabinet approved a plan on Thursday that sets ...
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Green jobs news roundup | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThe latest green jobs news from around the web including an extra benefit of green jobs training and a roadmap for green collar jobs in New York City. A bevy of green jobs news has made headlines over the past week. In fact, there’s been so much news that I couldn’t pick just one or two to ...
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Largest solar panel plant in US rises in Fla. - Yahoo! NewsFor nearly a year, construction workers and engineers in this sleepy Florida town of citrus trees and cattle farms have been building the nation's largest solar panel energy plant. Testing will soon be complete, and the facility will begin directly converting sunlight into energy, giving Florida ...
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Could Solar Roadways power the U.S.? | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThere is no question that the United States is blessed both with some of the world's best solar resources and the largest highway network in the world. Put two and two together and you may just have the solution to America's energy problem. At least that's what Solar Roadways inventor Scott ...
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EnergyWorks Community Relations Blog: Friedman Has China Chasing the Wrong GreenWhen it comes to China, the US, climate change and Copenhagen, Reuters picked up EnergyWorks CR's take last week. Specifically, with China's economic qualms and the US facing domestic political opposition, both countries are making a lot of noise to divert from their lack of action on climate ...
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Dr. Ken Yeang – The Man Who Greens The High-RiseDr. Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist who has been designing ecological, bioclimatic and energy efficient architecture for 40 years. Beginning his architectural practice in l974, Yeang designed large scale projects, skyscrapers, and ecomasterplanning and wrote books on ...
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Arizona firm in deal to spread sun power to China -- latimes.comBUSINESS Arizona firm in deal to spread sun power to China First Solar signs a memorandum of understanding to build a 2,000-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in the Inner Mongolian desert. The project could supply enough power for 3 million homes. The sun shines nearly everywhere, ...
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Building a Green Economy: Green Jobs, Transmission Lines & Microgrids | CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.comBuilding a Green Economy: Green Jobs, Transmission Lines & Microgrids Published on August 31st, 2009 by Peter Asmus Imperial County, tucked away in the southeastern corner of California, has long suffered from perennial unemployment rates exceeding 20 percent. Yet Imperial County is also ...
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