Rise & Shine: October 15, 2008
CALIFORNIA NEWS Solar Company Picture Brightens with Renewed Incentives Mountain View-based Skyline said the extension of the tax credit bodes well for the domestic PV solar market. Skyline plans to release its concentrated solar panels next ... business in Austin, from smaller solar power panels at people’s homes to the large commercial projects [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 17:08:28
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Aora Gets License for Solar Thermal Plant
Aora, a developer of applied ultra-high temperature concentrating solar power (CSP) ... , has signed Aora’s license to provide solar electricity to the national grid from its solar thermal power plant at Kibbutz Samar in Israel’s southern Arava region.This is the first such license [more...]
Date: 2009-03-06 19:36:24
California desert is hot source for renewable energy
Solar thermal energy (or CSP, 'concentrated solar power') is catching on in the U.S ... . Here's a video by Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems of what one project may look like. Geo-thermal energy also holds great potential in the valley, enough to power as many as 2 million homes [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 14:03:23
ZenithSolar To Dedicate First Solar Energy Farm in Israel
Green Prophet received a press announcement that ZenithSolar , an Israeli start-up company that will license revolutionary solar energy technologies, will be launching its first “solar farm” in April 2009 based on Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV ... cogeneration solar power system – with a full vertically integrated strategy – that can be deployed [more...]
Date: 2009-03-12 15:12:45
Executive Bonuses Based on Carbon Reduction
Tell Your Mayor To Take Action for the Environment! The pending energy bill is crucial for the future of our planet (hence, the numerous posts)! ... are used in photovoltaic concentrator technology for solar power stations. Press Release ... Efficiency For Solar Cells Achieved: 39.7% At 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 17:25:02
Utility PG&E placing bets in solar tech race
California utility PG&E is betting on both solar photovoltaic panels and concentrating solar power to lower solar electricity costs, as it also explores technologies for grid storage. [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 17:07:00
Utility PG&E placing bets in solar tech race
California utility betting on both solar photovoltaic panels and concentrating solar power to lower solar electricity costs, as it also explores technologies for grid storage. [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 16:07:00
All Star Scientist Series: The Goaltenders
Here come the goalies, scientists who seem to get everything. They have great knowledge from a plethora of subjects ... and the Last Supper. Leonardo conceptualised in his notebooks: a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and double hulled ships. Although, many of these inventions were [more...]
Date: 2009-03-13 18:35:55
OPEL Inc. Brightens Connecticut's Clean Energy Future
SHELTON, CONNECTICUT--(Marketwire - March 20, 2009) - OPEL Inc. ("OPEL"), a leading global developer and supplier of high concentration photovoltaic ( ... announced that its rooftop solar power installation - the first combined rooftop solar panel and tracker ... by the Town and an annual savings of at least US$7,000 in electricity costs is projected. The [more...]
Date: 2009-03-20 16:37:00
If Obama stops dirty coal, as he must, what will replace it? Part 2: An intro to biomass cofiring
Part 1 was an overview of the energy strategies the country needs to stop building new coal plants and start reducing emissions from existing ones, focusing on energy efficiency, wind, and concentrated solar power. Biomass cofiring ... , and fastest way to provide new renewable baseload power without having to build any new transmission [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 13:20:56
Solar Job Map on Google Earth Reveals Growth
solarjobsmap.jpg In spite of the current economic crisis, the solar energy industry is expected to boom within the next few years ... , photovoltaics/solar cells and panels, and concentrating solar power. There's also a 3-D simulation ... . So much, in fact, that Google, Navigant Consulting Inc and Solar Energy Research Education [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 11:28:40
Outstanding Nanophotonics
June 2008 was the last AG post that emphasized (Yeah, I know, you thought I was going to say ‘focussed upon’) improving solar power by the use of optics. Anywho, Future Pundit Randall Parker tells ... concentrated solar efficiency due to diffuse light caused by airborne sulfur aerosols .” Naomi [more...]
Date: 2009-03-23 16:01:15
Nuclear Power: An Indispensable Climate Change Solution
Joe Romm clarifies his position on nuclear power : Why not more than 1 total wedge of nuclear? ... or pure electric vehicles. 3 of concentrated solar thermal (aka solar baseload) – ~5000 GW peak ... An introduction to nuclear power .” Note to all: Do I want to build all those nuclear plants [more...]
Date: 2009-03-26 23:37:00
Israeli solar energy project enters farm phase
Two functioning CPV systems at Kibbutz Kvutzat Yavne ... solar power systems utilizing CPVs (concentrated photovoltaic) rather than traditional PVs (photovoltaic). Flat solar panels found atop homes encompass PVs, whereas CPVs differs in several different [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 20:00:01
Al Gore’s 5 Step Plan to Clean Energy
Al Gore introduced a five point plan that “…would simultaneously move us toward solutions to the climate crisis and the ... through the same steps: Incentives for construction of concentrating solar-thermal power plants [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:19:53
US Solar Market Has Room to Grow
The US pioneered solar in the 1950s, and was the largest market for a long time ... in each year 2005-2007. No new concentrating solar power (CSP) plants were added to our national capacity ... GW. Today’s post will discuss the whole solar market (including solar thermal) after perusing [more...]
Date: 2009-03-24 00:09:24
GreenMonk news roundup 04/01/2009
Stern: ‘Kingsnorth should be shelved’ - UK Politics, UK - The Independent Britain’s latest coal-fired power station should not be built, ... , Concentrated solar-thermal , florida , greenmonktv World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector ... and said that the new coal-fired power station proposed for Kingsnorth in Kent cannot be justified until [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 08:29:38
World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida
Originally posted at WorldChanging : Joe Romm: Concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP) is a core climate solution. It is probably the zero-carbon form of electricity with the most potential, since it can be… Full Post: World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida [more...]
Date: 2009-03-31 04:00:50
Prism Solar Looking for $150 Million For Factory Expansion
Prism Solar Technologies plans to raise at least $150 million to set up a factory at a space it recently bought in upstate New York, ... that can concentrate the sunlight onto silicon-based solar cells to improve power production ... it into a manufacturing center for making 60 megawatts of solar panels per year and a gigawatt [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 17:08:25
Hope rears its tousled head at Green Party Conference
At Green Party Conference in Blackpool. Got policy through on the financial crisis, conversed with 1000 people, ... about 2% of the world's deserts with Concentrated Solar Power installations. This is going to mean [more...]
Date: 2009-03-21 22:10:00
Study Ranks Energy Solutions
Comprehensive Stanford study shows wind and concentrating solar power to be the best choice, while corn and cellulosic ethanol are extremely damaging to the environment. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 10:12:00
Everyone Loves Solar Thermal
Douglas Fischer of The Daily Climate has a great article about the growing popularity of concentrated solar thermal plants, ... in order to make steam, which can then power a turbine. Already some 60 projects are underway around the world, which would provide more than 5,500 megawatts of power—about ten decent-sized coal plants [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 22:19:00
Concentrating Solar Power Needed For Moon Base
Nukes weigh too much to transport to the Moon for a extended living lunar base. Yet the nights get extremely cold. The US government wants to return to the Moon... [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 05:12:53
Waiting For Renewables? Wait No More.
Some of this is slightly crusty news, but it's been remarkable to watch how quickly investors are flocking to alternative-energy projects, ... to install a concentrated solar-thermal plant in the desert outside Los Angeles that would produce ... the largest nuclear plant and enough to power 850,000 homes. We've talked before about how solar [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 17:24:00
Checkin’ Up On Green Patents
IP Checkups , a Berkeley based patent analytics firm, ... used in concentrating solar thermal (CST) systems. CST systems focus sunlight using lenses, mirrors ... patents including Abengoa, Ausra, Bell Independent Power, SkyFuel, Solar Millenium and Yeda Research &amp [more...]
Date: 2009-03-19 03:01:36
Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: We’d like to axe Mark Lynas a question
Environmentalist and writer Mark Lynas reaches for the clichés .. ... also quite keen on things like offshore windfarms, concentrated solar power, geo-thermal energy [more...]
Date: 2009-03-20 16:00:47
Is Renewable Power Actually Sustainable?
Once upon a time, the automobile was actually considered a form of pollution control, ... for concentrated solar thermal plants use even fewer toxic materials than current photovoltaics do. I'll take ... of their own one day. A few examples: 1. The solar industry depends on massive volumes of silicon, which must [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 20:08:00
Engaging India on Climate
Via the Times of India, along comes the news that the state of Himachal Pradesh, just south of Kashmir, ... issuance of a solar power policy, it is clear that in India at least, the action is occurring ... concentrated costs and diffuse benefits, it makes sense politically in India, because of a changing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 00:28:09
US Scientists Say Burning Ice Could Provide Green Power
US Scientists have revealed how natural gas locked up in frozen water crystals could provide massive amounts of energy, ... s a technology we think is best avoided. The US should be focusing its efforts on concentrated solar ... BillionHow to Make Electricity From Wasted EnergyMicrosoft Looks to Cut Carbon Footprint 30% by 2012Add [more...]
Date: 2009-03-30 10:58:43
If Obama stops dirty coal, as he must, what will replace it? Part 1
A year ago I wrote a post “Old coal’s out, can’t wait for new nukes, so what do we do NOW? ... , and concentrated solar thermal, I left out one of the most crucial — biomass cofiring, which is almost ... our steadily growing demand for carbon-free power over the next decade? And to get on the 450 ppm path [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 21:09:22
Office Buildings and Commercial Properties Select Vista and LLumar Window Film
We concentrate a great deal of focus on the residential and small business clients here in Florida ... " at the forefront of awareness. Our local power companies are currently offering rebates ... buildings throughout the world . Here is an example of how prestige solar worked their magic [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 12:51:00
Ice that burns could be a green fossil fuel
by Michael Marshall Natural gas locked up in water crystals could be a source of enormous amounts of energy ... unit of energy generated. Nevertheless, burning it still releases carbon dioxide and thus drives [more...]
Date: 2009-03-27 13:47:00
Grids need to tap wind power
China’s rapidly expanding wind power industry is far outstripping the capacity of grids to distribute renewable energy to power users, ... for solar cells. Grid operators, who still rely on coal-fired power, have been reluctant to connect ... , that gap doubled in one year. “China’s wind power sector is now like a highway crowded with vehicles [more...]
Date: 2009-03-29 05:56:56
Simplifying the future
Recently - and I blame twitter for this - I’ve had really bad information overload. This should not be that much of a surprise ... all probable scenarios. 1> Solar energy is going to be very, very cheap. ( see ) 2> Industrialized economies will not be concentrated in America and Europe, and industrial wealth will move to poorer [more...]
Date: 2009-03-19 14:44:03
Typical right wingnut writing of which he knows nothing
OH geez...this guy must watch Glen Beck on FOX and believe what he sees. I don’t do this very often but I probably should ... in the streets.Electricity-power companies did not electrify farm houses in America out of their own good ... America fed by America.Nuclear Power-ALLLL of the nuclear power plants have had massive subsidies [more...]
Date: 2009-04-05 04:09:17
10 Ways to Green Your Business
Imagine asking today how the Internet affects business. It’s an absurd question, like asking how electricity changed business ... in braking a 207-ton locomotive during the course of a year is enough to power 160 homes for the same period ... the size of its bottles by 50% or more by concentrating the liquid to two and sometimes three degrees [more...]
Date: 2009-03-23 16:03:24
Book Review: “Clean Money” by John Rubino
John Rubino (of DollarCollapse and GreenStockInvesting fame) has written a great book that I want to plug ... -concentrated-consumption of those resources can have nasty political, economic and environmental side ... goes much farther. In addition to breaking down solar, wind, bio-fuels, geo-thermal and hydrogen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 18:48:47
Trash-talk
So — my head exploded about three minutes into the CNN pundit discussion of Obama’s speech; I had to turn off the TV. I’m tired of people telling me how I should feel based on the latest poll or corporate media idea. And if somebody says something that isn’t true or pitches flawed scenarios, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 03:45:48
Q&A Session
Q (Riccardo Battisti): What about assessments at wider level, e.g. Municipality or Region? Are the same tools you showed suitable and reliable? ... multiple projects applying the three-phase approach presented and mapping solar suitability and solar energy generation potential for communities and regions. Q (Chris Gueymard): I'm mostly [more...]
Date: 2009-03-27 09:54:36
In search of nature's pharmacy
How the indigenous people of Peru are growing medicinal plants to preserve their livelihoods-and their fragile ecosystems. Peruvian farmers herd llamas in high-altitude pastures near Cunurana. As traditional INCOME sources dry up, indigenous peoples are cultivating medicinal plants to make a living [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 00:36:07
The nuclear chain of command: South Africa and the Bomb
In his essay, ‘You and the Atom Bomb’, a direct reference to the nuclear arms of the ‘Cold War’ – the conflict between the Soviet Union and the ... ) from instituting a mandatory oil embargo on the apartheid regime, a move that would have crushed the energy and oil-starved government. Though it was claimed that enrichment was for energy purposes only [more...]
Date: 2009-04-07 17:12:34
The darker side of solar
You know why traditional chemical manufacturing processes are considered very energy efficient these days? ... manufacturing methods such as solar panel production, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... sustainability from products manufactured by these means," he said. Professor Gutowski said [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 18:16:09
oxfam praising biofuels
As I reported elsewhere , in January there was a high-level 'climate question time' in Leeds. The non-party politician on the panel was Martin Kirk, Oxfam's Head of UK Campaigns. Whilst he was good on several points, he alarmed me considerably when he said None of us foresaw the effects of first generation biofuels, [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 09:54:00
Has Cultural Evolution Replaced Biology?
Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over. The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens, began to dominate and reorganize the . Since that time, cultural evolution has replaced biological evolution as the driving force of change [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 08:30:00
XCel Energy to Implement “Smart Grid” in Boulder, CO
I was driving back from getting coffee this morning and I heard an NPR story about how Boulder, ... with dynamic technology that helps with real-time monitoring of power usage for both consumers ... electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid technology; battery systems; wind turbines; and solar panels [more...]
Date: 2009-03-13 19:15:21
Outside of the Vortex
Parts of Australia are experiencing unprecedented changes in temperature and rainfall patterns. These changes are associated with an unexpected phenomenon emerging in the Indian Ocean and also in the behaviour of the Antarctic Vortex combined with steadily increasing temperatures from rising greenhouse gases and the depletion of the ozone layer [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 09:56:00
Once Again, Nuclear is NOT the Solution
Sometime back I wrote a piece on the reasons why nuclear energy is not a very good solution to our energy woes, ... another approach. They are embracing global warming completely...and claiming that ONLY nuclear power ... electricity use some 40 percent. WIND: Power purchase agreements for wind power are currently [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:19:14
Green Ink: Big Biofuel and Cheap Solar
Crude oil futures rode a weaker dollar over $35 in New York; the more-active April contract is over $38, Bloomberg reports ... of getting a lot cheaper: A new report from Lux Research says solar prices will plummet this year as supply far outsrips demand. That might mean a big shakeout for lots of solar-panel makers [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 13:05:18
Does Sen. Feinstein get global warming, desertification, and California’s looming demise?
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appears to like deserts so much that she wants them to stretch from Oklahoma to California and cover one third the ... is that concentrated solar thermal power (CSP aka solar baseload aka “ The technology that will save ... planet. The AP reported Friday, “ Feinstein seeks to block solar power from desert land “ [more...]
Date: 2009-03-23 13:13:17
Sahara Solar Panels Can Power the Entire Europe
Constructing a large array of solar panels in the Sahara desert can provide enough electricity to supply all the power needs of the entire Europe, ... and concentrated solar power for north Africa… that start to compare favorably with alternative ... it needs,” Dr. Anthony Patt, a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems [more...]
Date: 2009-04-07 13:51:17
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