Tag: Clean Energy - Page 9
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US Gov Announces $50.5 Million Offshore Wind Plan
And the federal invest-a-thon in clean technologies continues -- first a smidgen for solar, then a huge boost for high speed rail, and now, a decent investment in offshore wind. The Obama administration
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Why Energy Companies Invest Next to Nothing in Innovation
Don't pay attention to those oil company ads that claim they're devoting time and resources towards working on clean energy solutions -- just look at the graph below. The chart, which Climate Crocks reminds us of today, shows just how little the energy
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DOE Launches Effort to Bring Cost of Solar Down 75% by 2020
In the days following Obama's State of the Union address, Stephen Chu took center stage in the energy arena to announce a "Sun shot" -- a government-funded effort to innovate the technology necessary
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83% of Americans Want a Clean Energy Bill Passed This Year
A new Gallup poll has revealed some pretty interesting stuff about what Americans want to see done this year, legislatin'-wise. Coming out on the very top was this little nugget: 83% of Americans want Congress to "pass an energy bill that would provide
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W. Virginia Coal Country Gets Its Largest-Ever Clean Energy Project
At the heart of philosophical debate of how we can best mobilize industry to deal with climate change lies one single dirty fuel source: coal. It provides the energy that powers the most massive
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Smart Grid by 2030: The Energy and Carbon We Could Save
You've probably heard plenty about the nation's incipient smart grid -- that futuristic-sounding thing that would transform our current one-way grid into yes, a smarter, two-way system that would better allow utilities to match supply to demand. Clean
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NFL to Offset 15,000 MW Hours Sucked Down by Super Bowl XLV
The National Football League has announced that it will be offsetting pretty much all of Super Bowl XLV's energy expenditures this year -- an amount that evidently adds up to a staggering 15,000
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Clean Energy Alone Does Not Equal Climate Action
When I wrote my reactions to Obama's State of the Union address last week, I mentioned how disappointing it was that he didn't take the chance to engage the American public on the issue of climate change. The
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Inside the Walls of Masdar, the City that Bleeds Clean Energy
Photos by Brian Merchant Masdar City is intended to be big. Big in all regards, besides population and geographical size. It's founded on a big idea; a carbon neutral oasis outside the oiliest city on Earth. It's supposed to be a big deal; a city that
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E+Co: Non-Profit Funds Sustainable Start-Ups in Developing World (Video)
Whether or not the developing world does so sustainably is one of the great questions of our era -- and the answer relies as much on its national leadership as its aspiring entrepreneurs. As such, there's a huge opportunity to
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When Your Dress Transports You, Fashion Design Morphed With Mobility (Photos)
Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW. The result are 5 concepts for future mobility
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Clean Energy Can Power the World in 20-40 Years: New Study
That's the finding of a new study just published in Energy Policy; we've already developed advanced enough technology to power the world with clean power -- it's just a matter of finding the social and political will to deploy it. Stanford University
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Steven Chu: Solar Should be 4 Times Cheaper by 2020
I just got off a conference call with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, in which he discussed the vision for clean energy President Obama put forth in last night's State of the Union address. In that
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Alternative Fuels Won't Help Military: New Report
A new study from the RAND Corporation claims that the US military will see no direct benefits in adopting alternative fuels -- but that benefits will "accrue to the nation as a whole", according to Science
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Join the Masdar Digital Dialogue: Debate the Clean Energy Future on Twitter
The World Future Energy Summit brings heads of state, clean tech pioneers, and businessfolk from around the world to the oil-rich capital Abu Dhabi to hold forth on the future of energy. That being the case, it also brings in a truckload of
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Vestas Wins $1.5 Million Clean Energy Award, Immediately Gives it All Away
The event drawing the most buzz on day two of the World Future Energy Summit was certainly the Zayed Future Energy Prize award ceremony. The show was held at the preposterously opulent Emirates Palace -- rumor has it that it's the 2nd most expensive
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Masdar: A $2 Billion Clean Energy City Grows in the Desert
If you follow green issues even fleetingly, chances are you've heard of Masdar City -- the enigmatic, controversial, and pioneering ultra-low carbon city being built in the desert outside Abu
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World Future Energy Summit 2011: Exploring Clean Power in a City Built on Oil
Paradoxes abound at the World Future Energy Summit, an annual conference held in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi. The summit draws heads of state, business leaders, and other influential figures to the tip of the
