Archive for February, 2007
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007Lennar, one of the country’s largest home builders, says that they will install solar power systems in all its new homes in the California Bay Area. Each syste, which will generate 2.3 kilowatts of solar power, will probably cost between $12,000 and $15,000, which is cheaper than the typical residential solar […]
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California Cities Buying into Utah Wind Power
Sunday, February 25th, 2007The Salt Lake Tribune discusses how a number of southern California cities (Los Angeles, Burbank, and Pasadena) have just signed a 20 year $270 million contract with UPC Wind of Milford, UT to buy 200 megawatts of wind-generated electricty. This is enough to power about 43,000 homes.
The three California cites are the […]
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Kia Motors Showing Off New Hybrid Rio
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Kia Motors is planning to debut its new Rio Hybrid at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show, according to Edmunds.com. While it doesn’t look like the car will actually go on sale in North America until 2008, Kia plans to conduct a 4,000 car “real world” test in Korea over the next year. […]
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Mongabay.com: Balloon Technology Could Cut Cost of Solar Energy 90% by 2010
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Mongobay.com has an article today about a company named CoolEarth Solar that is developing something called balloon technology. Basically, balloon technology uses a string of balloons to concentrate and capture the sun’s energy without taking up large amounts of valuable real estate or by using large amounts of silicon, which is in short […]
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South Carolina to Harness Wind Power?
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007The Charlotte Observer reports that scientists, lawmakers, and energy utility executives from three states (South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia) will meet in Charleston this month to talk about offshore wind turbines.
“Areas off the South Carolina coast are potentially fertile ground for turbines, based on a study of wind strength recently […]
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Science Daily - Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel of the Future?
Monday, February 19th, 2007Science Daily runs through some of the ways the US could meet President Bush’s goal to produce 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and alternative fuels by 2017. The best way to meet this goal is to produce cellulosic ethanol, according to Chris Somerville, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University […]
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First Solar Swings to Profit as Sales Soar
Monday, February 19th, 2007First Solar on Wednesday reported a profit as sales in the quarter ending December 21 increased to $52.7 million or an increase of 287.5% over the year ago quarter. The company continues to try to boost production - they are expanding one plant in Ohio and building a new manufacturing plant in Germany. […]
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New Alternative Energy Ideas in Florida
Monday, February 19th, 2007Florida has $15 million in grant money available for alternative and renewable energy projects - this money was made available as part of its 2006 Energy Act passed last spring. When lawmakers passed the Act, they expected to get about 75 proposals, but so far, 180 proposals are waiting to be reviewed […]
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Toyota Hybrid News
Sunday, February 18th, 2007There were a couple of articles about Toyota hybrids today. First off, Toyota is now, for the first time, offering incentives on the Prius because sales have slowed somewhat. Toyota is reporting that they have a 59 day supply of cars on hand, where as recently as October they only […]
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Fuel Cell Stocks in Review
Thursday, February 15th, 2007SeekingAlpha has a long list of fuel cell stocks along with descriptions of the particular area of the fuel cell business they’re involved with. Along with familiar names like Ballard Power Systems and Plug Power are lots of other names I’m not familiar with. Check it out here to get their full […]
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