Archive for December, 2007
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007Gov Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn) and Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico) have formed a Governors’ Windpower Coalition that “they hope will put wind power on the cutting edge.”
“This is being modeled after the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition, which now has 30 states,” Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung said. Pawlenty was chair of that coalition when he […]
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Hybrids: Seven worries, seven answers
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Hit the link for a good CNNMoney article detailing 7 perceived issues with hybrids. Some are real issues, others are not.
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Schott Solar reduces cost and silicon needs with new cell coating
Thursday, December 6th, 2007From www.renewableenergyaccess.com: Schott Solar, a German solar cell manufacture, has developed a new coating for its solar cells that increase the efficiency of its cells while also reducing the amount of silicon used. While the numbers are hardly earthshattering in that the efficiency increase is .3-.5% and the reduction in silicon […]
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Can baking soda curb global warming?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007C|Net News has an interesting article on Skyonic, Inc, a company that has come up with an industrial process call SkyMine that captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make food grade baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). And the energy required for […]
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Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable and cheaper power source
Saturday, December 1st, 2007From Science Daily comes word of a study done at Stanford University that showed how connecting wind power farms throughout a geographic area with transmission lines will combine the outputs of all the farms into one very powerful energy source that is cheaper and more reliable than present wind power sources. The […]
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