PV Mapping Project announced by NREL
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced the Open PV Mapping Project. This project is a community driven database of Photovoltaic installations in the US from 1998 to 2009. The goal is to organize and distribute knowledge of the location, size, cost and date for all of the US from all the states and all the installers. This is a work in progress that gives a very good representation of how the solar industry is progressing and... [Read More...]
Optimistic and social investing – Paul Hawken
I have long talked about the connection between optimism and how we create our reality. How our beliefs craft our feelings and how our feelings create our reality. This interesting inverview of Paul Hawken by Wordchanging.com talks directly to how this way of thinking is being utilized in green investing, social justice, environmentalism and sustainability. Hawken is the author of “Natural Capitalism” “I’d rather fail at something... [Read More...]
Turn your house into a Power Plant
New research at MIT has opened the door to a 24 hour energy solution using the sun and solar energy. Plants store their energy in the evening and their is an abundance of energy during the day to allow for overnight storage. The amount of energy falling on the Earth in one hour is equivalent to all of the energy needs of the planet for an entire year. New and efficient ways of splitting hydrogen and oxygen and storing the energy in a fuel cell in... [Read More...]
Energy Department supporting renewables with over $40 billion
Energy Department “special organization” to distribute $40 billion Quickly by Alt.E on Monday, 23 February 2009 Steven Chu has created a team to distribute the economic stimulus cash earmarked for energy ‘wisely but also quickly’. Greenwire reports: The Energy Department has created a “special organization” to distribute $40 billion contained in the economic stimulus package for energy projects, Secretary Steven Chu said today. “It’s... [Read More...]
White House Solar Panels, when, how and who?
The first solar panels were installed by President Jimmy Carter back in 1979. It was a bold statement that was later removed by President Ronald Regan. Now that we have such renasance in renewable energy and President Barack Obama is touting Energy Independence we may see solar and wind renewable energy return to the White House in a major way. There is actually a documentary being done about the removed panels called “A Road Not Taken”... [Read More...]
Solar shingles could be new wave of solar from Dow Chemical
In a recent articele by Paul Wyche – Saginaw News ### Solar shingles is not a new disease, but Dow Chemical Co. hopes they spread like gangrene. During the past year, engineers, scientists and others at Dow Solar Solutions — a $50 million investment — have worked at a photovoltaic facility, a retrofitted former research and development building in the company’s sprawling 1,900-acre complex here. Their goal is to produce thermoplastic... [Read More...]
Unprecedented Solar Industry Growth Seen for our future
February 6th, 2009 The Blade, Toledo, Ohio in Technology / Physorg.com The head of the federal government’s effort to promote solar technology told about 200 industry leaders yesterday that expanding the industry to the level needed by 2030 will require unprecedented levels of growth. Mr. Lushetsky predicted that the solar energy industry — including manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors — ultimately could employ 4 million people.... [Read More...]
RSi-Solar unveils world’s most powerful solar panel: the SUPER-PV
Back in December we reported on RSi-Solar announcing the world’s first, transparent, photovoltaic-glass window which generates 80 to 250 watts of electricity. Here I was hard to top that exciting news but this new announcement shines new light into silicon wafer efficiency. At the GoGreen EXPO (Los Angeles)… RSi-Solar just unveiled the most powerful solar panel in the world. The DSO SUPER-PV™, a 60-cell, standard-size, mono-crystalline... [Read More...]
Wind changing direction, Governor calls for 2,000MW of Wind by 2020
This is a huge shot in the arm for wind power in Massachusetts, and a strong energy leadership role by Governor Deval Patrick. This will create jobs, stimulate the economy. Moving us toward energy independence and away from the dependence on fossil fuels. ### Massachusetts Governor Calls for 2,000 MW of Wind by 2020 by Carl Levesque, AWEA Massachusetts, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Providing further support to a package of previously... [Read More...]
Bringing light to 1.5 Billion in this world without it
A Stanford startup, D.light Design (www.dlightdesign.com) is planning a simple way to bring light through an afforable solution of solar and LED lights to over 1.5 Billion people. Here is who they are: “The use of kerosene lamps has caused countless disabilities and loss of lives. Kerosene lamps are a poor and unreliable source of light that emit smoke and create unhealthy home environments. They depend on kerosene fuel, which is expensive... [Read More...]
