All Posts Tagged With: "Energy"
Dirt Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Passes Benchmark Test
Dye-sensitized, silicon-free solar cells have passed an important viability test at a Chinese lab. Do innovations like this herald the age of cheap solar power?
Read Article | CommentsVirginia Sets Stage For Eco-War: To Coal, Or Not To Coal?
A new coal-burning power plant could bring money and needed much-jobs to rural Virginia. But environmentalists want to block the project. Who’s right?
Read Article | CommentsSolar Sailors At Home, Too: Navy Installs Solar Housing
The U.S. Navy has taken its first steps toward solar power at its Oahu base housing. Could this the start of something big?
Read Article | CommentsClean Energy Megaplex Can’t Get On Grid
One of the largest clean energy facilities in the country is going to power San Diego–if they can figure out a way to get the power there.
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Monday, 16 June, 2008
Power bills increase after coal prices double in 12 months; a new survey projects robust organic food sales; and renewable bamboo homes for China’s quake victims.
Read Article | CommentsSurvey: Gas Prices Force Consumer Change
Pain at the pump: A new survey of some 43,000 consumers shows that rising gasoline prices are beginning to modify the way people work and travel.
Read Article | CommentsWill Desalination End Worries Over Freshwater?
Desalination is essential to surviving in Saudi Arabia–can it be adapted to run cheap and clean in other parts of the world?
Read Article | CommentsSolar Power Company Ponies Up $161 Million
It’s on! Big business stocks its solar energy warchest as SunEdison socks away $160 million for unspecified investments.
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Wednesday, 28 May, 2008
Oil prices finally take a tumble on weakening demand; scientists propose ways to geoengineer a cooler climate; and clever new ways to keep cattle from burping methane.
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Thursday, 22 May, 2008
A major energy analyst looks ahead to double-digit gasoline prices; Congress blows its “veto-proof,” energy subsidy-laden farm bill; and a sweet all-electric scooter that guns down the interstate at 60 miles per hour.
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