In cooperation with project partners from BASF, Munich Technical University, and the University of Hamburg, scientists at Siemens' global research unit Corporate Technology developed an alternative for the standard polymer ABS, which is frequently used for consumer products. The new c...
Irwin sees increased risk from allowing Lishen to develop its own ultracapacitor supply chain. Schramm sees only upside.Irwin thinks Maxwell is worth $8 a share (his recent price target), while SEC filings show that Schramm and other insiders have been buying since the stock fell belo...
The price of crude oil has been shown to have significant impact on the global economy, and in the current somewhat fragile state of the various parts of that economy the current lower prices help. Yet Stuart Staniford has commented that, given the Saudi need for income to hold off “A...
The real value of the Coalinga project is to show that solar can provide the process heat needed to perform EOR in a heavy oil field, and yield valuable information about how to optimize that process. With that knowledge in hand, Chevron will be able to apply its technological know-ho...
Elsewhere in the country, several school systems have already embraced solar power. Denver, for instance, recently started saving $1 million dollars in annual energy costs through a single 1.8-megawatt “school top” solar deal. All told, the city now has 3 megawatts of solar on its sch...
Not every investor, however, has the deep pockets and long-term focus of Google, Berkshire Hathaway, and GE. As clean tech subsidies potentially expire in the U.S., other investors are choosing to sit on the sidelines. Ominously, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance , investment ...
4 Cleantech Companies Make Red Herrings Top 100 List 06/10/2012 from SustainableBusiness.com Tweet This year’s Red Herring Top 100 companies in the Americas, which celebrates the most innovative, promising privately held companies, include four cleantech firms. Companies are judged on...
-Redistribution seems to be a recurring theme in ecological economics and some environmental circles. “Fairness”, as our society markets it might be our biggest stumbling block in the end. It’s odd that we harp about how much inequity there is yet as individuals constantly strive for ...
--- American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy -- A Defining Framework for Intelligent Efficiency -- About a quarter (22 percent) of current U.S. energy consumption could be replaced by what experts are calling “intelligent efficiency.” System efficiency opportunities produce en...
If that’s the case, why does PV get more airplay than thermal? Enerconcept Technologies president Christian Vachon says it’s because PV gets most subsidies. “Governments should stop thinking that solar is expensive and needs to be heavily subsidized in order to be sustainable. With PV...
An emerging BIPV manufacturer, Nanosolar, continues to capitalize on copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) technology and drum-up funding amid major financial problems for numerous other solar manufacturing players. Despite the continued solar shakeout across the industry, venture cap...
A. Your questions are ones that people everywhere should be asking. Because of space constraints, my answers will be short, but you can find in-depth coverage of overpopulation issues in publications at a library or bookstore. Use the Internet to find names of relevant publications as...
ElectraTherm’s Waste Heat Generator Fleet Reaches 30,000 Hours Runtime. ElectraTherm, a leader in small-scale, distributed power produced from waste heat, surpassed 30,000 runtime hours on its Series 4000 Green Machine fleet. This is the first Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) machine sized...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, oil has played the role of cheap labor in the U.S. economy and in economies around the world. Traditionally, we have been interested in the horsepower of our car engines, but what if we measured the energy we use in terms of human labor? To pow...
