American Chemical Society: More Emphasis Needed on Recycling and Reuse of Li-ion Batteries. The discovery of potential environmental and human health effects from disposal of millions of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries each year has led scientists to recommend stronger government p...
Call it the copycat syndrome or marketing burnout wherein a company has a success with one product at which point every company in the space copies the effort leaving a market dotted with me-too products with little differentiation other than price. Eventually through this process val...
Middle Schoolers Shine in Electric Car Races May 24, 2013 Enlarge image Xavier Urquijo from Summit Ridge Middle School in Littleton waits for the start signal to lift the folder covering the solar panel on his team’s car, “Knight Hawk.” His team was one of 97 from 28 Colorado middle s...
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China’s use of fresh water resources also threatens those beyond its borders. As Mark Twain reportedly said, in reference to California in the late nineteenth century, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” The sentiment holds true in modern-day Asia as well. Asia’s pe...
New U.S. Energy Secretary Embraces Natural Gas, 'Bullish' On Solar Dear Mr. Secretary: I own two gems in the rough in Niagara Falls, NY: Canrom Photovoltaics Inc. and Niagara Science Museum. NYSERDA invested $2.5 million in Canrom ($ 1.5 millions after taxes), then suddenly retracted....
The issue of energy may have been overshadowed by that of tax at yesterday’s EU summit of Heads of State in Brussels, but its growing importance and impact on Europe’s economy is one that cannot be ignored. As the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, Europeans are paying a lot for the...
Lies, Truth, and Disbelief via BigStock Photo Are you missing out on great investment returns – is the Dow really headed for 20,000? Is the advanced biofuels rally for real? Why are investors sitting on the sidelines in the Valley of Disbelief? This year in the United States, despite ...
Los Angeles has made a number of strides toward what many hope is a bright energy future with a big new PV array and the finalization of its 150 MW feed-in-tariff (FIT) program. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has begun receiving electricity from a new 8.5 MW sol...
Developed countries worldwide are facing enormous financial costs associated with maintaining and ultimately replacing their aging energy and transportation infrastructure of pipelines, refineries, power plants, electric transmission lines, roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, etc. Given th...
The parent company of health food chain Holland & Barrett , Nuneaton-based NBTY Europe , has announced it is to install 100 percent biomass energy throughout all its 700 UK stores. The project is part of the company’s ‘Plan It Green’ initiative and will use Haven Power to supply bioma...
