NREL’s Clean Energy Development Map
The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ) has created a zoomable, draggable Google-style map that allows users to explore where clean energy resources are located within the United States. Included in the available list of resources are hydro, biomass residue, geothermal, solar PV, solar thermal, off- and on-shore wind, and wave power . One can zoom in to view their town, county...
Australia: Wind Energy And Solar Power Needs Support
The Grattan Institute has studied the potential of wind power, solar energy (photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power), geothermal energy , bioenergy, nuclear and CCS to generate near-zero emissions power. No easy choices: which way to... Low-emission technology 'needs support' Sydney Morning Herald Energy options will need support Adelaide Now Our ETS future 'will not come cheaply' The Australian all 15 news articles...
Solar Thermal Advocates Say Colorado Is Perfect For Taking The Heat
And now for a radical idea: Use the sun to heat water and air. OK, perhaps it isn't a radical idea, but it is an underused one in Colorado and one that a group of solar-energy businesses and and renewable-energy advocates want to boost.
An Interview With VantagePoint CEO Alan Salzman
VantagePoint Capital Partners has committed more than $1 billion to cleantech. The venture capital firm backed electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors and algal biofuels and bioproducts producer Solazyme, both of which went public. Today, VantagePoint has three cleantech companies - green chemicals producer Genomatica, solar thermal developer BrightSource Energy, and cellulosic ethanol producer Mascoma -...
Thailand Opens The First Of Fifteen Solar Thermal Plants Using Solarlite Technology
Earlier this month, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit inaugurated the first solar thermal plant in the Kanchanaburi province of Thailand. Duckwitz, Germany-based Solarlite partnered with Thai Solar Energy company to manufacture and build the five-megawatt system. It is the first of about fifteen plants using Solarite's technology. The plants are...
Pratt & Whitney’s Waste Heat-to-Power Organic Rankine Cycle Solutions Now …
Pratt & Whitney's Waste Heat -to- Power Organic Rankine Cycle Solutions Now ... MarketWatch (press release) 9, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS), a world leader in Organic Rankine Cycle solutions for waste heat , biomass, geothermal and solar thermal power applications, announced today that its broad offering of Organic ... and more »
