The weekend is upon us and it’s great to have something cheerful to take with us to our leisure time. In my view, nothing more uplifting than a great green idea. So meet Plastic Plan. The project, still in paper, aims at ridding landfills of plastic bottles while using them to generate clean energy offshore. [...]

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Wells Fargo and SunPower today announced a new collaborative effort to fund up to $100 million in SunPower commercial-scale solar systems.

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Quite often articles about renewable energy tend to focus on a single issue, such as a company’s technological breakthrough, a regional market or economic issues. Therefore, putting the global picture together is something of a challenge. Here I would point to this excellent article in Renewable Energy World which provides readers with a panoramic view [...]

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Ten companies and institutes are cooperating in the €6-million joint project called SOLASYS (Next Generation Solar Cell and Module Laser Processing Systems), which is being coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Germany. The project’s initial results will be presented at the coming international trade fair LASER 2009 – World of Photonics, [...]

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A report in the New York Times yesterday said renewable, alternative energy is about to recover from the 2008 market meltdown, especially solar power and next-generation biofuels, while wind will continue to rely on government support. “Biofuel executives … speak of an inevitable turn from corn-based ethanol into more efficient cellulosic feedstocks like sugarcane, switchgrass, [...]

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