Ever hear the expression “it’s so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk”? That may be a colorful way to describe the temperature but scientists aren’t taking the concept lightly. A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is close to commercializing a means of using that heat-soaking property of road-asphalt for […]

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The Sierra Club has pushed for, and succeeded in a law for all new homes in Hawaii to have solar water heaters. There is even a 35% tax break for installing them on existing homes.
Now I have never been to Hawaii, but I have heard it is warm and sunny there. So what a […]

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I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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“The oil of the 21st century is not buried deep within the earth. Instead, it falls on its surface - as sunshine.”
This is the great opening quote from an article in the German publication Spiegel, which gave the organization Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC) a great boost of publicity with this article.
TREC is an […]

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We published a post about solar thermal power last week and more on the subject has appeared in the New York Times. The newspaper published an article this week focusing mainly on a solar thermal plant in Boulder City, Nevada and the latest developments with this sort of technology. It’s a good read crammed with […]

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