Another bad week for biofuels. According to two new studies being published by Science magazine this Thursday, biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these...
Archive - February 2008
More news on the subject of solar power and nanotechnology, a topic that we have written about once here. Jin Zhang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California in Santa Cruz, is testing two nanotech methods for engineering solar cell...
Yesterday, when I got up, I had to run a few errands. This meant getting in my car. I turned the key. Nothing happened. I already knew what was wrong, so I got out and wiggled the wires connecting the battery to the rest of the car. The hood...
The Wall Street Journal wrote today in its energy blog news and about Nitol Solar, a Siberian company that “wants to become one of the world’s biggest producers of high-purity silicon, the main ingredient of solar cells”. Still...
Business Week magazine is publishing stories about the green economy almost on a daily basis. One of the latest items that caught my attention was this feature about how Germany has got it right in terms of green power. Windmills now generate 7% of...
