Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced earlier this month that it has entered into a series of contracts with BrightSource Energy for a record total of 1,310 megawatts (MW) of solar thermal power. These power purchase agreements, covering seven...
Archive - May 2009
The big story this week is the piece of news that came out of of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The organization carried out the most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s...
(Via Solveclimate.com and EarthFirst.com): Be careful with what you read these days. Solve Climate has written denouncing The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), which Solve Climate says “has been running an online...
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have discovered a potential chink in the armor of fibers that make the cell walls of certain inedible plant materials so tough. The insight ultimately could lead to a cost-effective and energy-efficient...
Alternative Energy News has a great article about a company called Peñascal, a 202 MW wind farm in Texas, who wants “to become a model for responsible development by installing new radar technology to protect migratory birds and...
