The European Union launched last week the Clean Sky Joint Technology Initiative when more than 500 participants attended the Forum on February 5th in Brussels. The objective of the programme is to offer Europe an ecological and sustainable...
There is a lot of press about Global Warming, though now it is called Global Climate Change. One set of scientists reports that it is really all about sunspots and we may have a cooling trend occur, becasue sunspots are not acting as they should in...
The big news today on the renewable energy front is that the solar power industry is surging in financial markets, with several companies posting earnings. Business Week mentions a roster of solar power companies that have posted positive returns...
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...
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...
