Last Friday President Obama announced $2.3 billion in tax credits for 183 ventures to build wind turbines, advanced batteries, and other clean energy technology nationwide.
The credits, which are funded by the $787 billion economic stimulus package enacted last February, are designed to discharge up to 30 percent of the cost of new investments in manufacturing [...]
Filed under: News on January 11th, 2010 @ 9:08 am
Tagged with: clean tech, economic stimulus, economy, green energy, jobs, Solar Power, Technology, wind power
Electric cars have always been the subject of more talk than action, and to date, only a handful of fully electric vehicles are on the road. But now, the biggest Danish power company is working with a Silicon Valley start-up in a $100 million effort to wire the country with charging poles and service stations [...]
Filed under: News on December 8th, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
Tagged with: electric car, global economy, green energy, innovation
The first forays into green energy cultivation typically happened on a smaller scale, adhering to a residential or small-community model, but nowadays the companies investing in these new technologies are increasing the size and centrality of their efforts.
Reading the New York Times got me excited because of the prospect of wind and solar farms becoming [...]
Filed under: Environment, Technology on August 28th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, energy, green energy, green technology, infrastructure, renewable, scale, Solar Energy, Technology, wind energy
The New York Times has an extremely informative piece by Keith Bradsher on China’s budding solar energy boom, a trend that is certainly worth paying attention to. The article points to the economic conditions in China that have made it possible for Chinese solar companies like Suntech Power Holdings to thrive in the emerging market.
Competitive [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 26th, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Tagged with: China, clean energy, clean tech, economy, energy, First Solar, funding, green energy, green jobs, investing, Q cells, Solar Energy, startup, Suntech Power Holdings, sustainability
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.