Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Short-term transients, including those related to wind and solar sources, present challenges to the electrical grid. Nature Communications 2, Article number: 550 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1563. C, two-thirds of its maximum discharge capacity is observed. Wessells, Robert A.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

At CleanTechnica, we have written a number of articles about a variety of fully electric boats. These vessels are mostly for outdoor recreation and are sometimes called pleasure- or leisure-craft. In no particular order, they are the Voltari 260, X-Shore Eelex 8000, Blue Innovation Group R30, and Candela C-8.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2012

Analysts at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed harmonized meta-analyses of lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions from coal, wind, solar and other energy technologies. Each article describes the details of the calculations for each step of harmonization.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 1, 2024

The scene: A space-based solar power station called the Converter being commissioned some time in the Future. The plot: The astronauts are training Cutie to take over the station’s operations, which involve collecting solar energy in space and then directing it as intense beams of microwaves down to Earth. For example, U.K.-based

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

But a recent article claims it could take just 40 years to convert the bulk of the world's global energy usage from fossil fuels to renewable energy, primarily wind and solar power. We approach energy policy with care here, since GreenCarReports is largely about. well, cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2024

I’ve been traveling for summer vacation with the family and skipped a week or two, but here’s another roundup of some top CleanTechnica articles from the past two weeks. continued] The post Huge Solar Power Boom, Tariffs on Chinese Electric Cars — Top Cleantech Stories appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Andrews have demonstrated that ammonia can be synthesized directly from air (instead of N 2 ) and H 2 O (instead of H 2 ) under a mild condition (room temperature, one atmosphere) with supplied electricity which can be obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind or marine. Rong Lan, John T.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es902329h. Anderson, S. Mueller, M. Williander and K.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Technol Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903884a. Kharecha, Charles F. Kutscher, James E. Hansen and Edward Mazria (2010) Options for Near-Term Phaseout of CO 2 Emissions from Coal Use in the United States.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The solar system’s biggest planet has a big problem You are orbiting Jupiter, 779 million km from the sun, where physics and logic say it ought to be very, very cold. If solar heating were the only factor at play, the planet's upper atmosphere would average 70 degrees below zero Celsius. Winds in the cloud bands reach 500 km/h.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

There’s no specific anniversary I’m marking with this article, but with so many notable changes happening in the world right now, I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on how cleantech industries most notably, solar energy, wind energy, electric vehicles, battery storage, and heat pumps have evolved.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2014

Over the last 20 years, electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction has attracted attention because of the ability to use electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and wave. Qi Lu, Jonathan Rosen, Yang Zhou, Gregory S. Hutchings, Yannick C. Kimmel, Jingguang G.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

The required energy for the synthetic carbon cycle can come from any alternative energy source such as solar, wind, geothermal, and even nuclear energy. Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP doi: g/10.1021/ja202642. This broad concept the basis of what they call the Methanol Economy.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the previous article on off-grid EV charging , the focus was on the energy storage battery and the DC-AC inverter that supplies the EV charger (and all of the other AC loads). Secondly, most residential-scale wind generators (i.e. Secondly, most residential-scale wind generators (i.e.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Mercedes has announced a new wind power deal to ensure it reaches carbon neutrality as soon as possible. Still, one of the most involved has been Mercedes, which has invested heavily in massive wind and solar projects to power its European operations. What do you think of the article?

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 19, 2021

On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments M&A Activity Picks Up In India’s Rooftop Solar Market Amplus Energy, a rooftop […]. Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Whereas the last version of the Databook did not even have data on wind and solar power generation, China is now among the top wind power producers in the world. It was underreported.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

The results show that electromethanogenesis can be used to convert electrical current produced from renewable energy sources (such as wind, solar, or biomass) into a biofuel (methane) as well as serving as a method for the capture of carbon dioxide. Article ASAP. Shaoan Cheng, Defeng Xing, Douglas F. Call and Bruce E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2013

The new catalyst, reported in an open source paper in Nature Communications , could pave the way for reliable, economical metal-air batteries and alkaline fuel cells, providing for practical use of wind- and solar-powered electricity, as well as enhanced hybrid and electric vehicles. —Piotr Zelenay, corresponding author.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 16, 2021

On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments First Solar Plans $684 Million Module Fab In India US-based thin-film module manufacturer […]. Welcome to another issue of our new India x Cleantech series!

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 18, 2007

Yet another reason to think again about the ethanol craze in an article in today's LA Times. Of our "alternative fuel" options, only electricity can truly be made renewably (wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro), with no carbon or other noxious emissions. I blogged about this previously here.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2023

Energy Information Administration, Arizona is unsurprisingly the fifth top producer of solar energy, constituting a considerable 9% of its overall power generation. The rest of Arizona’s energy comes from either Nuclear (28%), hydroelectric (5%), or wind (1%). What do you think of the article? According to the U.S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? Instead, that pure status is now reserved above all for wind and solar. The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A team of IEEE volunteers installed 14 solar-powered microgrids at the monastery and a nearby elementary school. The Lingshed project was done in collaboration with the Global Himalayan Expedition , an organization that couples tourism with technology to deliver solar energy to remote communities.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 22, 2021

On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments 15 Companies Propose To Invest $15 Billion In Solar Manufacturing Leading industrial conglomerates […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On a monthly basis, we are pulling news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article about the country. Cleantech Investments Reliance Industries To Invest $100 Billion In Solar Power Reliance New Energy Solar, a […].

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, and wind power to 3.4 percent from solar and wind power. A 2-megawatt solar plant located 500 kilometers from IITM Research Park provides dedicated electricity to the complex.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 11, 2021

Last week’s most popular articles were centered around lithium-ion batteries, along with a popular one on the Tesla Model Y and one little potential issue in certain niche situations. Then we’ve got Ford in the news … for solar plus storage.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2021

In a previous article, I covered a recipe Elon Musk gave us for powering the world with renewables. He gave the overall plan, but obviously couldn’t give full details on the plan at the local level. During another part of the Q1 earnings call, he gave a lot more detail on how the local level […].

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rivian has signed a power purchase agreement with Apex Clean Energy to supply their Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility with wind power. Now, Rivian will invest an undisclosed amount of money into 50MW of wind energy that will supply the company’s operations in Normal, Illinois. What do you think of the article?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

Here’s a quote from the LA Times article By Maeve Reston: Obama unveils $2.4-billion Read the full LA Times article and the complete Town Hall Transcript. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015. Photos: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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