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Dec 26, 2011 – What energy saving gifts did you receive? Did you get a hybrid car? Did you get a new Tesla?  Did you get a solar radio? Please leave your comments here.

Dec 18, 2011 – New building codes will force energy savings.  Unfortunately, new construction is way down from its peak due to the housing implosion.  Residential housing and commercial buildings make up about 40% of energy usage.  Some new state codes are expected to bring about a 15% reduction in energy usage.  Some cities go [...]

Dec 15, 2011 – Siemens Energy has received another large order to build an offshore wind power plant in Germany. For the Amrumbank West project in the North Sea, the company is supplying 80 wind turbines, each with an output of 3.6 megawatts (MW) and 120 meter diameter rotor. The customer is Amrumbank West GmbH, [...]

Dec 14. 2-11 – First Solar missed analysts’ earnings projections and the stock tanked down 20% today.  On CNBC, Bencik just said he felt First Solar was the best house on a bad block.  Although he said he thought it has now hit bottom at a 5-year low, he does not have a “buy” on [...]

Dec 12, 2011 – The solar industry is undergoing rapid change in the US, Europe and China and not all as projected.  Several companies including Solyndra and Evergreen Solar have gone bankrupt.  Two German firms, Solon and SolarWorld, have closed US manufacturing sites. Meanwhile, Steven Chu, head of the Department of Energy, has announced new [...]

Dec 12, 2011 – The Renewable Fuel Standard laid out cellulosic ethanol production mandates.  The National Research  Council says the US is not going to meet those targets.  Didn’t the Soviet Union try central planning in the 2oth century without success?  Some of the mandates: 4 billion gallons of advanced [?] biofuels, 15 billion gallons [...]

Dec 12, 2011 – The international United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban concluded after generating mostly hot air!  The expression we hear many times with the politicians with regard to fixing the economy is that they are kicking the can down the road.  The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is being extended for several [...]

The JLC Guide to Energy Efficiency will show you how to use the right techniques and the best products to make every home you build more comfortable, durable, and energy-smart. This hands-on book explains the myths and solves the mysteries about energy and moisture in the home. How to build airtight shells and detect hidden [...]

Dec 9, 2011 – Siemens and Shanghai Electric intend to set up two new joint ventures to form a strategic alliance for the Chinese wind power market. Corresponding agreements were signed on December 8, 2011, in Shanghai by the two companies. The aim of this alliance is to better serve China as the world’s largest [...]

Dec 9, 2011 – Daimler AG handed over ten Mercedes-Benz Atego BlueTec Hybrid vehicles to DP Fleet GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL, at the manufacturer’s Wörth plant today. The vehicles will be deployed throughout Germany in the mail and freight segments. The trucks assigned to DHL’s freight operations will operate in Wustermark and [...]

Dec 9, 2011 – Siemens is equipping a large part of the track network of Switzerland’s federal railroad (SBB) with its ETCS train control system. In a contract scheduled to run until 2017, some 430 switch towers and over 9,000 signaling elements are to be upgraded in line with the European Train Control System (ETCS). [...]

Dec 8, 2011 – The delivery of the 1,000th Freightliner natural gas vehicle underlines the acceptance of green technologies by customers of Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and makes the company the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to achieve such a milestone for clean, natural gas trucks in North America. To date, DTNA has handed over [...]

Dec 7, 2011 – The US EPA is scheduled to propose regulations  in mid-December 2011 to limit greenhouse gases.  It is not going to  meet the deadline.  This is the same government agency that later will penalize corporations that do not meet the EPA deadlines.  Please leave your comments here.

Dec 7, 2011 – Electrofuels are made with solar energy and inorganic reagents such as water and carbon dioxide by organisms that don’t use photosynthesis. OPX Biotechnologies  of Boulder, Colorado is working in this field as is Sun Catalytix.  Please leave information here about other companies.

Dec 7, 2011 – Andreas Schmittner recently published a report that reduces the expected effect of atmospheric increases of carbon dioxide on global warming compared to that of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.