Technology and Going “Green”: Business and Marketing Opportunities Friday, July 16 9:30a to 1:30p at Kovens Conference Center, Miami, FL The Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce presents its latest Business Empowerment Networking Series installment, Technology & Going “Green”: Business & Marketing Opportunities. This networking series will feature thorough presentations by distinguished experts on going “Green”, business [...]
Tesla Motors. Inc. (TSLA) stock surged 41% on its first day of trading, June 29, 2010. The stock had risen even more on its trading day before retreating in the afternoon. The stock is down more today. Often people take profits after a rise that occurs right after an Initial Public Offering before the stock [...]
Jun 28, 2010 – Siemens has been awarded a major order with Lincs Wind Farm Ltd to implement the grid connection for the Lincs offshore wind farm. The order volume for the grid connection is GBP101 million (approximately EUR120 million). Siemens Energy announced in December it is also supplying 75 of its high-performance 3.6 megawatts [...]
Jun 16, 2010 – Yesterday evening President Obama gave his first speech from the Oval Office. No, the US did not kill or catch Osama bin Laden. Obama had BP CEO Tony Hayward in his sights & Obama will be meeting him today at the White House. Please leave your comments here about the speech. [...]
Jun 8, 2010 – I was in Houston recently & saw that they have units that are solar powered to bill credit cards and dispense parking meter receipts to put on your dashboard to show that you paid to park. Does your city have these? Besides not drawing electricity from the grid, they are easier [...]
Jun 3, 2010 – Campbell Robertson, Joseph Berger & Henry Fountain reported in The New York Times reported today: Delicately manipulating a 20-foot-long shear at depths of nearly a mile, technicians successfully snipped a key riser pipe on Thursday in their effort to contain the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a stricken [...]
May 22, 2010 – TESLA MOTORS, INC. (Tesla) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced that they intend to cooperate on the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support. The 2 companies intend to form a specialist team to further those efforts. TMC has agreed to purchase $50 million of Tesla’s common [...]
May 4, 2010 – Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts had a 271-kw system of 1,200 high-efficiency photovoltaic modules installed atop its Gosman Sports and Convocation Center in February. They will produce 300,000 kw hrs per year equal to about 10% of Gosman’s annual power use. Brandeis did this without any upfront cost. A local renewable [...]
Apr 30, 2010 – SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) announced it has executed an agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) that completes contractual arrangements for the development of a 250-megawatt (AC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. The agreement adds 40 megawatts (MW) of capacity to SunPower’s existing [...]
Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, could become the richest. Bolivia holds vast reserves of lithium under its salt flats. Lithium is needed for electric car batteries.
QT423YZ33XPT Apr 24, 2010 – John Tierney reports on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in The New York Times. He has some information from Stewart Brand’s new book, “Whole Earth Discipline,” in which he urges greens to “question convenient fables.” How on target were the green movement leaders over the last 4 decades? “1. [...]
Apr 21, 2010 – E.ON has placed an order with Siemens Energy for the supply of 87 SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines for the Papalote Creek II wind power plant in San Patricio County, Texas. With a total installed rated capacity of more than 200 MW, the Papalote Creek II wind farm is expected to provide clean [...]
April 19, 2010 – Empire Power Systems (EPS) announced that it will install Arizona’s largest commercial rooftop solar power system on an 850,000-sq-ft building in Phoenix. The 2.4-megawatt SunPower T5 Solar Roof Tile system chosen for this rooftop represents approximately 6.5 acres of solar panels. The installation is scheduled to begin immediately. The building is [...]
Apr 14, 2010 – Set to be complete this summer, a Lancaster, Calif., home will be a test case for a first-of-its-kind residential solar system with backup battery technology. Los Angeles-based production builder KB Home has started construction on the prototype dwelling that not only will run on solar power but also capture it in [...]
Apr 14, 2010 – George F. Will reports in Newsweek that “This Nuclear Option is Nuclear” interesting statistics about nuclear energy and its competitive forms of energy production. First, safety. He points out the large number of miners that have been killed mining coal from accidents as well as from industry-specific diseases. This compares to [...]
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