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Manufacturers can barely keep up as demand for solar cells skyrocket. In 2009 alone a capacity equivalent of three large coal fired power plants will be installed. (Read More)
Climate Progress:
Guess who uttered that piece of nonsense. I’ll put the answer below the jump — note that the wording of the headline statement contains a tiny clue as to who said it.In any case, you simply can’t top solar for clean power, e (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emerge as a practical alternati (Read More)
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On Saturday October 24th Greenpeace joined 350.org to mobilize people around the world for the October 24th International Day of Climate Action. At events all over the country, from St. Louis' iconic arch to a coal plant in (Read More)
Climate Feedback:
Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great BeyondThe world’s carbon dioxide ‘sinks’ are not able to keep up with the amount of the greenhouse gas being produced, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience.Reviewing (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
Emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels soared by 41 percent from 1990 to 2008 and have jumped 29 percent since 2000, according to one of the most comprehensive studies to date of global carbon emissions. The st (Read More)
AlphaGalileo RSS Channel:
"Market potential of high efficiency CHP and waste based ethanol in European pulp and paper industry"The objective of this study is to analyse the market potential of new high efficiency CHP concept developed by VTT in German (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have announced the creation of a joint program to develop clean energy, including the creation of a $150 million clean energy research center. Meeting in Beijing, th (Read More)
edie.net - Latest News:
The US Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft report on two coal ash impoundments at American Electric Power's Philip Sporn facility in West Virginia. (Read More)
Climate Progress:
Brazil announces “historic” drop in deforestationDeforestation of the world’s largest tropical rain forest, in Brazil, fell by the largest amount in more than 20 years, dropping 45 percent from nearly 5,000 square miles to so (Read More)
Climate Progress:
The color of solar cells — and their short energy payback — are trivial factors when considering the huge climate benefit they provide in avoiding the release of CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels.That was a central poin (Read More)
Climate Progress:
You may recall from September that the dirty coal group’s 14th forgery impersonated American veterans, whereas real vets support strong action on climate and clean energy — as does GOP Senator John Warner, former Armed Servic (Read More)
edie.net - Latest News:
The Government's focus on nuclear power and 'clean' coal has been heavily criticised by a leading environmental organisation. (Read More)