Africa is doing well with 5 - 6 % growth 2008 The subsaharan Westcoast with Ghana, as 15 years young business center is developing independant of the credit crisis. Accra will become the first manufacuring...
$ 700 bn how to invest ? Bailout Nation USA, what could $700bn do to remake the planet and create jobs. To refill or fix the Ozone layer by Laser Satellites would cost only $50 bn. What could the program Lighting...
New study shows that shifting to 40% renewable electricity production and 30% biofuel by 2038 will create 4.2 million jobs."WASHINGTON - A major shift to renewable energy and efficiency is expected to produce 4.2...
Soon terawatts of non-polluting electrical energy will be readily and cheaply available from sunlight, even when it's cloudy. An inexpensive photo-voltaic paint has been invented in the UK and will soon be in...
Solar panels are now being targeted by thieves in California - many are calling it the crime of the future.Sunny California has a lot of homes with solar panels, and they are expensive - therefore are a new commodity...
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It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.Solar Power to Rule in 20...
Driving with the V8 Pick-up to protect the desert tortoise. America's strange relation to C02 record polluting the world. Solar power plants not on the move. 50% of Americas electricity still from stinky Coal fired...
The 10th Annual Solar Photovoltaic conference is being held in China this weekend.Many of us may not know what this kind of power is, but it seems to be emerging as a key player to reducing energy costs and...
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If you want to see the Solar tax credits passed in the US, call your Representative! The Senate just passed a version extending the credits for 8 years, that are set to expire this year. The bill has stalled in the House, and Bush is threatening a veto."Though both houses of...
A new solar powered bicycle has been invented that allows users to go faster and to use less leg power.It is called Cycle Sol and works like a pedal bike, except has a solar cell lined canopy overhead of where the...
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On many issues I disagree with Glenn Beck, but we agree that Ray Kurzweil is relevant and fascinating; an inventor, author and futurist, Kurzweil predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the power and...
The sun is apparently taking a big old nap, that only happens once in a century. The particles are now blowing with less vigor than before and less heat.Data collected by the 18-year-old Ulysses spacecraft has...
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Sun , our major sourece of natural energy , is less blustry then before., NASA scientist said today. Latest data from Ulyses conform this event." The sun's winds are less blustery than they used to be, NASA said on...
The Senate has voted to extend the solar and wind tax credits set to expire at the end of this year. The pending expiration and lack of consensus in Congress on renewal has had the renewable energy industry in limbo, uncertain as to how to plan future investment, research and...