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Google Busting Out Breakthrough Solar Thermal Technology in 1-3 Years?

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Google “green czar” Bill Weihl has just reported that if all things go as planned, we could see Google rolling out breakthrough solar thermal technology within 1-3 years.
Google “green czar” Bill Weihl has just reported that if all things go as planned, we could see [...]

Rooftop Rentals Soar With Generous Canadian Feed-in Tariff

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Since September, when the Ontario Power Authority began its generous payment for rooftop solar power, Toronto’s commercial roof acreage has become the site of a new renewable energy gold rush by solar developers now able to earn a steady income farming solar power to local utilities for 20 years.
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The Year in Energy

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Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months.
With many renewable energy companies facing hard financial times (“Weeding Out Solar Companies“), a lot of the big energy news this year was coming out of Washington, DC, with massive federal stimulus funding [...]

Biomass Plant planned for UK

This British biomass power station concept is one of the many projects being proposed around the globe as the search for renewable energy sources continues. The visually stunning Teesside plant will be covered with greenery, provide fuel for over 50,000 homes and be powered by palm kernel shells – byproducts of the palm oil plantations [...]

Energy Out of the Blue: Generating Electric Power from the Clash of River and Sea Water

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Two pilot projects are testing the potential of “salt power,” a renewable energy that relies on the differing salinities at river mouths to make watts
In the hunt for alternatives to polluting and climate-warming fossil fuels, attention has turned to where rivers meet the sea. Here, freshwater and saltwater naturally settle their salinity difference, [...]