Archive for January, 2009
Intel Tests Out Sharp PV for Solar-Powered Data Center
Chip giant Intel Corp. unveiled a 10-kilowatt solar installation near its New Mexico manufacturing plant this weekend, launching its latest foray into clean energy for power-hungry data centers. While energy generated by the array’s 64 Sharp solar panels will feed into the local electricity gr
Skyline Turbine contributes to UVA Learning Barge
On January 16th Skyline Turbine delivered two Air Breeze turbines to the UVA learning barge. An interdisciplinary team of University of Virginia students and faculty are collaborating with community partners on an innovative service-learning project to design and build a floating, sustainable clas
Biodiesel a Part of Presidential Inauguration
Before taking the oath of office today, President Barack Obama retraced Abraham Lincoln’s steps by making the journey from Illinois to Washington, D.C. In the spirit of Lincoln and powered by soybean checkoff-funded biodiesel, the “Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America Tour” mobile museum made
The Heat Beneath Your Feet
Whether you are cresting the peak of a majestic volcano or walking on a city street, there are immense amounts of heat beneath your feet – enough to provide all the energy the human population will ever need. In most places, though, that heat is trapped by solid rock – unavailable to our carbon
Green Steam Energy
Robert Green, an American Inventor, has developed a brand new technology which generates kinetic energy through the conversion of waste heat (as well as many other fuel sources). The Green Steam Engine is piston powered and designed for a wide assortment of practical applications. These steam engine
Politics To Test Energy Goals
WASHINGTON -- Steven Chu, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to lead the Energy Department, got a taste last week of what life in Washington would be like. Members of the Illinois congressional delegation met with the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Jan. 7 and pressured him to support renewed fede
Tilting At Wind Farms
A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of Power Electronics. Wind power is being touted as a clean and inexhaustible e
SolFocus Raises $47.5 Million to Push Concentrator Photovoltaic
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolFocus, the leading developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems, today announced that it has raised $47.5 million in the first close of its Series C financing and appointed Mark Crowley chief executive officer. SolFocus will use the new funding
PetroAlgae Raises $10 Million in Common Stock Offering
PetroAlgae Inc. (OTCBB: DVGL), a leading developer of systems to derive biodiesel fuels from algae, today announced that it has closed on a $10 million capital raise through the sale of approximately 3.2 million of newly-issued shares of common stock to two existing investors. "The proceeds f
