From an article by Kayla Bunge in the Janesville Gazette:LAKE GENEVA — John Kivlin despises the word “sustainability” for all the political and social stereotypes it stirs up.But he can find few other words that accurately describe his philosophy on renewable energy and its ability to create local jobs and fuel the state economy, he said.“(Investing in renewable energy) is sort of like buying loc

The lighting sector picks up interest from investors in Africa and China, as a Canadian biodiesel producer makes its public debut. Details of this, plus we spot 34 deals in the past seven days.

Check out this story of mine in MIT Technology Review about Sundrop Fuels, a Colorado startup that's trying to commercialize a process that uses the sun to gasify biomass, instead of burning a portion of the biomass itself to drive the gasification process. The technology is based on research carried out at the University of Colorado, Boulder, with help from NREL. The company believes the syngas

Sundrop Fuels, a Louisville, CO, -based company has developed a method of using concentrated solar power to heat the biomass to 1200 or 1300 ºC, and even produce syngas more efficiently than the standard technology, which uses only 30 to 35 percent of the biomass.

It's a one-two green punch for the trucking industry: today the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced a program with the U.S. EPA to help get rid of older trucks with dirty emissions, and just yesterday the company New Energy Technologies announced another step forward for device that can harvest sustainable kinetic energy from trucks as they, well, keep truckin' on.If you ever grew

A great deal of discussion of renewable energy these days focuses on massive, centralized projects, relying on habits of thought we inherit from the departing age of cheap abundant energy. With the aid of two inventors and a glass of brandy, the Archdruid explains why thermodynamics suggests a radically different approach. read more

Originally Posted at Breakthrough InstituteThe CBS Evening News has profiled the U.S. position in the global clean energy race for a segment called, "Where America Stands," and unsurprisingly, America stands behind China and other nations in developing and producing the technologies that will underpin the tremendous growth of the global clean energy sector over the coming decades. CBS correspon

From a commentary by Guy Selsmeyer, president of Northern Biogas, in the Wausau Daily Herald:One sector of the Wisconsin economy, renewable energy, continues to create jobs, despite the economic recession. Already this year, three new businesses in renewable energy manufacturing have made headlines, creating nearly 1,000 manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin in the next few years.It is therefore perple

Paul Rowe has sent a short article that I would like to post here. Some articles by Rowe posted previously:A History of Dark Matter?Controlled Transmutation of Elements Under Surprisingly Mild Conditions?Hydrogen From Space - The Aether 'Comes Alive'So here is his latest..Gravity and the Nature of the Chemical Bond? Part IIntroductionSepp Hasslberger has included several of my articles on his blo

The world's first commercial wireless EV has been introduced on Tuesday in South Korea at a theme park in Seoul. It's called the "On-Line Electric Vehicle" (OLEV), and it gets its energy from cables underneath the surface of the road. The car doesn't make any contact with the road, all the energy is transferred by magnetic induction.

Sunpods Inc. is California-based manufacturing company. They produce modular, fully integrated and tested solar power generation systems. Recently they have come out with an idea of the first solar power-assist system for buses. They should be applauded for developing it in a mere six weeks. Their partner is Bauer Intelligent Transportation. The system developed [...]Posted in: Public Transit,

“It's not too late; we can minimize the alteration, or we can just plow on as usual … and if we plow on as usual … it could be very, very bad.” So says Nobel Prizewinner for Physics, Steven Chu, who is now Energy Secretary of the Obama administration Department of Energy – at Stanford University this week.“Speaking to the choir” (peer reviewed scientists and the educated already understand