Many green-supporters are urging President Barack Obama to pursue a “green revolution” with big investments in renewable energy. This has the potential to open new markets and create millions of “green-collar” jobs. But is there a downside to this investment?
One short coming of the green revolution argument is that it doesn’t realistically take efficiency into [...]
VCs invested over $1 billion in alternative energy during the third quarter of 2008, while investments in most other sectors were down – and this trend is likely to continue in 2009. For an overview of the hottest green-related opportunities, and the innovative people, organizations and ideas related to pursuing those opportunities, attend Alternative Energy [...]
The green-tech industry has been somewhat finance-challenged, but last Friday the Department of Energy announced plans to provide the first alternative-energy loan in four years. The DOE plans to give California start-up Solyndra $535 million in loans to design rooftop solar arrays.
According to CNet News writer Martin LaMonica, Energy Secretary Steven Chu has revamped the [...]
Leave it to the Germans to figure out a way to engineer a house that stays warm without using energy. “Passive houses,” a concept currently being put into practice in a city in central Germany, use ultrathick insulation to essentially encase the home in airtight shell, which is warmed not only by the sun, but [...]
Everyone’s heard the buzz about finding “greener” ways to provide sustainable energy but, with most sustainable technologies still far from being feasible on a large scale, an unlikely source may be the key to a greener tomorrow – bacteria.
According to Colin Barras at NewScientist, bacteria may hold the key to developing technologies that significantly reduce our [...]
New Wind Turbine in Portsmouth, RI to Deliver Green Energy- And an Estimated Three Million Dollars in Revenue
The island town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island recently constructed a 340-foot, 440,000-pound wind power turbine at the local high school.
According to material published by the Portsmouth Economic Development Committee, “the turbine pays for itself.” The green energy produced [...]
It’s estimated that the energy density in waves is more than 800 times higher than in wind, currently the most popular alternative energy resource. Rafael Waters, from the Uppsala University in Sweden, decided harness this energy. But, instead of adapting conventional energy technology, he built a durable, maintenance-free, simple mechanical construction that was adapted to [...]
An innovation looking for a market – it happens more often than we’re taught to believe as marketing students. Such is the case with black silicon. First discovered and produced at Harvard in the late ‘90s, it emerged from a research project financed by the Army Research Organization / ARO (http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?Action=29&Page=219). After nearly a decade, [...]
Marine renewable energy — it has great potential, but is yet unproven. That’s changing. Today we have the US Navy erecting tidal turbines off the coast of the state of Washington, and Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project http://www.verdantpower.com/what-initiative is being operated in New York City’s East River. The validity of this approach might [...]
Today I came across an invite to the second annual CFO Green Conference, “Making Sustainability Cost Effective.“ For anyone investing time and/or money in this space, this seems like a potentially worthwhile event to attend. Presenters and speakers range from Andrew S. Winston, a Corporate Environmental Strategist and Co-Author of Green to Gold, to John [...]