Oversupply of Silicon Worse Than Expected - Greentech Media
Expect lower solar-photovoltaic costs: good for buyers, bad for suppliers. Also note that thin-film cells are forecast to represent 25 percent of production in 2010.
New Report Reveals Huge Variation Between Cities’ Carbon Footprints - Wired Science
Cool mashup of Brookings Institute data measuring different cities’ carbon footprints.
Google Maps and city carbon footprint mashup.
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Wired)
Toyota building $192M green-car battery plant - Associated Press
The great
car battery race is on in earnest: plant will make nickel metal hydride batteries now used in the Prius. Also rumored is a Toyota lithium ion battery plant.
T. Boone Pickens’ green scheme - Fortune
The legendary wildcatter (I’ve always wanted to say that) has a grand plan to use wind power to decrease U.S. dependence on oil.
White House: Humans "Very Likely" Causing Warming - The Wall Street Jounal
Higher temperatures mean more energy generation is needed to cool homes and run industry, the White House concludes.
Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal - The New York Times
Reality check on the huge hurdles facing so-called clean coal, which involves pollution from coal power plants being pumped underground.
Sopogy Scores $9M Funding from Omidyar, Hawaiian Investors - Earth2Tech
The Hawaiian company uses small reflective troughs to generate heat and make electricity.