Climate Change Desertification Prediction Comes True: Funding Drying Up
The Anthropogenic Global Warming movement is faced with the ugly specter of expanding deserts, dry, arid places with no... funding.
View ArticleThe Damage Done, Part 2 — How Do You Measure the Environmental Effects of...
How do we know that “green energy” is really “greener” than energy of any other color?
View ArticleThe Damage Done, Part 8 — Does Solar Power Have Its Environmental Dark Side?
Solar power is often held up as the epitome of clean, renewable energy production. What could be more “green” than spreading millions of solar panels before the sun like flower petals and generating...
View ArticleThe Damage Done, Part 10 — Are Renewables Really Better for the Environment...
Having written nine articles in this series, I'm now ready to do a comparison and try to answer the question, "Is green energy really any better for the environment than conventional power generation...
View ArticleDo Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels Help or Hurt the U.S. Solar Industry?
A trade war between the United States, the European Union and China over solar panels is brewing. As a result of Obama administration tariffs placed on Chinese panel imports, sales of those panels have...
View ArticleFuture of Electric Vehicles May Ride on Smart Grid and Charging Technologies
Although plug-in electric vehicles haven't been a runaway success, their numbers will likely increase. Analyst group Pike Research projects that about 410,000 PEVs will be sold in the U.S. between 2011...
View ArticleWill Chinese Solar PV Backsheet Makers Exploit Tariff Loopholes?
A new report from research group GlobalData observes that the solar photovoltaic backsheet market is evolving. But China's aggressive production and export activities in this sector of solar...
View ArticleTrade War on Solar Panels and Components Between China and the West Continues...
China is all set to launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into solar product imports from the EU. These investigations will join inquiries into American solar imports that are already...
View ArticleGreen Jobs Program in NYC Launches Grads into New Careers
For over the past three years, the Consortium for Workers Education has been providing hands-on training and green job placement to working adults and young people. To date, it has produced 400...
View ArticleMore Questions Raised About Whether U.S. or China Dominates in Cleantech
Fans of the U.S. cleantech industry were high-fiving a few weeks ago in response to a new Pew report that contradicted the common belief that China is outselling America in clean technologies. But can...
View ArticleSuntech Goes Dark, But the Sun Will Still Come Out Tomorrow
Chinese solar manufacturer Suntech is the latest to collapse under the weight of dropping prices and an overcrowded market. But experts say this is just part of the growing pains for the still-young...
View ArticleAre Electric Utilities Too Big to Fail?
Pacific Gas and Electric, the nation’s seventh largest investor-owned utility, is finding itself unable to compete on price with private solar contractors. Could this be the beginning of a national...
View ArticleScientists Create More Efficient Printable Solar Panels
Researchers from several Australian universities and industry partners have created a new type of printable solar panel. The new panels can deliver between 10 W and 50 W per square meter, for more...
View ArticleHow Much Land Would It Take to Go Solar?
What does the expansion of solar power generation mean for land use? Is PV efficient enough to generate the electricity the world needs, without taking over all of the agricultural land and crowding us...
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