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Solar Industry Highs and Lows – All in One Week

Solar energy in America has seen its ups and downs, and this week both have hit together. Bankruptcy News Solar power developer Solar Trust of America filed for bankruptcy this week, putting into jeopardy a number of projects, including the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1,000-megawatt power plant which would have been built in the Mojave Desert. The Blythe project had secured a $2.1 billion guaranteed federal loan, but with Solar Trust’s parent company, German developer Solar Millennium filing for [...] Read more »

Energy from CO2, Hot Air & Volcanoes – New and Interesting Ways To Produce Power

Talk of clean, green and renewable power will most likely, in the minds of most, conjure up images of bright and shiny solar panels basking in the glory of the sun as well as slim and tall windmills. And while it is probably right to assume that these two methods of producing renewable and environment-friendly energy are indeed the most popular today, it might be that things are bound to change sooner or later, especially if the groups or companies [...] Read more »

Turn Paper Trash Into Instant Energy – Watch Out Doc Brown and Marty Mcfly!

As it turns out, the quest for a trash-powered hovercraft much like the time traveling DeLorian in Back to the Future Part 2 (which I happen to think is one my favorite sci-fi movies of all time) has become an inch closer to reality with the invention of a clever contraption that can turn paper waste into electricity. This is courtesy of electronics giant Sony Corp. which recently announced their invention and has shown how it works. Referred to as [...] Read more »

Renewable Energy Unstoppably Going Mainstream, Investments Outmatch Fossil Fuels

It seems that the huge efforts of green advocates are starting to pay off such that even the world of business is starting to see that investing in renewable power is worth it. A report by Bloomberg reported that investments in renewable energy grew more than investments made in traditional fossil fuel based energy sources like coal, gas and oil. Recent data indicate that money invested in former grew by about $187 billion while money put in the fossil fuel [...] Read more »

Profitable Times For The Power Generator Industry

I’ve found at least two news items indicating that the generator industry is in for a truly happy yuletide season. It seems that some industry players are seeing extremely brisk demand and that portable and backup generators are simply flying off the shelves. This is at the heel of a two freakishly disruptive weather disturbances that recently hit parts of the U.S: hurricane Irene which wreaked havoc on the east coast of the United States in October, and snowstorm Alfred [...] Read more »