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Solar Thermal Electricity: Can it Replace Coal, Gas, and Oil?
One of the most common arguments against large-scale use of renewable energy is that it cannot produce a steady, reliable stream of energy, day and night. Ausra Inc. does not agree. They believe that...
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Peak Coal as Early as 2025
With dwindling fossil fuel supplies, coal has been viewed as the energy source of last resort. This outlook is changing as estimated global coal supplies seem to have been severely inflated. Is coal’s...
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New CleanBoard Drywall is Made From Coal Power Plant Residue
Earlier this week, CleanBoard started talking publicly about what it calls “the most environmentally friendly drywall on earth.” That’s quite a claim, but there might be something to it: the drywall...
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Great Lakes Wind Hopes to Blow from 0 to 20 by 2030
Right now, there’s no wind in the Great Lakes, but lots of talk. There’s a bit of money, too, totaling about $100,000 from the federal stimulus package, aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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Wind Energy Cost-Competitive with Coal in Some Regions
In many parts of the world, onshore wind power is now completely cost-competitive with coal. Wind Energy Cost-Competitive with Coal in Some Regions was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read...
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General Electric Wants to Sell You Everything
Paul Browning, Vice President at General Electric, came out this past week saying that a move to natural gas and renewable energy will be the global long-term trend. At one level, this is a rather...
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EPA Sets New Air Pollution Standards for Coal-Fired Power Plants
In an effort to stop air pollution from coal-fired power plants in the eastern United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a new regulation that replaces a 2005 regulation...
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Other Cleantech News of the Week
Some more cleantech news of the week. Enjoy! Other Cleantech News of the Week was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 50,000 other subscribers: Google+ |...
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Coal Plant + New Fuel Cell System = 90% Reduction in CO2 Emissions?
If successful, FuelCell Energy's system will separate and capture 90% or more of the CO2 emitted from a coal-fired power plant's flue stream. The CO2, along with hydrogen 'reformed' from natural gas,...
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Trillionth Dollar Invested in Clean Energy & Tech, Surpassing that for Fossil...
Investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and "smart" energy technology surpassed the trillion-dollar milestone recently, while investments in renewable energy power plants are surpassing that...
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EPA Proposes 84% Emissions Cut For Coal-Firing Navajo Generating Station
Visiting the Grand Canyon is the trip of a lifetime. Trying to take in the natural beauty of the Southwest through a nitrogen oxide haze is a total bummer. To avoid this scenario the United States...
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Los Angeles CleanTech Global Showcase | The Latest In Cleantech Innovation
Last week, we covered the inaugural CleantechLA Global Showcase. With an 87% success rate, it's no wonder the LA Cleantech Incubator's babies provided a day of very exciting presentations. The...
View ArticleObama Backs CO2 Storage, Biofuels in Bid for Energy Policy
President Obama is supporting an ambitious plan to increase biofuel production in the U.S. and to develop 5 to 10 demonstration projects to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants...
View Article'Moonlanding' Carbon Capture Project Delayed in Norway
The Norwegian government has delayed until 2014 a highly touted project to capture and sequester carbon dioxide on a large scale, saying the project had become too complex to develop in the next...
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