Business
National Model for Electric Vehicle Deployment
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Business , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Hybrids , Infrastructure , Transportation A new coalition of executives from blue chip companies in the transportation and utility industries recently announced it has come together to design a large-scale electric vehicle (EV) demonstration project that will help create a comprehensive national model for EV deployment. Read more
Tiny Solar Cell Could Make a Big Difference
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Business , Check It Out! , Energy , Featured , Solar How small can a solar cell be and still be a powerhouse? How about six hundred microns wide — about the diameter of a dot made by a ballpoint pen? Read more
Ground Breaks on West Coast Electric Highway
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Business , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Infrastructure , Transportation It’s the first sign of a border-to-border network of public electric-vehicle charging stations and the first stop on Washington’s segment of the West Coast Electric Highway along 276 miles of Interstate 5 between the state’s borders with Oregon and Canada. Read more
Using Coffee to Brew up Energy
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Business , Check It Out! , Energy , Energy Savings , Organic Waste , Waste Management The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota recently announced it is leading a project to develop an efficient renewable electricity technology for coffee-processing plants. Read more
City of Raleigh Install Solar-Powered Charging Stations
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Business , Communities , Featured Progress Energy Carolinas and the City of Raleigh recently announced the start of a two-year research-and-development partnership to evaluate solar-powered electric vehicle charging stations. Read more
US Solar Confidence Survey - The Results Are In
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Business , Energy , Solar Recently, 35,000 solar professionals from the solar and finance communities were invited to take part in asurvey to assess industry confidence for 2012 in the US. Read more
Self-Healing Electronics Could Work Longer and Reduce Waste
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Business , Consumer , E-Waste , Featured , Waste Management When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem? Read more
Providing a Solution to the Nation’s Construction Waste Problem
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Business , Featured , Recycling , Waste Management According to the Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov), the construction industry produces more than 136 million tons of waste material per year. This includes items that have the opportunity to be used on other construction Read more
How To Maintain Renewable Energy’s Rapid Growth
Posted on November, 2011 Categories: Biofuels , Building Green , Business , Energy , Fuel Cells , Geothermal , Infrastructure , Solar , Wind Renewables are now the fastest-growing sector of the energy mix and offer great potential to address issues of energy security and sustainability, but their rapid deployment is also bringing a host of challenges. Read more
