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Artist making the invisible realities of climate change a tactile experience
Sunday, 20 November 2011 Dan McCue Nathalie Miebach may not yet be a household name, but the Boston Massachusetts-based artist and 2011 TED Global Fellow, has already staked out a reputation as one of America’s most original-thinking...
United States
Embracing the future of solar power deep in the heart of Texas
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 Dan McCue Michael Gorton, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Principal Solar Inc., an energy firm based in Dallas, Texas in the US, readily admits he was less than excited about the prospects of solar ener...
Bats, far more than birds, are falling victim to wind turbines, a US team seeks to find out why
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 Dan McCue Bats have been a misunderstood and widely persecuted species for almost long as there has been a recorded human history. As a result, bat mortality at wind energy facilities was a largely unanticipate...
Inside the Google-backed geothermal mapping project that's likely to broaden the sector’s reach in the US
Monday, 07 November 2011 Dan McCue When Southern Methodist University’s Geothermal Laboratory released its latest map showing the renewable energy potential locked beneath the United States, most of the publicity the October announce...
IEA’s Philibert discusses scenarios for the future of the global energy
Monday, 31 October 2011 Dan McCue A former science journalist, Cédric Philibert has over the past two decades become one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change, renewable energy and the scenarios with which the planet wi...
Vineyards and wineries embrace renewables, energy efficiency to best climate change
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 Dan McCue Say what you will about climate change – and even at this late date, divergent opinions abound – for those whose livelihood is rooted in the ground and for whom terroir is everything, the debate e...
Alta Devices' long, patient day’s journey into light has solar company poised for groundbreaking success
Wednesday, 12 October 2011 Dan McCueWhen Silicon Valley flat panel solar company Alta Devices Inc. announced last March that it had raised $72 million (€52.2 million) in venture funding, many in the sector sat up and took notice.
SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith on federal loan guarantees and building the largest CSP plant in the US
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 Dan McCue They don’t have good cell phone coverage on the outskirts of Tonopah, Nevada, but soon, the former silver-mining town located about halfway between Las Vegas and Reno will be home to one of the Unit...
A conversation with professor Subodh Mhaisalkar
How Singapore became a leader in sustainability and where it’s headed next
Monday, 03 October 2011 Dan McCue Highly urbanized and with little in the way of natural resources, the city-state of Singapore might have once seemed like an unlikely place to prosper in the 21st Century, let alone become a world lea...
Are ebikes finally close to having their day in the US?
Tuesday, 20 September 2011 Dan McCue A team of riders from Optibike, the US-based electric bike manufacturer, successfully defended its title in the “Assault on the Peak Hill Climb” up Pikes Peak, one of the more storied of the Rocky...
Could Scotland become a global wave and tidal energy leader?
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