In recession era Europe, much talk is of ‘innovative’ or ‘alternative’ financing for sustainable energy â€" meaning money other than the public purse. In 2012 crowdfunding in Europe saw an estimated 65 % growth compared to 2011 and reached €735 million. With industry insiders Massolution forecasting an 81 % increase in global crowdfunding volumes in 2013, it looks like crowdfunding might just...
Genovation Cars Behind Advanced EV Battery Research Project
We interrupt our all-Tesla-all-the-time programming for this special announcement: Genovation Cars, a company that all but dropped off the radar a couple of years ago, is partnering in a new hybrid EV battery research project that combines a high density battery pack with an ultracapacitor pack and a DC/DC converter...
Energy Storage On Silicon Chips — New Supercapacitor Creates Interesting Possibilities For Solar Cells
Batteries
Published on October 30th, 2013 |
by Nathan
The first supercapacitor composed of silicon was recently created by researchers...
Record Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency From A “Perfect Crystalâ€
Research
Published on October 28th, 2013 |
by Tina Casey
Gallium is already on its way to becoming the workhorse of the solar tech field,...
Can the EUETS Combine Intensity-Based and Absolute Emissions Caps?
An innovative reserve mechanism for the EUETS is being considered that moves allowances to and from the reserve based on the level of economic activity. This would give the EUETS elements of an intensity based cap (limiting emissions per unit of output) within an absolute cap (limiting total tonnes emitted).  Although...
Acidification: The Ocean's Changing Climate
Scientists overwhelmingly agree that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere cause global temperatures to rise. This has detrimental impacts for the environment due to changes in climate patterns. The increase in ocean temperatures, particularly within the last 50 years, is assumed to contribute to stronger...
Energy Efficiency Firms Lead Worldwide Clean Technology List
Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San FranciscoThe new Global Cleantech 100 list of private companies breaking barriers with their clean technology ideas and executions across the worldwide economy finds that energy efficiency companies not only continue to dominate the list, but are growing in influence.   For...
The Radical Right Wing Is Becoming An Unlikely Advocate For Solar Power
Clean Power
Published on October 25th, 2013 |
by Guest Contributor
Originally published on ClimateProgressby Ryan Koronowski Readers...
Catabolic Ephemeralization? Carson versus Greer
Last week, Kevin Carson, a political historian and theorist of the Mutualist tradition, took issue with the concept of catabolic collapse, a term coined a few years ago by the author John Michael Greer. Greer responded; the exchange that followed provided an illuminating look at two views of the future that actually share...
Rising Energy Costs Lead to Recession; Eventually Collapse
How does the world reach limits? This is a question that few dare to examine. My analysis suggests that these limits will come in a very different way than most have expectedâ€"through financial stress that ultimately relates to rising unit energy costs, plus the need to use increasing amounts of energy for additional purposes:To...
Burning the Carbon Sink
My home is burning at the moment. Not the bricks and mortar I live in here in the UK, but the place I call home. The coastal region of New South Wales. In fact there is a 750 ha fire about 20km from my parents’ house as I write this.Bush fires are part of life in Australia, and they always have been.  But the fires at the...
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