January 2012
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“I’d like to take a moment to be thankful for the people who are really...”
– (A thought I had today, in the wee hours of the morning)
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GE is Betting on Big Solar →
It’s good news for solar advocates and bad news for competitors: General Electric is breaking into the solar business in a major way. In April, GE announced it had built a solar module with the highest publicly reported efficiency rate for cadmium telluride thin film — the most popular low-cost solar technology. The commercial module topped out at 12.8%, according to independent...
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If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly... →
The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost for ever”, according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
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STEM Education Key to American Energy Independence →
Found an interesting interview with Tim Sutherland and Forbes. I completely agree:
In terms of energy, the first thing that comes to my mind is that Americans are not fully educated about the nature of energy policy and the energy business.
Hopefully this article, and some other things I’m trying to do online, will help spread some understanding of energy matters.
FYI:
In Tim...
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