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Archive for July, 2010

Metroradruhr: Germany’s Ruhr Valley Inter-City Bike Sharing

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by Russell Meddin Metroradruhr bike racks (via Bike-Sharing Blog) This summer brings a new regional bike-sharing system, Metroradruhr, to ten industrial Ruhr valley cities. Started on June 18th in Dortmund, Germany the system has now reached five of ...

Mitsubishi i-Miev in the city

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Bikestation: Growing US Cycling One Bike Spa at a Time

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by Nadia Hosni Our progressive and environmentally aware neighbors across the pond have been peddling for years. Take Amsterdam for example, the city is known for its two-wheeled transportation system, powered solely by human energy. ...

Mapping Soil Sequestration Hotspots in the UK

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Research project to identify the best UK locations for biomass crops. by Roger East When and where is it really smart to use farmland for energy crops? A research team has set out to improve our knowledge of ...

EV charging station recharges without wires

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SuperBetter: The Ignite Talk and a Kickstarter Project

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by Jane McGonigal This week, I celebrated the one-year anniversary of my traumatic brain injury. I might not have made it without the game I invented to help cure it. Here's a 5-minute Ignite talk that I gave ...

Compelling Policy, Answer People, and a Goldfish in Your Ear

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Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 The Real Green Building Challenge: Creating Policy That Works Sarah Kuck argues that the time for heralding each new green building as a symbol of sweeping change ...

Compelling Policy, Answer People, and a Goldfish in Your Ear

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Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging: 2009 The Real Green Building Challenge: Creating Policy That Works Sarah Kuck argues that the time for heralding each new green building as a symbol of sweeping change ...

Nevada, Sicily to find staying power in molten salt

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Solar thermal seeks U.S. breakthrough

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Eco-idea du jour: Shrink-wrapped people

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MyEnergySolution.com Helping San Diego Residents Go Solar

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First Month With Solar Nets 2,600 Electric Car Miles

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Has Solar Become Mainstream?

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Certification Requirements Could Hinder UK Solar Market

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According to EUPD Research, an organization that is studying the UK PV market, an important aspect of the feed-in tariff (FIT) regulation could stymie growth of the solar market in the UK.

Utility-scale Battery Research Underway

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What happens when the U.S. government awards DuPont, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bosch, and 3M $1.6 million to develop a longer-lasting, less expensive way to store clean energy? We will soon find out.

US Company Sending Wind Energy Parts To China

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The Timken Company yesterday announced that it had received a contract worth US$26 million to supply wind turbine products and services to China's Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company, one of the top five wind power equipment manufacturers in the ...

Audio Interview: The Future of Thin-film Solar Cell Manufacturing, Chris Eberspacher

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Eberspacher summarizes sessions on thin-film photovoltaics and PV fab management from Intersolar NA 2010.

Audio Interview: The Future of Thin-film Solar Cell Manufacturing, Chris Eberspacher

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Eberspacher summarizes sessions on thin-film photovoltaics and PV fab management from Intersolar NA 2010.

Audio Interview: eIQ Energy Partners with Shoales to Reduce BoS Costs

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Michael Lamb tells editor Debra Vogler how the company's vBoost technology and its partnership announcement with Shoales will address reduced balance-of-system (BoS) costs.