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  • CSP Floating Labs Under Construction in Switzerland

    Each floating laboratory is 25 metres in diameter and will carry 100 PV panels. Each panel will be back-to-back on a 45° incline. The islands can rotate 220° in the direction of the sun tracking it throughout the day. Their location on the water lowers its resistance, therefore increasing its effectiveness.

  • Have Shale Plays Hijacked Our Energy Future?

    “Ten percent of the Lower 48 has been leased by oil companies. That’s more acreage than we plant in corn and wheat. Oil and gas extraction is now the dominant land use on the continent.   “In short, shale plays are a peculiar sort of blessing. For sure, they’ve given us a staggering amount of…

  • How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth

    We received this letter and infographic from Allison Lee: “I am part of a team of designers and researchers that put together an infographic showing how bad climate change has gotten and how it’s contributing to the destruction of our planet. I thought you might be interested, so I wanted to reach out.”

  • Clean Energy Tech: PNNL Rolls Out Tech at ARPA-E

    Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will exhibit their work at the 2013 Energy Innovation Summit of high-impact energy research funded by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. The summit runs Feb. 25-27 at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Below is an overview of PNNL research that…

  • This Week in Energy News – February 22, 2013

    This week in Jetson Green Energy News, New York City is preparing for the next big storm and a California land rush could result in alternative energy providing the state with 100% of its power needs. Proposed: Four Miles of Manhattan’s East River to be Redeveloped with Storm Barrier WXY Architecture + Urban Design, working…