12/7/11: CLEANTECH 2012: NAVIGATING THE FUTURE | Mountain View, CA
Updated: 2011-11-08 09:08:27
There are eggshells across the cleantech industry for 2012 and the uncertainty is leaving many skeptical about the success anticipated for emerging technologies. The retreat of M&As and IPOs observed in the third quarter combined with a lack of seed and Series A financing rounds leave many asking the question: Where is cleantech headed? We [...]

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Guardian: With energy prices rising, turning household bills into political kryptonite and making the debate ever more fierce, it's worth reminding ourselves what this is all about.
It is, first and foremost, about cutting the emissions of greenhouse gases that are dangerously warming our planet down to a level deemed "safe". This is not an optional extra in the energy debate. If you think it is - that climate change is nothing to worry about - then you are on the wild fringes of the debate: not a single...
Guardian: Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a gate and climbed a crane Monday at a South African coal-fired power station to protest dependence on coal, weeks before the country hosts a global conference on climate change.
Melita Steele, a Greenpeace climate change expert, said the protest started at dawn Monday at the Kusile power station with activists chaining themselves to the gates of the construction site. Security guards later cut the chain. Steele said six activists climbed a crane at the...
New York Times: Thousands turned out on Sunday at the White House for a protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta some 1,700 miles to Texas. Opponents say that oil sands processing contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, and that the pipeline itself could threaten a precious aquifer.
Mongabay: China is currently involved in 289 hydroelectric projects worldwide, as reported by International Rivers. Most of the dams are planned for hydropower, and over half are considered 'large' projects. The list includes completed dams, one currently under construction, and ones in early planning stages.
While dams are often considered 'green' power, those in the tropics emit significant greenhouse gases from vegetation rotting in hydroelectric reservoirs. In fact, a recent study found that a dam in...
New York Times: The consequences of climate change for animals can seem very direct, as with polar bears in a warming Arctic. Others involve leaps, like the case of an invasive bullfrog: by 2080, it could splash into some of South America’s most ecologically rich protected areas, disrupting unique hotbeds of biodiversity. At least, that`s the prediction of a new study in the journal PLoS One.
Worldwide, researchers have increasingly been focusing on how a changing climate has altered or is likely to alter migration...
redOrbit: Emissions of carbon dioxide saw their largest ever single-year increase in 2010, with levels of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases surpassing the so-called "worst case scenario" that climate experts described just four years ago, various media outlets reported Friday.
According to Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Energy has determined that global carbon emissions increased 564 million tons from 2009 through 2010.
That 6% increase, says Borenstein, is larger than...
News Room America: A new study on greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations has calculated a more than 50% increase in levels of CO2 emissions than previously thought – and warned that the demand for 'green' biofuels could be costing the earth.
The study from the University of Leicester was conducted for the International Council on Clean Transportation, an international think tank that wished to assess the greenhouse gas emissions associated with biodiesel production.
Biodiesel mandates can increase...
New York Times: For decades, electric companies have swung into emergency mode when demand soars on blistering hot days, appealing to households to use less power. But with the rise of wind energy, utilities in the Pacific Northwest are sometimes dealing with the opposite: moments when there is too much electricity for the grid to soak up. So in a novel pilot project, they have recruited consumers to draw in excess electricity when that happens, storing it in a basement water heater or a space heater outfitted...
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Economist: AMID the wreckage of the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, an agreement that rich countries would, by 2020, furnish developing ones with $100 billion a year to help them mitigate and adapt to global warming looked like a rare achievement. This commitment will also be a big talking point at the next annual UN summit, due to start in Durban on November 28th. With almost no hope of a big new pact, many expect progress on the formation of a global Green Climate Fund to be one of its few successes. Yet...
New York Times: There’s nothing like a financial train wreck to draw a crowd.
This week`s auction for industrial assets, office equipment and company T-shirts owned by the failed solar manufacturer Solyndra, which we previewed in Tuesday`s Times, was wildly successful, according to Ross Dove, a managing partner at Heritage Global Partners, which conducted the two-day event.
“We had over 1,000 people at the factory and 2,500 online. We had people from Tunisia, Beijing, Shanghai,” he said.
“Usually, at an...
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Telegraph: China will ban imports and sales of 100-watt and higher incandescent bulbs from Oct. 1, 2012, the country's main planning agency said.
It will extend the ban to 60-watt and higher bulbs on Oct. 1, 2014, and to 15-watt and higher bulbs on Oct. 1, 2016. The time frame for the last step may be adjusted according to an evaluation in September 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission said.
State-run Xinhua News Agency quoted Xie Ji, deputy director of the commission's environmental protection...
By all accounts, the environment seems to be in peril. As years continue to pass, we continue to see the consequences of human-caused actions. Depletion of resources, climate change, and the extinction of species have been increasing on an alarming scale.
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New York Times: Two new peer-reviewed studies, one about forests and the other about oceans, predict that existing ecosystems will rearrange themselves over the next 70-plus years in response to global warming.
In one of the studies, to be published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, scientists from Oregon, Montana and British Columbia write that northwestern forests removed from the climatic buffering effect of the Pacific Ocean will transform themselves to adapt to less rainfall as well as warmer...
Associated Press: The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide has jumped by a record amount, according to the US department of energy, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.
The figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.
"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, the co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the...
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Deutsche Presse-Agenture: Growing investments in renewable energy sources and increasing political awareness in several key nations were positive signs of progress to tackle the challenges of climate change, a leading researcher said Thursday.
John Schellnhuber, head of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, made the assessment shortly before he was to accept the 2011 Volvo Environment Prize, worth 1.5 million kronor (228,000 dollars), at a ceremony in Stockholm.
The jury cited him for having 'applied...
Guardian: Developing countries must step up with concrete plans to cut carbon emissions to break the deadlock in beleaguered UN climate talks, China's top climate change official has told the Guardian.
With four weeks to go until the next round of long-running international talks in Durban, the move highlights China's attempt to take on a new leadership role by bridging the gulf between rich and poor countries.
But Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the Chinese government's National Development and Reform...
Guardian: Republicans in Congress have escalated their war with the White House over Solyndra, voting to subpoena officials to turn over all internal memos related to the bankrupt solar company.
In a 14-9 decision, the house energy and commerce committee voted to subpoena the White House chief of staff and other senior aides to Barack Obama for all their internal communications concerning the company.
Solyndra received $528m in federal government loans before going bankrupt and laying off more than 1,000...
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Data centers use a lot of electricity, much of it just to keep computers cool. Here are five creative ideas for recycling the machines' waste heat.
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America has traditionally been seen as lagging behind in the renewable energy race. European and Asian markets have consistently outstripped the US when it comes to alternative energy. Western Europe has had stricter regulation towards efficiency standards and renewable resources than the US for years, and China is proving to be a solar powerhouse, seeing [...]
: Tuesday , October 18, 2011 Renewable Energy Law News for Week of 10 17 Department of Energy Finalizes 4.8bn in Solar Loan Guarantees On the last day of its 1705 loan guarantees program , the US Department of Energy finalized support packages for four major solar projects on Friday , totaling almost 4.8 . billion US Energy Secretary Steven Chu confirmed awards for three huge solar power plants in California , and a transformational” project installing solar panels on 750 warehouse . rooftops 1.46 billion in partial guarantees when to the 550MW Desert Sunlight project , a 1.237 billion guarantee for the 250MW California Valley Solar Ranch project , and a 646 million for the 230MW Antelope Valley Solar Ranch . project Read more here State’s New Energy Department Taking Shape The plan to
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: Thursday , October 13, 2011 Renewable Energy Law News for Week of 10 10 Vermont Aims for 90 Renewable Energy by 2050 The Vermont Department of Public Service released a draft Comprehensive Energy Plan , calling for 90 of the state's energy to come from renewables by 2050. It replaces a 2008 plan that called for 25 renewable energy by 2050. The new plan addresses Vermont's electricity , thermal energy , transportation , and land . use Vermont is the first state in the Northeast to implement a feed-in tariff to promote renewable energy development , and last year , its legislature voted to retire the aging Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2012. Read more here Good for Wind : Administration Fast-tracks Transmission Projects In a move that stands to enable more wind development sooner , this