Popular solar industry exhibition, Intersolar North America will be held in San Francisco from July 9 to 12, 2012. The conference provides an excellent platform for solar professionals to share information and develop business prospects in the American solar market. The exhibition, which is in its fifth year, will be co-located with SEMICON West. About 900 exhibitors and over 22,000 visitors from more than 80 countries are expected to grace the event.
By Nick Gilbert
30 May 2012
Yellow Cab of Pittsburgh has announced that it has unveiled taxi cabs powered by propane. This company is a division of the Pittsburgh Transportation Group (PTG). The primary group of around 55 cabs would have been subjected to the conversion in the presence of Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor of Pittsburgh today.
By Nick Gilbert
30 May 2012
Weatherproofing Technologies (WTI), a subsidiary of Tremco, has reported that work will be commenced on the company’s largest solar power project located in the Neshaminy School District of Pennsylvania.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
Noora Veijalainen, a hydrologist working at the Finnish Environment Institute, applied a number of climate scenarios and hydrological models to evaluate the effects of climate change on floods, discharges and water levels in Finland.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
Canadian Solar, a premium solar company, has supplied solar modules for the biggest solar park in Hesse, the German city of Dreieich-Buchschlag.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
According to a new report titled ‘Strategic Analysis of Plastics in the Electric Vehicles Market in Europe and North America’ from Frost & Sullivan, the market reached $0.5 million in revenues in 2010 and is expected to reach a value of $73 million by 2017.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
29 May 2012
Denis Lebel, the Honorable Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has declared that the Government of Canada is continually committed in developing clean vehicle technologies.
By Nick Gilbert
29 May 2012
The National Trust has declared that six people have won the Octavia Hill Awards at a special ceremony conducted in London. The green heroes included an intrepid volunteer youth worker, a productive drystone waller and a prominent TV walker. The awards were sponsored in association with Countryfile Magazine.
By G.P. Thomas
29 May 2012
Global Energy instituted the project Energy of Adventure in November 2011 and the winners of the nationwide contest are two young Russians, awarded with a round-the-world trip to discover the most fascinating energy-related stories globally. Maria Khromova and Egor Goloshov are the two winners, a power-industry professional and a future economist respectively.
By G.P. Thomas
29 May 2012
AWimbledon, UK-based car insurance service provider, MotorQuoteDirect is examining the impact of the set fuel increase on the public, as there has been a boost in green car purchases.
By Nick Gilbert
29 May 2012
In 2010, Earth-observing satellite CryoSat was launched to measure the thickness of sea ice in the Arctic region, but data from the satellite have also been used for other studies. Now, high-resolution measuring of the topography of the ocean surface has been added to the repertoire of ice mission. The main purpose of the polar-orbiting satellite is to evaluate polar sea ice’s thickness and monitor variations in the ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland.
By G.P. Thomas
29 May 2012
A new network is being set up to study greenhouse gases over the Amazonian rainforest. The international network will evaluate the possibilities of remote sensing of these gases to improve the understanding of Amazonian tropical carbon fluxes and carbon cycle.
By G.P. Thomas
29 May 2012
Florida Cleantech Acceleration Network (FL-CAN), MegaWatt Ventures and Igniting Innovation (I2) Capital Acceleration Network introduce a two-day special event, Cleantech to Spacetech: Accelerating Florida Entrepreneurship.
By Nick Gilbert
28 May 2012
A research team from the University of Florida (UF) has fabricated a graphene solar cell that demonstrates a power conversion efficiency of 8.6%, a record value, when considering earlier attempts in the making of graphene solar cells that managed only 2.9% conversion efficiency.
By G.P. Thomas
28 May 2012
Artists and a University of Leicester geologist are to debate the present and future Earth - at a London railway station.