NSTAR Sponsors MIT Clean Energy Competition
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
NSTAR and the United States Department of Energy are teaming up once again with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to sponsor the MIT Clean Energy Prize - a national student competition to accelerate the pace of clean energy entrepreneurship. This prestigious competition provides much-needed capital resources and support to help the next generation of entrepreneurs commercialize ... read more
Stimulus To Drive Wind Expansion
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
Wind energy companies remained among market leaders last year by posting strong gains in 2008 in spite of a major down turn in market growth. According to the American Wind Energy Association, energy produced by wind generation grew 50% and created over 13,000 new jobs in 2008. The stimulus plan passed by the House of Representatives includes the extension of $13 billion in tax ... more
Making Sense Of New Energy Paradigm
New York NY (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
Companies and private users, as well as public agencies, can ensure that their future energy needs are met safely and securely by "thinking outside the grid," according to a new book by one of the energy and technology industries' pre-eminent thought leaders, Ronald H. Bowman, Jr., Executive Vice President of Tishman Technologies Corporation. In The Green Guide to Power: Thinking Outside ... more
Learn About The US Specialty Fuel Additives Market
New York NY (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
Demand for specialty fuel additives in the US is forecast to increase 2.2 percent annually to $1.2 billion in 2012, with volume demand exceeding 750 million pounds. Gasoline detergents have been one of the most dynamic segments of the industry over the past decade and will continue to offer opportunities, especially for better performing products. Diesel additives are expected to see the ... more
Focus On The US Batteries Market
New York NY (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
US demand for primary and secondary batteries will increase 2.0 percent annually to $16.4 billion in 2012. Increases will be supported by the rising use of battery-powered products such as digital cameras, portable music players and laptop computers. In addition, the expected recovery in motor vehicle production will support demand for batteries. Market gains will also be assisted by an on ... more
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BioSolar Progresses To Next Stage Of BioBacksheet Pre-Production
Santa Clarita CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
BioSolar reports that results of testing on BioBacksheet samples from the first pre-production runs have been consistent and satisfactory; which gets the company one step closer to full scale commercial production. The BioBacksheet, a protective covering for photovoltaic solar cells made from renewable plant sources, rather than the expensive petroleum-based film currently in use, is ... more
Act Now To Harness The Sun And The Winds
London, UK (SPX) Feb 10, 2009
According to Oxford Intelligence's "Renewable Energies 2008", a study of top executives in Renewable Energy companies worldwide and their plans for international development over the next 2-5 years, government policy remains the major motor for the successful implementation of international strategies. Pro-Renewables policies will clearly support technology companies in the race to meet ... more
Walker's World: The flawed stimulus bill
Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2009
In October 2008 Barack Obama as presidential candidate and his top economic advisers were already talking openly of the need for a massive economic stimulus to haul the country out of recession. Some even talked in terms of $700 billion and more.
They had the transition period of most of November, all of December and three weeks in January to plan and draft the package. So it must be ... more
Syncrude faces fines for duck deaths
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 9, 2009
Canadian environmental authorities on Monday charged Syncrude in the death of 500 migrating ducks that landed in its oil sands sewage ponds in western Canada. The waterfowl died after being coated in April 2008 with toxic oil residue from an Alberta mine left behind in the ponds by Syncrude Canada Limited, the world's largest producer of synthetic crude oil from oil sands. Officials ... more
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