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• Direct Current Brings Remote Offshore Wind Farm to Germany

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 502
  ABB has joined forces with German utility company Transpower to link the worlds most remote offshore wind farm to the German power grid. Essentially, its a 120 mile-long connection--the longest cable-route built for a grid connection to a wind farm in the world. It connects the park using 400 megawatt high-voltage ...
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• TNR Gold / International Lithium is on Jay Taylors Watch List TNR.v, CZX.v, MAI.v, SQM, FMC, ROC, WLC.v, RM.v, LI.v, CLQ.v, AVL.to, RES.v, QUC.v, TTM

  
  Sufiy. — Authority: 132
  After San Francisco Hard Asset Conference TNR Gold and International Lithium have gained attention of Jay Taylor - "one of the most respected, independent analysts in the North American mining and energy sectors." Company is building credibility and momentum in delivering its story to the market place. Jays ...
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• Save The Giant Rear Wings, Save The World [I Feel Gassy]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 732
  Conventional wisdom states all rear wings do on FWD cars is increase drag and reduce fuel economy. Chinese designer Leon Zhu wants to challenge that notion, using the vast empty space inside them to store a solar shade. Think of it as a giant version of the 2010 Toyota Priuss solar sunroof combined with those ...
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• Cold Storage: Energy Dept. Grants to Boost Renewable-Energy Storage

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 708
  Stimulus moneys been pouring into the smart grid. Now some is coming to the energy-storage game as well.
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• Its Finally Official - Indias National Solar Mission Aims for 20 Gigawatts Solar Power by 2022

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  photo: Ryan DSouza via flickr. Rumors and draft reports have been circulating about Indias National Solar Mission plan since early summer, but the program has finally been officially announced. Approved just in time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs visit with President Obama , the plan aims for 20 gigawatts on ...
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• Worlds First Osmotic Power Plant

  
  LinkNotes — Authority: 125
  clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Norways Statkraft opens first osmotic power plant The worlds first power project that generates energy by mixing fresh water with sea water has opened in Norway. The Norwegian renewable power company Statkraft has built a prototype osmotic power plant on the Oslo fiord. ...
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• China Beachhead: More Government Support for Chinese Clean-Energy Exports

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 708
  China ups the ante in the clean-tech battles with fresh government support for clean-energy exports.
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• Rethinking Clean Energy Innovation

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  With energy demand growing quickly, development of clean energy technologies cannot afford to be undertaken in silos, a new report says.
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• Freeing the Grid — Building Local Solar Markets, One State At A Time

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 432
  It’s that time of year again … no, not when turduckens appear on dinner tables nationwide and it becomes somehow acceptable to call the marshmallow a vegetable. It’s time for the 2009 edition of “ Freeing the Grid ,” an annual report card to states on their net metering and interconnection standards. ...
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• Australia, Drunk on Coal, Remains Worlds Largest Carbon Emitter

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Photo: ABC Online The other week both Brian and Matthew posted on the report from the Global Carbon Project that showed carbon dioxide emissions had risen 2% in 2008, even when the economy was supposed to be slowing. What their posts didnt mention, was that Australia has retained its unenviable position as the ...
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• Water pump heats water without using gas or electricity

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 141
  Water heaters perform a very important task each day in our lives. But have we ever thought about how much electricity gets consumed while heating or cooling the water. If not electricity, some time even gas might be used for heating purposes. Very precious are fuels in such crucial times and we should take every step ...
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• Detroit puts the wheels on solar manufacturing

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 415
  In Monday’s Los Angeles Times, I write about the migration of renewable energy firms from California and the Southwest to the nation’s industrial heartland to tap the down-and-out region’s manufacturing might: At a recent solar energy conference in Anaheim, economic development officials from Ohio talked up a ...
  15 hours ago

• First Osmotic Power Plant Opens in Norway

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 502
  The worlds first osmotic power plant has recently opened in Oslo, Norway. A company called Statkraft unveiled a small scale prototype of an osmotic power plant yesterday. The project will not be able to produce a great amount of energy; initial production is expected to be around 2 to 4 kilowatts. But according to ...
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  Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority: 146
  
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• Buffalo Sun City, Part Two: Hydro-Powered Solar Silicon Factory Re-Opens in Niagara Falls

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 416
  The tentative greening of Greater Buffalo was a favorite subject of mine in my early days at gbNYC, mostly because Im a sucker for underdogs and any good news -- be it about the ultra-moribund Buffalo Bills or an attempt to remake the city as a solar manufacturing hub -- about Greater Buffalo always kind of counts ...
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• On Our Radar ...

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  Wind power in Kenya, hacked e-mail messages, and other energy and environmental news from around the Web.
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• Corn gets hammered at the opening

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 132
  Corn futures took a punch right out of the box when trading opened this morning on the Chicago Board of Trade. After an hour the December contract was down 9 cents to $3.79 per bushel. Analysts said hedge funds took profits at the end of trading Monday, knocking out what had appeared to be a promising rally near $4. ...
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• CCS: A Pathway To Cleaner Coal And Enhanced Energy Security

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  Take a second to list the top green energy sources. I bet coal didnt make your list. It should. New technologies being developed - including carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) - have the potential to make coal not just our most abundant and affordable energy source, but a green one too. Today coal provides ...
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• Green Business and Indigenous Rights

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  Climate change mitigation must not come at the expense of indigenous peoples rights, a new report asserts.
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• Electricity Out Of The Blue - Worlds First Osmotic Power Plant Opens in Norway

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 719
  all images: Statkraft If you havent heard of osmotic power , youre very much forgiven. Though Norways Statkraft has been researching the technology -- which generates power by exploiting the hydrostatic pressure created when fresh water passes through a special membrane into salt water -- since 1997, only now ...
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