Young Inventor Dreams of Qatar the Solar Giant
If Qatar succeeds in its quest to become a leading global sustainability laboratory, Qataris will have inventors like Hashim Al Sada to thank.
If Qatar succeeds in its quest to become a leading global sustainability laboratory, Qataris will have inventors like Hashim Al Sada to thank.
The United States Navy will use a biofuel blend to fuel both aircraft and warship during a Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, the globe’s largest naval war games, next year near Hawaii.
UPS recently rolled out 130 new Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) in New York, New Jersey and California as part of the company’s “rolling laboratory” approach to transportation.
Eight months after the massive earthquake and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan still faces questions about its energy infrastructure. Fuel cells could be one option.
One of SK’s futuristic buildings in north Seoul, the T Tower, hosts T.um, or “Ubiquitous Museum.” The tour is part Avatar, part futuristic living room and also provides a view of how our transportation options are going to change.
In my latest article on The Guardian Sustainable Business, I discuss how Korean farmers are among those participating in an experiment that shows how Korea is leading the smart grid revolution.
At a fundamental level, Solyndra’s bankruptcy shows the perils of the government offering subsidies, loans, or tax credits to favored companies.
With future energy efficiency concerns an issue, Maine’s Republican-dominated legislature passed An Act to Improve Maine’s Energy Security earlier this year.
Argentina, along with much of Latin America, is making progress on leveraging clean energy as a means towards greater energy independence.
We are a long way away from solar becoming as cheap as petroleum–despite VP Biden’s optimism–but laboratories like NREL are critical for research and development if the United States will ever move towards greater energy independence.
While many clean energy advocates and investors around the world laud German innovation and watch China’s surge in the development of technologies such as solar and wind energy, Korea has continued its commitment to boosting its clean energy sector.
It was not that long ago when T. Boone Pickens ranked up there on television air time with the Snuggie and the Ped Egg. His commercials, or infomercials, promised that the wind corridor in the central United States, paired with natural gas, would wean the U.S. off of fossil fuel imports and push the country towards energy independence. Now the wind part of the plan is dead.