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dwp solar hotel

WENN 2 days ago

Solar-powered hotel lights up China The world's largest solar energy hotel has opened in Shandong, China. The Solar Valley Micro-E Hotel, in Dezhou, Shandong, has been constructed with thousands of permanent light panels which will provide 70 per cent of the building's ...

Climate 09 Transforming Earth

AP News 2 days ago

FILE - This Aug. 27, 2009 file photo shows a tractor preparing a field under wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Energy Facility near Spearville, Kan. World governments at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month are seeking to transform the ...

Clemson to get $98M for wind energy test facility

AP News 2 days ago

Clemson getting $98M for wind turbine test facility officials say could mean thousands of jobs Clemson University is getting nearly $100 million to study wind energy, funding that officials at the South Carolina school said Monday could eventually lead to thousands of ...

Praxair to sell gases to Chinese solar cell maker

AP News 3 days ago

Praxair's Chinese unit wins contract to sell gases to solar cell manufacturing company Praxair Inc.'s Chinese unit has signed a multiyear agreement to sell gases that MAGI Solar Energy Technology Co. will use to make solar cells and modules, Praxair announced Monday. ...

Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests

AP News 3 days ago

In nation's forests, push to develop bio-energy raises fears of wood demand exceeding supply Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will ...

Forests As Fuel

AP News 3 days ago

This Oct. 13, 2009 photo shows an official at Flambeau River Papers LLC in Park Falls, Wisc., holding a pellet made with wood waste and a small amount of plastic binder. Operators burn the pellets instead of coal to reduce air emissions. ...

Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater. Taking a step further in the planet's hunt for clean power, Norway is to unveil on ...

China harnesses mountain wind power

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

In the mountains above the southwestern Chinese town of Dali, dozens of new wind turbines dot the landscape -- a symbol of the country's sky-high ambitions for clean, green energy. At an altitude of 3,000 metres (9,800 feet), Dali Zhemoshan is the ...

Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice

AP News 6 days ago

Colorado governor paid $1.1 million to lobby state lawmakers; contracts under review At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy ...

Gap between India, U.S. emissions goals grows wider

Reuters Environmental Online Report 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and India's prime minister meet next week to talk about climate change the leaders will focus on green technologies rather than narrowing the global divide on greenhouse gas emissions goals, the chairman of the U.N.'s ...

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