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Cooking With Solar Power Inside Your House

12:57 pm in cooking, solar, solar power, solar thermal power by TreeHugger

solar cooker inside house photo Images credit Solare Bruecke One of the inconveniences of solar cooking is that it is, well, inconvenient to have to go outside when you would rather be in your kitchen, doing other things while the pot is cooking. Kris de Decker of No-Tech magazine shows a very clever design from Solare Brücke, which was founded in 1992 " to contribute to balancing global inequalities and to promote the dissemintation of renrewable energies....Read the full story on TreeHugger

California Conservationists & Developers Begin Court Proceedings Over 399 MW Solar Power Plant

12:27 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, california, conservation, renewable energy, solar power by TreeHugger

via internet business politics Bound to rile people up so keep your knee-jerk in check: Mercury News reports on another example of the needs of balancing the equally pressing (and interlinked) needs of expanding renewable energy projecting and conservation. The Santa Clara Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and a group of local residents are suing to block construction of a 399 MW solar power plant on 3,200 acres in the Panoche Valley in California. Those opposed say the project w...Read the full story on TreeHugger

You Can Go Green and Get Rich Too. I Hope.

9:41 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, economics, poverty, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, wind energy by TreeHugger

getting rich going green photo Image credit: Larry Page, used under Creative Commons license. When I posted an interview with wind energy pioneer Dale Vince, one Facebook commenter took issue with my references to his "hippie dropout" past, and the fact that he is now on Britain's rich list. The idea that we should be impressed by how his "...Read the full story on TreeHugger

How a Wind Energy Empire Was Built. Join Live Chat with Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince. Today, August 9th 10am EDT, 3pm UK.

10:46 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, cars, electric cars, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, vegan, wind energy by TreeHugger

dale vince wind energy photo Image credit: Ecotricity Dale Vince is not your ordinary business man. He built a wind energy empire that got him on Britain's rich list. He has just launched one of Britain''s biggest solar farms (that nurtures bees too). And he is creating a nationwide network of free electric car charging stations. He's...Read the full story on TreeHugger

GE Invests Up to $40 Million in eSolar, Takes Partnership to Next Level

4:10 pm in alternative energy, News, solar power by TreeHugger

esolar-2453453-photo Photo: eSolar Concentrating Solar Power Investment GE and eSolar were already business partners thanks to a licensing agreement with GE Energy, but they've decided to take their relationship to the next level and tie the knot more officially. GE is doing a "strategic investment" of up to $40 million in the Pasadena company. GE no doubt likes concentrating solar power (CSP) because it integrates well with natural gas (GE is a gas turbine maker)......Read the full story on TreeHugger

When Picking Solar Power Options, It’s the Water, Stupid

11:00 am in alternative energy, Science & Technology, solar power, water crisis by TreeHugger

via internet science tech A great post at CleanTechnica takes a closer look at solar power's water use, and the ups and downs of environmental cost versus financial cost. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Japan’s Internet Giants "Clash" Over Solar. Everybody Wins.

10:28 am in Business & Politics, economics, japan, renewable energy, solar, solar power by TreeHugger

japanese internet businesses solar image Image credit: Softbank and Rakuten The tragic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan seems to have transformed the nation's relationship to energy. Tokyo's citizens have already slashed energy use by 15%, and from plans for solar on all new buildings to theRead the full story on TreeHugger

"Secret Millionaires" Launch US$45m Fund for Free Solar Panels

8:47 am in alternative energy, economics, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom by TreeHugger

via internet science tech Want solar panels but don't want to pay for them? Feed-in tariffs have already enabled free solar for schools programs in the UK, and in the US folks are enjoying solar for no money down thanks to innovative leasing schemes. Now Business Green reports a similar scheme is offering at least UK£30m (about US$45m) of funding for free solar panels. (Some ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Hippy Dropout Becomes Wind Energy Mogul

1:00 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, wind power by TreeHugger

dale vince wind energy entrepreneur photo Image credit: Ecotricity Dale Vince has been busy lately. From launching a network of nationwide free electric car charging stations, to building a bee-friendly utility-scale solar power plant, this former hippy traveler turned wind energy millionaire has been pushing the boundaries of renew...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Solar Phone Charger Aims At The Poor

12:50 pm in cell phones, electronics, gadgets, Science & Technology, solar power by TreeHugger

solar charger image Image via Nokero International Noting that "500 million of the world's cell phone owners have no access to electricity," a Hong Kong and Denver-based company is touting its solar-power charging panels as specially designed to remain affordable and viable "to users who live in off-grid, often impoverished regions of the world."...Read the full story on TreeHugger