THIN FILM SOLAR PANELS

Archive for March, 2010

Wow! Ted Turner’s newest renewable investment firm;  Southern Turner Renewable Energy has wasted no time in signing its first solar plant, a 30 MW thin film PV project they just contracted from First Solar, within months after opening their doors for business.

Construction will start this month.

The brand new company began business last month to develop and invest in large-scale solar photovoltaic projects throughout the US Southwest.  It is a very smart alliance between CNN media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, who owns more land than any other individual in the US, and is an avid environmentalist – and Southern Company, an energy generation giant attempting to develop a greener sensibility. (more…)

When you mash green jobs together with affordable housing and recycled plastic, something interesting is bound to happen, and it’s happening in Wales.  The Welsh company Affresol has launched a line of  low cost homes and modular buildings that use recycled plastic as a core structural material.  Affresol plans to market some of its product as homes that can fulfill community affordable housing needs while creating new green jobs in recycling.

Affresol’s primary innovation is Thermo Poly Rock, a material composed mainly of recycled mixed plastics, which pours and sets like concrete.  According to Affresol, Thermo Poly Rock has a number of advantages over concrete, but its main contribution could be a sustainable approach to housing in which homes are built on a semi-temporary basis with life cycle in mind.

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Helsinki is pioneering the worlds most advanced municipal heating system. A century ago, New York City put in an early form of this kind of district heating: the steam that gasps from ancient downtown loft radiators in the middle of winter nights is the remaining evidence.

But that was before the computer age. A new twist on district heating is being pioneered by Finland in its capital city, Helsinki. (more…)

All-things-green website TreeHugger is hosting its 2nd Annual “Best of Green” awards competition.

This year, CleanTechnica has been nominated in the “Best Sci-Tech Blog” category.

I’m sure all of us here would appreciate it if you made your way over to the “Best of Green 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards: Science & Technology” page and voted for our blog.

You can vote once a day until April 2!

Our sister site Gas2.0 has also been nominated under the “Best Transportation Website” category — I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a vote either.

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All-things-green website TreeHugger is hosting its 2nd Annual “Best of Green” awards competition.

This year, CleanTechnica has been nominated in the “Best Sci-Tech Blog” category.

I’m sure all of us here would appreciate it if you made your way over to the “Best of Green 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards: Science & Technology” page and voted for our blog.

You can vote once a day until April 2!

Our sister site Gas2.0 has also been nominated under the “Best Transportation Website” category — I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a vote either.

(more…)