http://thinfilmsolarpanels.net Thin Film Solar Panels Are Here Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The U.S. EPA has just announced that is is allocating an additional $16 million in funding for projects to reclaim brownfields, which are former industrial sites with varying degrees of contamination.  The funds are targeted to brownfields projects that create new green jobs in nearby communities. So far, the EPA’s brownfields/green ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/T_mi4xLkLGw/ What a difference a year makes.  In the spring of 2009, Governor Rick Perry famously suggested that Texas could secede from the United States, and he rejected federal money meant to recharge the state’s unemployment fund.  Fast forward to this summer, and the state’s capital city Austin is busy installing ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/ivWpJRWE-MU/ There are a lot of ways you can throw the blame after the horrible death of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, and the seeming death of a national Renewable Energy Standard (RES). You can blame: the Republican party and a broken Senate the media immoral billionaires Obama environmentalists a handful of Democratic senators (see ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/XP-irnbMS7I/ In a daring display of green chutzpah, a hair care products company called Zotos International, Inc. has seemingly come out of nowhere to grab the title of biggest wind energy generator of any U.S. manufacturer.  The company has just won approval install a $7 million, 3.3 megawatt wind power project ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/ylMzY__ltlM/ It gets mom and pop out of the oil drilling business, and that is a good thing. While undeveloped countries might have kids slaving over the kitchen fire melting electronics to mine them for lead – in a supposedly developed nation like this, competence should be a sine qua non in ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/42Nq91H4otQ/ I just wrote about the struggles of getting a Republican to support anything regarding clean energy in my post on PACE’s chances of getting into the upcoming energy bill. So, I won’t write at length about that again. But there’s still a struggle going on for another biggie that some ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/mFw-wZQoY60/ It is really quite sad what Republicans have done to the Senate and what they are doing to the country and the world as a result. Even conservatives Dick Schmalensee, who served on President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Jonathan Kay are calling out their colleagues and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/oItwtDw0B54/ July 28,2010 --Ucilia Wang says that, if the rise of the solar energy market is written as a fantasy novel, then the makers of copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) are members of a mythical clan from far far away that are reputed to be fierce warriors gather....... http://www.electroiq.com/ElectroIQ/en-us/index/display/article-display.articles.Photovoltaics-World.thin-film_solar_cells.cis_-cigs.2010.july.the-rise_of_cigs_--.QP129867.dcmp=rss.page=1.html July 28,2010 --Joseph McCabe, solar industry veteran, often gets the question, “which CIGS company is going to emerge as winner in the race towards high efficiency thin film PVs?” First Solar has set the benchmarks, and newer companies are coming ....... http://www.electroiq.com/ElectroIQ/en-us/index/display/article-display.articles.Photovoltaics-World.thin-film_solar_cells.cis_-cigs.2010.july.metrics-for_thin-film.QP129867.dcmp=rss.page=1.html The U.S. Navy is getting serious about solar energy and has just awarded five contracts worth up to $100 million for the design, installation and management of solar arrays at Navy and Marine Corps facilities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. This is by no means the first ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/BxU8VDPv9J4/