http://thinfilmsolarpanels.net Thin Film Solar Panels Are Here Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Given the state of the economy you’d think they’d be pinching every penny but it appears that the State of Arizona has money to burn – perhaps literally.  Last week the House voted in favor of a bill that would use old tires to fill abandoned mines.  The bill’s supporters ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/gRJkapVJsV0/ At the Wall Street Journal’s recent ECO:nomics conference, the “only CEO-level event focused on the relationship between the environment and the bottom line,” the CEOs of some major energy companies expressed their impatience at the US’ slow and unclear movement to take action on climate change and clean energy. Royal Dutch ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/d256CjaJrsk/ A Florida Power and Light hybrid of solar and gas at the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida could provide a road map for helping shepherd utility-scale solar past regulatory roadblocks. Perhaps by combining solar with fossil energy plants (that are always somehow on ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/2PlZlmzzC58/ China is reportedly planning to produce 15% of its electricity from low-carbon technology by 2020, and to reduce it’s carbon intensity by 40-45% from the 2005 level. Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, told the government-owned newspaper China Daily this last week that a national program consisting of billions ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/2Znl29hLarM/ A team of researchers at Yale University has developed a new kind of magnetic, lead free solder that could be used to manufacture electronics more cheaply and efficiently.  That would be a big boost for efforts to manage the growing problem of electronic waste disposal and recycling, because conventional solder ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/3VT0kGeNHdc/ Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/6VzztvEoMhc/ Republicans are supposed to be more of the “let the market take care of things” people. However, when it comes to an issue they don’t want to address at all, some of them are apparently even willing to make an attack on the financial market. A key to a well-functioning market ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/aPt73wpHFgQ/ A bus powered with solar energy. That gets my blood moving! SunPods Inc., a California-based manufacturer of modular, fully integrated and tested solar power generation systems, and Bauer Intelligent Transportation, a leading provider of chauffeured green transportation, recently teamed up to create what they say is the “first solar power-assist ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/dCnTn8UH0sc/ On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $600 million in awards for 191 transit projects across the nation. The transit projects are aimed at transforming the nation’s infrastructure and creating thousands of jobs. With this announcement, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) met its ambitious deadline ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/gQGjnZMIOX8/ …And this little piggy is facing an $11 million fine for inflicting “relentless and extreme” clouds of pig manure odor upon several families near a gigantic factory farm in Berlin, Missouri.  The award, which was announced on March 5, was decided by a jury against industrial hog producer Premium Standard ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cleantechnica/com/~3/AVYseb70zT0/