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Thermopower Waves: A New Discovery at MIT
Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling "thermopower waves." A...
GoodCompany "Un-Panel" at GreenSpaces NY
Last week's GoodCompany Ventures event at the TriBeCa, NY, offices of Green Spaces brought together some of the top minds in early stage and patient capital investing, including Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jacob Gray from...
Industry Reps at MIT Energy Conference: Give Us a Price on Carbon
The message from industry leaders attending the MIT Energy Conference this weekend is clear: "Give us a clear price on carbon." John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, has long been a proponent of cap-and-trade. He reiterated this support this morning in...
While We Consider, China Constructs
When Duke Energy and ENN Group announced their partnership to accelerate development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Duke CEO Jim Rogers explained that "We must move at 'China speed' to...
Wisdom from Wharton: Cleantech Talk
"Twenty years from now, we will look back on how we get energy the same way we look back at how we got information twenty years ago," Steve Cohen said in launching the first of two cleantech panels at last Friday's Wharton Entrepreneurship...
Global Yawning: De Boer Resigns; Should UN Get Out of Climate Biz?
The UN's top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, says he will leave his post after four years, reportedly to take a consulting position with KPMG, according the BBC News this morning. He will vacate the position at the end of June, only 5 months...
China Tops US in New Wind Installation
In the latest indicator that China will be eating our lunch on cleantech and renewable energy, the country has now taken the lead in new wind energy installed in 2009, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. China's 13,000 megawatts added...
IPCC's Pachauri Must Resign
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Times of London reports this morning that the head of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, was told that the IPCC assertion that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 was...
Pass or Fail? Obama's State of the Union and Clean Energy Future
Did President Obama pass or fail on energy in last night's State of the Union address? I wasn't watching, but I've read the transcript. Here are some of the choice bits: "We can put Americans to work today building the infrastructure...
Review: Ray Anderson's "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist"
"Will we bankrupt the future, or assure it?" Ray Anderson asks in his new book, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist. "Or should we find ways to create wealth sustainably through the efficient use of resources, renewable energy, and closed-loop...
IPCC Sucker Punches Itself, Again
Image by Getty Images via Daylife This is getting ridiculous. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is becoming its own worst enemy, providing more fodder for climate skeptics. The UN's top climate authority issued an apology...
Green Skeptic on Job Creation: FoxBusiness
I was on FoxBusiness yesterday, talking with Stuart Varney about the green jobs number that has come out from the Obama administration. There were three points I wanted to make on the subject: 1.) What qualifies as a green job? What counts? We...
