Freak ice storm strikes western Canada.
| Asbestos Use Today: information from a reader Asbestos is still imported and used in the U.S. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. imported and used an estimated 1,820 tons of asbestos in 2007; see this PDF file from the USGS, please click only if you want to download the PDF. Also, the U.S. House of Representatives is considering a [.]  |
Worlds Most Ambitious Solar Plan in LA The city of Los Angles is taking up the world’s most ambitious solar power project. Till date this project will be the largest solar power plan started by any city in the world. They are planning to install 1.3 Giga Watts (GW) of solar power and register their city’s name in the book of [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Industry, Solar Power |
| Freak ice storm strikes western Canada. An unusual bout of warm winter weather turned snow into freezing rain Monday in western Canada, coating much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan provinces in ice, snapping power lines and halting travel. |
Dow Corning Alternative Energy Survey Alternative Energy & Carbon Footprinting: International Survey Reveals Business Attitudes. Companies attitudes towards alternative energy and carbon footprinting are revealed in the results of an international research study. The survey was conducted by the independent market research company Harris Interactive on behalf of Dow Corning Corporation. Survey Results SummaryAlternative Energy1 in 4 companies are [.]Posted in: Industry, Politics |
Every Color Of The Rainbow Is An Energy Source We have all enjoyed watching rainbows and at some point wanted to travel to the end of them for those fabled pots of gold. We can make out the distinct seven colors of the rainbows. But what we see as colors are actually different frequencies or energy levels of the sunlight. A solar panel [.]Posted in: Future Energy, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power |
| New Record Solar Cell 41.1% Efficient Solar Cell Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have achieved a record efficiency of 41.1% for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. Using concentrated sunlight focused onto a small 5 mm |