As the margins of the international air industry grow ever narrower, both in terms of cost/return ratios and the carbon dioxide impact which fleets of heavy super jets crisscrossing the globe have on the atmosphere, US biofuel company Solarzyme Inc. has announced it will partner with Qantas to begin supplying the airline with high-quality renewable jet fuel, refined using an algae-based fermentation process.
Campbell’s Soup in the USA will be a little more environmentally friendly as a result of solar power providing energy for its operations in Napoleon, Ohio.
Hanwha SolarOne, formerly known as Solarfun, has announced an agreement to supply 54MW of solar panels to SunEdison this year.
Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency announced a short time ago an independent Climate Commission, to be headed by Professor Tim Flannery.
Through an emerging branch of technology called plasmonics, the study of the interaction of light and metal, a team of Stanford researchers believe they can more effectively trap light within thin solar cells using a honeycomb “waffle” type approach.
Greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in Australia’s eastern states has fallen says the latest report from the Climate Group – and increased uptake of renewable energy sources such as solar power are partly responsible.
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Secretary, Chris Huhne, says he will review the country’s feed-in tariff (FIT) system
Despite instability in regard to various solar incentives in Australia, including a reduction in solar panel rebates in the months ahead, market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan predicts continued high growth in wind and solar energy projects across the nation.
Sempra Generation’s Mesquite Solar 1 project in Arizona will be constructed using hundreds of thousands of Suntech polycrystalline solar modules.
Grassroots political activist group GetUp! is urging Prime Minister Gillard not to slash solar power funding to help pay for flood damage recovery, but to take it from fossil fuel subsidies – and by closing one tax loophole for polluters in particular.
