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Posted 1 day ago
This is a fascinating new breakthrough: The University of North Dakota's Energy and Environment Research Center has announced that they have created the first 100 percent renewable domestic aviation f
Posted 1 day ago
There have been lots of exciting developments in the Midwest lately. Here are a few I've come across.The University of Minnesota at Morris has a new biomass gasification plant that burns biomass (corn
Posted 1 day ago
Our travels through South America were amazing - Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay. We hiked, ate and drank our way through most of it, getting to know some locals too. My Spanish major from college
Posted 2 weeks ago
I'm headed to South America tomorrow with the husband - we land in Santiago, Chile early Wednesday morning. A few days later (after tracking down a place that airs the VP debates!) we head to Cusco, P
Posted 3 weeks ago
On the ninth attempt this year, the Senate has finally passed the production tax credit (PTC) for renewable energy sources by a vote of 93-2. The only two voting against the extensions were Senators C
Posted 3 weeks ago
The Senate will vote today on the Baucus/Grassley Amendment to HR 6049, which has an extension of the production tax credit (PTC) for wind power through 2009. If it passes in the Senate, it will move
Posted 3 weeks ago
I know I haven't been very consistent with my posts these past few weeks: Traveling for work and loads of other obligations have kept me away. Plus, I'm headed to Philadelphia at the end of this week
Tags: solar
Posted 4 weeks ago
I like transmission. A lot. I'm fascinated by the smart grid technologies being developed and even the policies and transmission highways we'll need to build to a) bring the U.S. electric system i
Posted 4 weeks ago
Good news from Minnesota-based 3M Corporation (NYSE: MMM): It's diving into the cleantech sector. 3M's been inventing and manufacturing technologies that improve renewable energy for years but just a
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