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Sigalon's Wind Power Soup
Tribes say no to large wind farms East Oregonian The Natural Resources Commission has twice met without coming to consensus over the potential use of smaller renewable energy sources — solar as well as wind — to supplement a landowner's electricity or natural gas power . Because of that stalemate, ...
Sigalon's Wave Power Soup
Wave Power 'Sea Snake' Inventor Honored EarthTechling by Paul Willis The inventor of an iconic wave energy device has been honored for his contribution to the marine renewables sector. Richard Yemm, pictured below at right, is the founder of Pelamis Wave Power . His company makes giant wave machines that ...Sigalon's Solar Power Soup
Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, said author Margaret Taylor, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who conducted the study w
First Solar Posts Disappointing Q1 Results First Solar, which recently announced it was shuttering its Germany facility, idling lines in Malaysia and laying off 30 percent of its global workforce, detailed some of the struggles facing the company with its quarterly report.