Google Reins in Spending on Renewable Energy Technology

Back in July Larry Page became Google’s new chief executive and immediately began a campaign to reign in Google’s projects and focus their resources. This was due to the stiff competition they were facing in mobile computing and social networking...

Eskom Embarks on Pilot Solar Project

Eskom has embarked on a pilot project that will see it using the power of the sun to generate electricity at three of its facilities.

UK-based Banks to Start Offering New Loans to Eligible Onshore Wind Farms

Three UK-based banks will start offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms today. Wind farm developers and the banks will have an opportunity to start brokering the deals at a forum in the city hosted by Ed Miliband and Chancellor Alistair Darling. The...

How Can Sustainable Energy Solve Global Warming? – Book Review

Overwhelmed by the greenhouse debate? Bamboozled by all the competing claims that renewable energy sources cannot supply 24-hours-a-day power (“base load”)? Depressed by the unending vastness of “the literature” on global warming...