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| Bellavista Rainforest Treehouse Community Is Endor on Earth |  |
| Finca Bellavista is an Endor-like treehouse village in the making, with paths and platforms perched on 150-foot trees. Located six miles from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, this sustainable rainforest community doesn`t have stupid Ewoks or shield generators, but cute monkeys, site-wide Wi-Fi with internet sat link and biodigestors running on solar power. |
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| Funds shun renewable energy | |
| "The primary objective for major Government-run funds is to maximise returns from their investment portfolios" AUSTRALIAN Government investment funds are putting nearly 50 times more money into the fossil fuel and uranium industries than into renewable energy, a new report has found. via The Sydney Morning Herald |
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| Boulder city manager recommends staying with Xcel Energy | |
| "There`s a very large range of possibilities" Questions about costs and Xcel Energy`s commitment to renewable energy have led Boulder officials to recommend that the city drop plans to take over the electric distribution system. via Denver Post Economy/Real Estate |
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| Desert Sunrise: Concentrating Solar Power Makes Worldwide Progress | |
| At the International Energy Agency`s biennial SolarPACES 2008, held this year in Las Vegas, there were many signs that the sleeping solar giant of the desert, Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), is waking up. |
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| The Army`s $10M Spy Bat Still Too Big | |
| Lucas123 writes "The University of Michigan`s Center for Objective Microelectronics and Biomimetic Advanced Technology (COM-BAT) is working on building a robot bat that would perform long-range reconnaissance for the U.S. Army, but U.Mich is currently struggling with miniaturizing components in order to make the bat small enough to be stealthy. `The focus is to shrink down many electronics that while currently available would only be good if the US Army wanted, say, a 12-foot spy-bat.` Some components need to be 1,000 times smaller than they currently are. The Army`s $10 million grant proposal calls for the bat to be six inches in length, weigh four ounces and use just one watt of power. The bat is supposed to be powered by a lithium-ion battery, charged by solar and wind energy, as well as simple vibrations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Fat Spaniel and EnerWorks Partner for Smart Solar Hot Water Systems | |
| Fat Spaniel Technologies, Inc., the market leader in providing monitoring and reporting services for distributed energy systems, today announced a partnership with renewable energy systems manufacturer EnerWorks Inc. to deliver smart solar hot water systems. The joint product offering integrates Fat Spaniel`s monitoring and reporting services with EnerWorks` award winning Solar Energy Units for commercial and industrial-scale hot water generation. The turnkey solution enables simplified installation, maintenance and billing to maximize return on investment for customers throughout North America. |
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| Navigant Consulting Accepting Participants for Renewable Energy Multi-Client Study: The Convergence of the Smart Grid with Photovoltaics | |
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| India can lead world in renewable energy: Al Gore | |
| "India has proven its capability in sectors like information technology and can be a leader in the world in developing new renewable technologies to combat climate change" India, as an advanced developing nation, can help lead the world in renewable energy technologies to solve "the climate change crisis," former US vice president and Nobel Peace winner Al Gore said. via Raw Story |
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| Developer to Build Europe`s Largest SolarWall® System in Latvia | |
| The Baltic country of Latvia will soon be home to the largest SolarWall(R) system in Europe. 22,000 ft2 (2,100 m2) of solar panels, delivering more than 1 MW of thermal energy, have been specified for heating and ventilation purposes at a new warehousing and distribution complex in Latvia. The installation is scheduled to be completed by the end of the summer, and the system will displace more than 400 tons of CO2 each year. |
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| Solar trumps shade in California prosecution of tree owners | |
| The Santa Clara County district attorney pressed criminal charges against Richard Treanor for the shade his redwoods cast on the solar panels that Mark Vargas uses for 100 percent of his home’s power. |
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