Ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and the Earth’s glaciers and ice caps enough to cover the US with a 1.5 feet deep layer.
Mixed Greens: Savanna burning added to CFI
Carbon Farming Initiative adds savanna burning methodology; Infigen questions NSW wind farm noise audits; Apple reveals size of solar array for US data centre.
How an ‘electric leaf’ could supercharge biofuel production
An electrifying twist on photosynthesis by Glasgow University scientists promises to lead to a much more productive technique of making biofuel from algae.
Mixed Greens: Clean power cut carbon in 2011
Renewables help cut Aust CO2; Europe’s wind-powered hydrogen fuel station; Hill quits Low Carbon Australia; investors issue warning to heavy-emitters.
Mixed Greens: Solar stocks surge on sunny outlook
Suntech, SunPower shares surge as sales beat expectations; Siemens buys out UK tidal tech company.
The hot news in cleantech this week …
Mining the ocean for renewable terrawatts; has Melbourne developed the world’s most efficient thin-film solar cells?; revolutionising electric motors; and rooftop solar vs solar rooftops?
Mixed Greens: Jinko sees solar parity in Australia
JinkoSolar sets up in Australia, attracted by grid parity and ‘zero carbon’ plan; prices up, production down for Infigen; Canberra launches $1bn cleantech fund.
Germany’s solar schadenfreude
When last week’s freak cold snap left France’s nuclear plants unable to meet demand, guess who came to the rescue?
Mixed Greens: A battery-powered peak solution?
New claims lithium-ion power storage could challenge nat gas in peaking power by 2016; Tesla faces wider losses.
Mixed Greens: Obama’s renewables revival
Obama’s 2013 budget revives clean energy agenda; aviation biofuels cost-competitive by 2018?; and Westpac launches Energy Efficient Lease.