The Daily Sprout
DOE Scraps FutureGen: Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman announced that the DOE will be spreading its eggs across several baskets, investing in carbon capture and sequestration at multiple integrated gasification combined cycle power plants – Department of Energy.
Who Will Profit at the Hawaii Climate Talks?: Diplomats from all over the world are meeting in Hawaii to discuss a plan beyond the Kyoto Protocol. Which countries will reap the cleantech benefits of saving the world? – Wall Street Journal.
Clean Car Startups Moving into Automotive Heartland?: Tesla Motors has setup offices in Rochester Hills, Mich. while Fisker Karma eyes a manufacturing plant in southeast Michigan – Autoblog Green.
It’s Not Easy Keeping Cleantech Employees: It seems the demand for cleantech employees is growing faster than personnel can be trained with cleantech-specific skills which requires a mix of startup understanding and environmental evangelical nature – Cleantech Media.
Giant Wind Turbine Could Float Offshore Wind: The 144 meter high turbine could generate nine megawatts of power, or about three times the amount of traditionally turbines – Guardian Unlimited.
Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.