Earth2Tech Week in Review

It felt like an old episode of Dallas this week at the Earth2Tech offices with Texas oil baron T. Boone Pickens stealing all the headlines with the launch of his “Pickens Plan.” In case Mr. Pickens and his media blitz made you miss some of the other clean tech news this week we’ve gathered it all here for you.

T. Boone Launches “Pickens Plan” to Save U.S.: Pickens says his plan is “simple:” take all the natural gas we use to generate some 22 percent of our electricity, use it to power cars instead of foreign oil and then use wind power to fill the gap in our electricity generation. Oh, and he thinks Bush was “too focused on ethanol.“

10 Things You Should Know About Natural Gas Vehicles: Before you get too excited and the Pickens Plan, what does a fleet of cars running on natural gas even mean? Here’s what you need to do.

Innovalight Nabs $5M for Thin-Film Solar: Thin-film solar got one step closer to production this week when thin film startup Innovalight got $5 million in equipment lease financing.

Intel Antes Up On Solar with German Thin-Film Solar Sulfurcell: Intel already spun out it’s own solar startup, SpectraWatt, and now they’ve put $37.5 million into a separate thin-film startup, SulfurCell, upping Intel’s bet on solar technology.

Next-Gen Prius to Get Solar Panels: While the panels won’t really be able to fully charge the car, it will make smug Prius drivers even more smug. Kyocera will provide the panels that will be able to power the 5-kilowatt AC system.