The Daily Sprout
UN Wants Green New Deal to Save Economy: Ahead of the meeting of the world’s finance leaders at the Financing for Development – Doha Review Conference, the UN’s Environment Program says the solution to the global financial, fuel and food crises is in a clean energy economy – Guardian.
Segway Maker Wants to Provide Power and Water to Poor: Segway inventor Dean Kamen has designed two “black boxes” to help the world’s poor. One converts cow dung into electricity and the other can turn “anything that looks like fluid” into clean water using one kilowatt of electricity – CNet.
GridPoint Adds Second Ex-CIA Director as Adviser: Smart grid startup GridPoint has brought on former Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet as an adviser. Tenet joins another former CIA Director, James Woolsey, on the board, making us wonder how many ex-spooks it takes to take over our electrical grid – Press Release.
The End of the Gusty Good Times?: The American Wind Energy Association released big third quarter numbers on wind energy installations, and while this year is still on track to set a new record, the AWEA warns that with the credit crisis, next year won’t be so windy – WSJ’s Environmental Capital.
How Do You Make Offshore Wind Cheaper?: The Carbon Trust has teamed up with five European energy companies to form the Offshore Wind Accelerator which, with £30 million, intends to research how to cut the cost of offshore wind by 10 percent – Cleantech Group.
