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Solar power for toxic waste sites?

Companies seeking to establish solar power farms around protected wildlife areas can face a long, byzantine government permitting process. Why not set up utility-scale, renewable energy in polluted zones instead? That’s what the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing. Its map for Google Earth show the potential for solar, wind, … [...]

Bailout bill loops in green tech, IRS snooping

… Originally posted at News – Politics and Law [...]

Pininfarina designs an electric car

Pininfarina showed off the B0 in its booth at the Paris Motor Show. (Credit: CBS Interactive) If you want to build a new car, even a small, economical car, get Pininfarina to design it. That lesson is made clear with the launch of the B0 at the 2008 Paris Motor … Originally posted at The Car Tech blog [...]

Tracking ‘green’ news as it grows, with Twitter

People use Twitter to warn of natural dangers including earthquakes and hurricanes. Other environmentally related uses for the micro-blogging tool include measuring energy use at home and rigging up plants to “tell” Twitter when they’re thirsty. For a green-news junkie overwhelmed by dozens or even hundreds of RSS feeds, … Originally posted at Webware [...]

Green news harvest: Tapping electricity in trees

A sampling of green-tech news, with a quick commentary: Solar-painted steel could electrify buildings – Renewable Energy WorldA Welsh lab is developing photovoltaic coatings for steel, which could lead to buildings with energy-generating walls. Compact fluorescent bulbs may pollute more than incandescents – Environmental Science & TechnologyCalifornians and others … [...]

Google CEO: How to fix U.S. energy problems

SAN FRANCISCO–The United States government has been unable to fix the country’s energy problems, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said, but the Internet giant on Wednesday proposed its own 22-year solution. “We have seen a total and complete failure of leadership in the political parties of the United States,” … [...]

Ausra rakes in $60.6 million for solar thermal tech

Solar thermal equipment maker Ausra raised .6 million Wednesday from an international group of investors including KERN Partners of Canada, Starfish Ventures of Australia, and Generation Investment Management of London, whose chairman is Al Gore. They are joined by the high-profile Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, … [...]

Did a used EV1 really just sell for $465,000?

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Daily Not quite sure what to make of this, but it appears that someone in Victoria, British Columbia has just sold a 1998 GV1 for 5,000 (about 1,835 U.S.). We got a tip from Patrick J. who said that he spotted the ad but was unable to get a hold [...] [...]