Green news harvest: Obama touts solar, geothermal
A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.
- Obama: Energy technology path to recovery - UPI.com
Obama visits Nellis Air Force base's huge solar array and stumps for an export-driven clean energy economy over rising oil imports. In the same trip, he announced $467 million from stimulus act to speed development of geothermal and solar projects. - GE eyes $1.5 billion in cleantech research by 2010 - Reuters
GE is looking at green technologies to drive revenue growth and is hitting its own emissions reduction targets. - For MTI, a dose of much-needed relief -- Times Union
MTI, which had planned to have methanol fuel cell charger for gadgets, gets a lifeline from a federal research grant. - OutSmart Power pulls in $2M in startup funding - Mass High Tech Business News
One of many companies focusing on getting better building energy data, OutSmart uses sensors to track and manage energy use. - How GM is Making Electric Vehicles Relevant - Gas 2.0
One of the key engineers behind the Chevy Volt says that GM, not auto start-ups, has the resources--distribution, etc.--to make electric vehicles the path to a cleaner car economy. - Duke Energy: We Can 'Decarbonize' Without Painful Electricity Price Hikes - Climate Progress
Column by Duke Energy's COO argues that carbon regulations, if done right, can move utilities to low-carbon energy sources. What he opposes is using regulations for other purposes, presumably something like health care reform. - Solazyme Testing BlueFire Ethanol Cellulosic Sugars in Its Microalgae Renewable Oil Production Process
Potentially interesting partnership where BlueFire makes sugars from municipal waste and Solazyme grows algae for fuel. - Looking at Europe's Green Ways - NYTimes.com
Good column examining how ideas and technologies on green tech are starting to flow across the Atlantic and, increasingly, to Asia.
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Nellis Air Force Base)
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin. 





I just don't get people who will say no to things that are good for them and their own children's future. Is this the fate of America? To be poisoned by short term folks who just look at quantity, speed and horsepower rather than what is sensible for the Earth? This kind of outlook of bigger faster and better just isn't sustainable and it is showing its ugly effects here and now in the form of pollution and high fuel prices.
Get a grip people. You can hate a man for any reason, but please get your heads out of the sand if what he says is for your own good and they good of future generations. It's common sense. Clean air = Good. Profits at the expense of ecosystem = BAD. No ecosystem = no chance to make ANY KIND OF PROFIT.
- by JimPratt3 October 30, 2009 12:14 PM PDT
- Is that all you can come up with?
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