The Green Technocrat

In his Op-Ed this weekend in The New York Times Thomas Friedman gave a quick account of one country that has recognized the need to develop its environmental policy and energy policy hand in hand.  That country is Costa Rica, and for the last 20 years they have been doing just about everything right in [...]

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Earlier this month Google released their Clean Energy 2030 proposal to help the U.S. reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.  The plan lays out a possible path that could eliminate using coal and oil to produce electricity (cutting total fossil fuel-based electricity generation by 88%), would also cut oil use in cars by 38%, and would [...]

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Moncada Energy Group, an Italian producer of wind farm technology plans to add solar technology to it’s renewable energy repertoire in 2009 by placing solar panels in the same fields as it’s wind turbines.  The panels will be placed under the turbine towers and will use the existing infastructure to feed electricity into the grid.
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