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As far as China’s BYD Co. is concerned, Los Angeles has at least five markings of a prime launchpad for electric vehicles: high population density, air pollution problems, a large car market, affluent consumers, and a yen for new technologies. That’s why the battery giant and automaker has named the L.A. area as the region [...]

What’s not to like about Trony Solar? The Shenzhen, China-based solar startup brought in $79 million in revenue last year and a net profit of $24 million. In the three months through Sept. 30, Trony’s revenue was $37 million – or 47 percent of its entire 2008 revenue – and net profit was $11 million. [...]

.. smoke cannabis at least once a year...Czech is the real, best beer in the world :] ... do not overdo, though ... sports, nature hiking, traveling, mushroom picking is also very popular in Czech rep, and better than to consume beer or marijuana ! ... Czechs, however, are behind the curve in understanding that 9/11 is a controlled demolition - Petr Buben from Bookmarklet

[1] [2] Links: 1. http://www.ekoventure.com/photo_o... 2. http://www.ekoventure.com/photo_o... Photo of the Day - December 9th, 2009 A Moving Mystery in Death Valley A long-standing mystery in California’s Death Valley can be seen in the dirt trail left by the travels of a large rock. For over a century, scientists have worked to discover how rocks and boulders in this area, some weighing up to 700 lbs, continue to creep along the parched surface, leaving behind an earthly wake miles long as evidence of their travels. There has yet to be a human witness to their movements...[3]Read on Links: 3. http://www.ekoventure.com/photo_o...

The U.S. Official COP15 Site: The U.S. might have just changed its mind to have President Obama arrive during the crucial negotiating hour, but they’ve still got a nicely laid out official COP15 web site complete with live videos, transcriptions of press events and daily schedules. Draft Swap: The New York Times reports that delegates on [...]

“The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse,” reads an op-ed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in today’s Washington Post. Highlighting the “Climategate” scandal, she argues that science is being politicized at the expense of average Americans, and that president Barack Obama should boycott the summit altogether. Palin’s own limited grasp of the science behind global warming notwithstanding, there are a lot of ridiculous golden nuggets in the article. Chief among them, she says she “took a stand against politicized science” by suing the federal government for adding polar bears to the endangered species list. Not exactly the best example to give the Post’s readership the warm fuzzies. Her comments are almost exclusively based on the emails that were leaked last weak revealing that some climate data had been manipulated to trump up global warming claims. “This scandal obviously calls into question...

The wind power industry is more developed than most types of renewable energy, but one segment — small wind power systems with turbines of 100 kilowatts or less — is just beginning to pick up steam. These systems, buoyed by government incentives and increased interest in clean sources of electricity, are gaining traction in a [...]

Solar panels may have just become more low maintenance. While conducting research on a cure forl Alzheimer's, scientists at Tel Aviv University ended up with a nanotech breakthrough that could mean no more worrying about keeping solar panels clean - they can clean themselves! The researchers were conducting experiments on ways to control peptide atoms and molecules (Alzheimer's sufferers have a particular peptide found in the plaques that form in their brains) and they found a way to get peptides to self-assemble in a vacuum. The resulting arrangement of peptides acts as a dust- and water-repelling coating. Not only can the coating keep solar panels clear from debris, but it also could be used as a supercapacitor, meaning better lithium batteries. Two boosts to clean tech with one discovery! If that's not enough, drug company Merck is funding continued Alzheimer's research at Tel Aviv University. You can check out the abstract of the groups findings in Nature Nanotechnology. via...

To encourage Christmas shoppers, many stores in Copenhagen leave their doors open - despite temperatures that hover near the freezing point.

Despite a business climate that resulted in a net profit drop of 41 percent, the Austrian industrial-lighting company experienced a 58 percent rise in LED sales.

An abandoned mine may not be as photogenic as a gleaming, LEED-certified structure, but to certain companies like Iron Mountain, it’s a thing of beauty. Deep within the company’s complex in western Pennsylvania, Iron Mountain is using the geothermal conditions to save big on HVAC equipment and power costs for its data center. Besides the [...]

A lot of people are up in arms that the Obama administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sprung its greenhouse gas endangerment ruling on opening day of the United Nations’ Climate Conference in Copenhagen. Critics around the world are calling the move contrived, rushed, and a rare strategic misstep for the president. Responding to these claims, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson took the stage at the summit today. The ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health — giving the executive branch full power to regulate them independent from Congress — was not timed or expedited to coincide with the Copenhagen talks, Jackson fired back. The data leading to the endangerment finding has been making the rounds for years, she said. President George W. Bush had rejected a similar ruling on carbon dioxide, but this didn’t make it disappear. Finally, this year, the team at the EPA was able to gather enough new studies and gauge public sentiment to support an announcement....

Electric car maker Tesla Motors is still deciding where to locate its more than $300 million assembly plant for its Model S sedan. Given that the site selected will get about $20 million in extra tax and utility revenue, in addition to as many as 1,500 jobs, the competition is getting pretty fierce. Two weeks ago, the city council in Downey, Calif. approved a deal with the Industrial Realty Group to make it easier for Tesla to move onto an 80-acre tract of land in town. As part of the agreement, Downey said it would pay IRG $8.7 million to solidify the choice. But now the city of Long Beach, Calif. has just one-upped that offer. The Long Beach city council has just approved a proposal to give Tesla $28.6 million in financial incentives if it decides to locate the Model S factory there. The city has long been on the car maker’s short list of potential sites, particularly because it is home to an old Boeing factory that could be converted. The Downey property also has its advantages in...

Every smart grid company, IT firm and software startup seems to have the desire to build a home energy management tool these days. But one we’ve been waiting to see for awhile has just launched: Smart grid player GridPoint says that its home energy management tool, which partly uses software from the company Lixar it [...]

Automakers, longtime bitter opponents of climate regulation, now accept the need to reduce emissions.

Deep underground, Iron Mountain is exploiting the geothermal conditions in an abandoned limestone mine for a super-energy efficient, low-cost data center.

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering has found that energy efficiency measures in the United States could cut energy use by 30 percent below 2030 projections.

IBM is offering Tivoli Live Monitoring Services as a monthly subscription.

Despite anger from developing countries over the leaked document, the negotiations are still on track for success Rob Bradley, director of international climate policy, World Resources Institute Behind the raw passions that only a sketchy leaked document can unleash, what impact does this have on the negotiations, and the prospects for a deal? The chair of a conference is supposed to help countries explore areas of compromise, to help them strike a deal. Indications are that the Danish government has taken several shots at this – that the leaked document is one of several Danish proposals, albeit from the prime minister's office. That said, some aspects of the situation are certainly novel. The president of the COP is actually the outgoing Danish climate and energy minister Connie Hedegaard, not the PM's office. Given the round-the-clock globe-trotting diplomacy that Hedegaard has pursued all year, the fact that texts are emerging from other parts of the host country government has...

Boston-based demand response firm EnerNOC wants to expand its energy efficiency business — and it has just acquired a 30-person company called Cogent Energy, based in Concord, Calif., to accelerate the effort. In particular, EnerNOC says in a release this morning that Cogent’s tech and experience in monitoring-based commissioning services, or MBCx — essentially analyzing [...]

City parking lots can be eyesores, and a lot of people look at them as wasted urban space. But what if they did more than just provide a place to put your car temporarily? Designboom and Nissan paired up for a design contest that asked entrants to re-think the parking lot – could it become [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s largest contract chip maker, expands into cleantech by grabbing a nice chunk of Taiwan’s leading solar cell manufacturer.