- A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary:
- CleanTech Biofuels to begin producing renewable electricity--press release
Tests show that municipal solid waste has 75 percent of the energy of coal. The company intends to use both coal and garbage to make electricity. - French company to buy Xantrex Technology for about $500 million--The Canadian Press
Xantrex makes inverters for renewable energy systems, like solar panels or wind turbines. The buyer is energy management firm Schneider. - Getting a (firm) grip on renewables--Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI advocates a portfolio approach to renewables where utilities use solar and wind together, combined with storage. - EU eyes 'supergrid' to harness Saharan sun--EurActiv.com
The basic idea: build massive solar power plants in North Africa and construct transmission lines to supply Europe. - Coal juice: High energy prices prompt first U.S. coal-to-liquids plant--WSJ.com
America's first coal-to-liquid plant will use a technology that dates back to the 1920s. Environmentalists, by the way, hate this approach. - Why cleantech investors love and back Obama--Earth2Tech
The numbers don't lie: Barack Obama has much more support in aggregate among clean tech VCs than John McCain. - Postal Service wants to green 90 percent of fleet--Environmental Leader
Fleets are one of the best ways to test out new fuels and car technologies.
