A sampling of the latest green-tech news.
- Blow Hard: Wind to Supply 20% of U.S. Power? - Environmental Capital - WSJ.com
- The Department of Energy says wind can supply 20 percent of U.S. power, the same target as Europe. Sounds awfully ambitious, unless NIMBY sentiment dies down significantly.
- John McCain fleshes out his climate policy, draws contrast with Obama - VentureBeat
- A carbon cap-and-trade system is in our future. Now it's just the dirty details and the role of government and industry. The story includes a link to text of McCain's climate change policy speech.
- Biofuel Comparison Chart: The "Good," the Bad and the (Really) Ugly - TreeHugger
- Not all biofuels are created equally. Take a look see.
- NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather - Newswise Science News
- IBM supercomputer to crunch numbers of climate change models.
- Duke Energy plans $100 million investment in solar - Charlotte Business Journal
- Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers is definitely a man to watch in the energy business. This announcement helps explain why he recently joined the board of solar-equipment maker Applied Materials. Found via Earth2Tech.
- Replacing Gasoline with Solar Power - R-Squared Energy Blog
- Robert Rapier runs the numbers on how much solar energy is required to replace gasoline and finds that it's not all that big. Found via The Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog.
- It's The Meat Not The Miles - Science News
- The carbon footprint of food is complicated. A study confirms that meat produces more greenhouse gases than other foods. It also finds that transportation is a small portion of meat's overall impact.
- Algae start-up Bionavitas says "4 years to reach commercial stage" as "shade wall" perplexes engineers - Biofuels Digest
- This is a quick roundup of commercial and research efforts around algae, teeing off with Bionavitas, a start-up whose CEO says toxic cleanup through algae is a more realistic near-term market.
- Newest GREET Model Updates Environmental Impacts Of Specific Fuels And Automobiles - ScienceDaily
- This may sound wonky, but getting accurate measures for alternative fuels is very important, as policymakers consider "low carbon fuel standards" that take into account the entire life cycle of fuels.