Archive for October 7th, 2008

Geothermal energy backers expect rebirth

Economic and environmental forces have created a “perfect storm” that could help geothermal shed its back-seat renewable status, proponents said at an international conference.

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N.J. to ‘race to the sea’ for wind power

Garden State Offshore Energy won a license to build a wind farm off New Jersey and says this illustration is indicative of what turbines would look like off the coast at various distances. The GSOE plan is to build turbines 16-20 miles offshore.New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy.

Tags: Wind power

eCycle, Incorporated, a manufacturer of advanced brushless motor/generators and controls, announced today that is has been named as one of the top 50 emerging companies by Funding Post's 5th annual Pitching Across America Competition. (PRWeb Oct 7, 2008)


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Tags: Green manufacturing

Grassroots organization links public's voice to Congress using Facebook. (PRWeb Oct 6, 2008)


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Tags: Facebook

A new level of precision for manufacturing heavy rolls of thin-film materials for the solar industry will be showcased by Northfield Automation at the Solar Power 2008 show. The first thin-film, heavy roll machine has been delivered to a major producer of solar cells in the United States. (PRWeb Oct 6, 2008)


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Tags: Solar

HBH Gas Systems has partnered with the developer of The Canyons at Lake Travis to bring underground-piped, individually metered gas to the homes in this new community just outside of Austin, Texas. The Canyons at Lake Travis is located in an area that does not have access to the natural gas infrastructure. Faced with the high costs and difficult logistics of extending the natural gas mains, as well as the undesirable prospect of an all-electric community, many developers rely on HBH Gas Systems to implement central community propane gas systems. (PRWeb Oct 6, 2008)


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Tags: Community

Despatch Industries, the leading process technology provider for the solar industry, has achieved another sales milestone in 2008. By the beginning of the third quarter of 2008, Despatch has received more than fifty percent more orders for their flagship firing furnace than they received in all of 2007. (PRWeb Oct 6, 2008)


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Tags: Photovoltaic