By The Beam Have you ever dreamt of “driving” a flying car just like in Back to the Future? Well, this might happen in real life sooner than you ever expected. But, rather than flying cars, the technology that is being developed today looks more like human-sized drones 9 Personal Flying Vehicles — CleanTechnica’s New…
By Roy L Hales In Arizona, the Ecosa institute offers a tuition-free ecological design certificate program. Ecosa Institute Offers A Tuition-Free Ecological Design Certificate Program was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 50,000 other subscribers: Google+ | Email | Facebook | RSS | Twitter. Read Full Article Here For more…
By Roy L Hales Alberta’s oil industry won a symbolic victory. President Trump calls his approval of the Keystone XL pipeline “a great day for jobs and energy independence” in the United States. Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) admits the industry is not using its current pipeline capacity and adding more pipelines is “not consistent…
By James Ayre Accompanying the tweet of the video of a Model 3 release candidate going down a street, Tesla CEO Elon Musk also revealed that early deliveries of the Model 3 will be of the rear-wheel-drive (RWD) variant — as was the case with the launch of the Model S a few years back…
By James Ayre Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a short video of what may well be the production version of the Model 3 … in action. The video is only of a quick run down a street, and doesn’t show the front of the car much, so it doesn’t give us much to go…
By Michelle Froese Renewable energy company Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGP-NA) inaugurated its new North American headquarters in Andover, Massachusetts this week, with Governor Charlie Baker and other federal, state, and local authorities. EGP-NA’s new office design includes several unique features including carpet made from recycled materials, EV charging stations, local reclaimed wood…
By Kelly Pickerel EcoFasten Solar announced that the District Court of Colorado granted EcoFasten’s motion for summary judgement invalidating all patent claims asserted against EcoFasten by D Three Enterprises. The Court’s order brings the dispute initiated by D Three Enterprises to a close, giving EcoFasten a long-deserved victory. “This finding by the Colorado Court confirms…
By Jon LeSage Tesla has broken the “granola image” of electric cars and its limited audience, opening doors for competitors like the EQ subbrand, Daimler’s chief said. During an interview last week at the South by Southwest (SXSW 2017) conference in Austin with German magazine T3N, CEO Dieter Zetsche reflected on the German automaker’s 2009…
By Michelle Froese Dogger Bank development will consist of four offshore wind farms, each with a capacity of up to 1.2 GW, creating a combined capacity of 4.8 GW. (Photo: Statoil: Sheringham Shoal off the coast of Norfolk) Statoil and Statkraft has completed their previously announced transaction, whereby Statoil increases its share in the Dogger…
By Paul Dvorak High quality and economy of time are paramount in the engineering of automation systems in plant and machinery system construction. To meet these requirements, Bachmann provides its electronic and mechanical product data in complete online catalogs ready for download. Customers can now access the updated EPLAN macro and 3D CAD libraries. The…
By Jon LeSage The controversial Keystone XL pipeline transporting Canadian tar sands oil from Alberta through the U.S. has been approved by the State Department. Canadian oil company TransCanada can now construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the border in Montana for importing the crude oil. Previous Secretary of State John Kerry rejected…
By Kelsey Misbrener The Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association and The Green Energy Institute released The Oregon Solar Plan, which outlines strategies to increase solar power in Oregon to enable the state to generate 10% of its electricity from solar energy in ten years. The report says solar currently generates less than 1% of the…
By Rogier van Rooij The small Dutch energy company Vandebron, which allows consumers to buy their renewable energy directly from local producers on an online marketplace, has offered utility Nuon €1 million for its coal-fired power plant in Amsterdam. After the purchase, the energy startup wants to shut the plant down and turn it into…
By James Ayre In an interesting move, a court in the state of Uttarakhand in India has ordered that the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers be granted the same legal rights as humans. That is to say, the rivers must be granted status as living human entities Indian State Uttarakhand Orders The Ganges & The…
By James Ayre As part of the ongoing effort to deal with the region’s extensive air pollution problems, the Chinese capital of Beijing and the surrounding province of Hebei as a whole will be planting trees and creating new greenbelts, according to recent reports Beijing (& Hebei Province As A Whole) To Create “Green Necklace”…