If you believe Shai Agassi, we’ve been looking at the concept of the electric car all wrong; it isn’t just a product-it’s a service. That’s the thinking underpinning the young IsraeliAmerican entrepreneur’s fledgling company, Project Better Place, and it’s catching on. Last month the California-based start-up announced a US$42.3-million project with Danish energy firm DONG [...]

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Gene Cattaneo, a Las Vegas renewable-energy entrepreneur, believed solar power’s day was coming as surely as the sun would rise the next day.
Cattaneo called himself Mr. Solar, but he didn’t see his dream come true. A neighbor shot and killed Cattaneo in 2001 during an argument over the neighbor’s yard sales.
Had Mr. Solar only lived [...]

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HAVING forked out a ridiculous EUR680 on a fill of home-heating oil recently I spent a whole day last week at an alternative energy exhibition.
I could have been at home with a roaring fire, a DVD and a tub of Ben and Jerry’s but the cost of the oil was killing me.
Like most I’m a [...]

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It’s time to harness the world’s virtually inexhaustible supply of solar energy and start building a brighter future
We know that relying on coal, oil and natural gas threatens our future with toxic pollution, global climate change and social unrest caused by diminishing fuel supplies. Instead of relying on unsustainable fossil fuels, we must transform our [...]

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Solar power produces, per unit of energy, only about one-tenth as much carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions as does conventional power generation, a new study shows.
Solar panels don’t release harmful gases during use, but making the solar cells does consume materials and energy-mainly from conventional power sources such as coal-fired power plants, which in [...]

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