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Solar Prospectors Chase Italian, Israeli 'Gold Mines'
Bloomberg
The chief executive officer of two-year-old Prime Sun Power Inc. is hiring hundreds of workers to build solar plants in Italy, where he can sell electricity ...
US solar firm buys Italian solar facilityRenewable Energy Focus

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National Post
Canadian feed-in tariff approves solar projects
Renewable Energy Focus
The feed-in tariff in the province of Ontario has approved the first trache of larger solar energy projects. Of the 510 projects approved by the Ontario ...
Solar power company features projects across provinceEMC Kemptville
Giant aims to be green grocerToronto Star
Green energy bubblesNational Post
Globe and Mail -IGD Retail Analysis -Treehugger
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After a week of Paypal faffing

Just occasionally the blogosphere can be about more than just hot air – as it proved today by raising over £10,000 to pay off the fine of pub landlord Nick Hogan and to bring about his release from prison.…

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An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee chairman and other veteran members, and reveals some of the inside situation. It also looks at some of the upcoming 802.x standards including one that sends data by modulating visible light."

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UK div sees 'encouraging signs'

Mega reseller Computacenter delivered on its forecast of better-than-expected profits for 2009, though revenues actually declined at the firm.…

Los Angeles Times
Green Path North plans withdrawn
The Desert Sun
“There is a need to bring geothermal power from Imperial County to Los Angeles County, but there are existing corridors, and that's what they should be ...
LA DWP pulls plug on 'green' power lineSan Jose Mercury News
DWP drops plan to build 85-mile power transmission line across the desertLos Angeles Times
Green Path North project redirectedSan Bernardino Sun
Press-Enterprise
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How's the recession been treating you?

Mexican telecoms bazillionaire Carlos Slim is the world's richest man, pushing Bill Gates into second place.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Eureka
Wind energy embraces marine power
Eureka
... has just reinvented itself as renewable UK, saying that together, wind, wave and tidal power can supply over 30% of our electricity by 2020, ...

Incentives to encourage take-up of new tech, recycling

Exclusive Sony is planning to offer a trade-in scheme targeting Blu-ray Disc player owners later this year.…

Casino in hot water
Reno News & Review
The Peppermill's geothermal power works like this: A well was drilled into the hot rocks deep beneath the casino's parking lots. No. 8, the deepest well, ...

suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has shown off XNA games running on Windows Phone; full 3D is a go. From Engadget: 'Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 9. The two titles are The Harvest, a good looking touch-controlled dungeon crawler with destructible environments, being developed by Luma Arcade; and Battle Punks. Microsoft spoke to the ease of its Direct3D development platform, which was built by the same folks responsible for the first-gen Xbox. What we saw of The Harvest was built in "two or three weeks," mostly from scratch, and folks who've already built games for XNA in VisualStudio shouldn't have much trouble with a port from the sound of things: "very, very easy," said Microsoft. Right now developers can do their testing in Windows, but there should be a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator out for devs eventually."

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Scotland's Offshore Wind “Boom” Gets Bigger!
Intelligent Energy Portal (blog)
Now the oil supporting infrastructure may be “repurposed” to support Scotland's new energy boom - offshore wind and tidal power. ...

China Idles 40% of Windpower Turbine Output Capacity
BusinessWeek
By Bloomberg news March 11 (Bloomberg) -- China is idling as much as 40 percent of its wind-turbine factories following a surge in investment driven by the ...

'No decision' on Opera Mobile

Opera has released an Opera Mini 5 beta for Google's Android platform.…

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Blimp wristed?

Review Bowers & Wilkins' Zeppelin is undoubtedly the world's most iconic iPod speaker. Every one of its rivals, from the high end of the market downward, looks pretty much how you'd expect an iPod speaker to look. Not so the elongated ovoid that is the Zeppelin.…

Hugh Pickens writes "When the wind is blowing, it is usually the cheapest peaking power available. However utilities need consistent always-on power from large, cheap coal and nuclear power plants that are the backbone of the electric grid. Wired reports that operators are looking at Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) using abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest to store compressed-air. This converts the intermittent motions of the air into a steady power source by using it to run air compressors to pump air into an underground cave where it's stored under pressure. The first CAES plant in the United States actually went online in McIntosh, Alabama in 1991 where engineers created a geological pocket 900 feet long and up to 238 feet wide in a dome by pumping water into it to dissolve the rock salt. When the (briny) water was pumped back out, the salt resealed itself and they had an air-tight container."

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Digitimes
Applied Materials Expands Display, Solar Equipment Manufacturing Capability in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The nearly 15000 square meter facility will enhance Applied's capability to serve its FPD and thin film solar PV customers in Asia while capitalizing on ...
Applied to beef up display, solar equipment production in TaiwanDigitimes

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National Post
Green energy bubbles
National Post
Jurisdictions with wind power regimes face continuing issues related to the fact that the wind often doesn't blow much, turning investments in wind farms ...
Renewable Energy Companies Flocking to OntarioEnergyBoom
Ontario bolsters green support as Europe backs offReuters
Giant aims to be green grocerToronto Star

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National Post
Green energy bubbles
National Post
While investment analysts are telling their clients to get out of solar power firms and warning about the continuing risks in wind and bioenergy schemes, ...
Loblaw to install solar panels on store rooftopsToronto Star
Loblaw to tap Ontario program with solar panelsGlobe and Mail
Loblaw pilots solar energy projectsIGD Retail Analysis
Treehugger -EnergyBoom -PR-USA.net (press release)
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Texas troll two-step

Apple, Research in Motion, and a gaggle of other deep-pocket firms have been slapped with a wide-ranging patent infringment suit by an obscure Texas firm.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work