Green Education: Clean Technology

More than 50 US mayors and county elected officials have launched the Resilient Communities for America campaign by committing to build stronger communities that can meet their own energy needs and withstand the relentless onslaught of heat waves, floods, droughts, severe storms, and wildfires. 50 Top US Mayors Launch Fight For Climate Change Resiliency was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

Tesla just about 14 hours ago announced via email to reporters that it would be performing a live battery pack swap demo tomorrow (Thursday, June 20) at 8:00pm (doors opening at 7:30pm) at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. Actually, as with many things Tesla, Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk broke the news on Twitter a bit early: Live pack swap demo on Thurs night at 8pm California time at our design studio in Hawthorne. … Read More Tesla To Demo Battery Swapping On Thursday Night was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

New York is one of the leading states in the country for solar power. But some New Yorkers are now looking to up NYC’s solar credentials a bit more. In partnership with AT&T, Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based design studio PENSA are installing 25 public solar-powered cell phone and tablet chargers to make charging easier and cleaner. The initiative is called Street Charge. On the Goal Zero blog, the company writes, “We’ve come to terms with the phone booth extinction … Read More Public Solar-Powered Cell Phone & Tablet Chargers In NYC — Street Change was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

Things can’t go right for anyone all the time. Tesla’s had a streak of good news lately, but it just ran into one problem — Model S vehicles manufactured between May 10 and June 8 of this year “may contain a defect.” There haven’t actually been any customer complaints, but being extra cautious, Tesla is ordering a partial recall. Here’s the full article published today from Tesla CEO & Chairman Elon Musk: After a careful examination, … Read More Tesla Issues Partial Recall Of Model S was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

This beautiful blue matte Tesla Model S is the most attractive Model S I’ve seen to date (of course, imho). Interestingly, it was used to advertise wheels. Read the Gas2 repost for details: The automotive aftermarket offers pretty much any and everything you could want for your ride. While electric cars are the new kids on the block, many aftermarket features translate easily onto rides like the Tesla Model S. A new coat of matte … Read More Blue Matte Tesla Model S Used To Advertise Wheels (VIDEO) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

All-electric motorcycles have been around for awhile now. But Mission Motorcycles is taking the fun, eco-friendly concept to the next level. The new Mission RS (“Race Special”) is being dubbed as the fastest all-electric production motorcycle ever made. This is not your normal all-electric motorcycle. In fact, it’s a “superbike” that boasts a 160-horsepower electric engine that generates 133.4 ft-lbs of torque. The powerhouse bike can do zero to 60 in a mere 3 seconds and has a … Read More Mission RS All-Electric Street Legal Superbike was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

This article first appeared on RenewEconomy This article follows on from our story yesterday on Alinta, and the complaint by CEO Jeff Dimery that wind energy is “undermining the running regime of exiting thermal generation assets”. There is no doubt that it is. But while some could argue whether this is a good thing (early retirement of ageing polluting assets in a clean energy transition) or a bad thing (stranded assets, loss of value), it seems that … Read More Fossil Fuel Really Beginning To Hate Renewable Energy: Graphs was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

This article first appeared on RenewEconomy. These are strange times in the renewables industry. There is no doubt there is an enormous push back against renewables by the fossil fuel industries and pro-nuclear lobbies who fear an opportunity lost and a decades-old business model eroded. What is truly stunning, however, is the traction that some of the most idiotic nonsense about wind energy is gaining at the political level. Finally, the wind industry is declaring that it has … Read More Wind Industry Declares It’s Had Enough Of Anti-Wind Nonsense was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

The cost of photovoltaic solar panels is expected to drop to 36 cents per watt by 2017, according to new research by cleantech market research firm GTM Research. While this drop in solar panel prices will help to make solar affordable to more people, which will increase the size of the solar market, this ongoing cost reduction means much more than that. Currently, solar panels are backed up by natural gas and various other types of … Read More Forecast: Cost Of PV Panels To Drop To $0.36/Watt By 2017 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

This article first appeared on the Lenz Blog From this tweet by the always excellent Energiewende Germany I learned about an article titled “Hydrogen plant starts storing wind energy in Germany“. As is clear from the title, this is another project to use wind energy in times where demand can’t keep up with supply to make some hydrogen from water. That is the future for storage of surplus renewable energy, since the existing infrastructure can store massive … Read More Germany Opens Another Hybrid Wind Power Plant was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

The Department of Defense has been aggressively pursuing alternative energy both as the key to future national security and as a means of reducing troop casualties in the field, and a new Army solar project provides a perfect illustration of the two entwined goals. The project involves integrating solar power with the Army’s new “Firefly” sniper detection system, which somewhat ironically has been exposing Soldiers to enemy fire when they have to install fresh batteries … Read More Lifesaving Solar Power For Army’s “Firefly” Sniper Detection System was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013. She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition, and has joined by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led by Professor Martin Beniston, climatologist and director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva (UNIGE). Even though the crew and scientists aboard had to adjust their schedule … Read More PlanetSolar, World’s Largest Solar Boat Arrives in New York was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

The global smart grid market will nearly double by 2020, reaching $73 billion in annual revenue and $461 billion in cumulative profit, predicts Navigant Research. Smart Grid Market Revenue Will Hit $73 Billion Annually By 2020 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

The top electric car city in the US… San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think? Indianapolis, the capital city of the US state Indiana and home to approximately 800,000 people, is interested in having all of the city’s fleet of cars replaced with electric and plugin hybrid (PHEV) ones. This could soon make it the #1 electric car city in the US. After hearing about the announcement, this gave the CEO of … Read More Top US Electric Car City Could Soon Be… (You’re Never Gonna Guess It) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).

This post first appeared on San Diego Loves Green by Roy Hales A week ago, Maxwell Technologies announced they had been “been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on the campus of University of California, San Diego—one of the nation’s greenest universities— and a second commercial scale system at Soitec’s solar power plant in … Read More Interview With Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitor-based Energy Storage System was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free).