Cleantech ticker: 1 April 2009
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates:
- Scientists in Japan say that tapping industrial waste heat could reduce fossil fuel demands in the short term and improve efficiency of countless manufacturing processes;
- The Environmental Defense Fund this week condemned the Texas School Board’s decision to water down a textbook’s reference to global warming;
- EnergyAustralia and IBM have signed an agreement to implement an energy network monitoring and control system for Australia’s smart grid;
- Organisers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are seeking sponsors to help defray the estimated $3.6 million it will cost to offset the Games’ carbon emissions;
- Point Carbon reports that Spain’s solar thermal output declined by 24 percent in the first three months of this year;
- The Ocean Watch vessel launched this week for a first-ever circumnavigation of the Americas, a mission aimed at highlighting dangers to the health of the world’s oceans;
- Scientists in Japan have developed what they say is the blackest material yet known in the universe: a carbon nanotube sheet that absorbs 97 to 99 percent of incoming light;
- Atlantis Resources has raised $14 million and partnered with Statkraft to help it develop tidal current turbines;
- Carbon labels will harm exports while doing little to combat climate change, according to the ITC’s Alexander Kasterine;
- A US task force has determined that GM lags behind competitors in electric car development, and that its Chevy Volt reamins too costly for success in the near term.
