Cleantech ticker: 25 March 2009
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates:
- An experiment to increase the oceans’ carbon uptake through iron seeding has failed as the algae that was supposed to bloom and take in carbon dioxide were instead devoured en masse by tiny crustaceans;
- Cymbet Corporation and Konarka Technologies will demonstrate new solar energy harvesting techniques at the Embedded Systems Conference in California next week;
- Affiliated Computer Services has a new software-as-a-service offering that can reduce PC energy consumption by up to 60 percent;
- Research and Markets today released a new study on “Analysing the Wind Power Industry in Austria”;
- SynGest Inc. plans to build a plant in Iowa that will manufacture anhydrous ammonia fuel and fertilizer from corn biomass;
- Arup today presented its findings regarding the extension of high-speed rail service to Birmingham;
- China Sunergy, a solar cell maker based in China, has entered into a 35-megawatt products framework agreement and a 5-megawatt sales contract with Taiwan’s Global Service LTM.
