News you might have missed: 9 March 2009
So what else is happening in the cleantech sector this week? Here are some recent headlines you might have missed:
- More US residents used public transportation last year than at any other time for the past 52 years, according to news from the American Public Transportation Association;
- Quanta Services today named Peter Lorenz as president of Quanta Renewable Energy Services;
- A draft horse named “King” will this week hoist Southern Maryland’s first residential wind turbine into place;
- Tampa Electric has signed a contract to purchase energy from a proposed 25-megawatt photovoltaic plant starting in 2011;
- The ethanol trade group Growth Energy says boosting the amount of ethanol in petrol from 10 to 15 percent could generate $24 billion and help create 136,000 jobs, Reuters reports;
- Researchers at the University of Milano are testing an ethanol-powered fuel-cell system to evaluate its investment potential;
- Lower supplies and growing demand are likely to lead to higher ethanol prices this year, according to a Merrill Lynch estimate published in Reuters;
- US scientists say they’ve successfully created an artificial ribosome, the protein-making factory at the heart of a living cell;
- Researchers in China have discovered that soil containing chicken manure can break down crude oil contamination 50 percent more quickly than “regular” soil.
