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  • Busting solar myths

    Wind turbine syndrome, vibro-acoustic disorder, and now solar blindness...Fact or fiction? The myth busters may have to work on these ones but for now, other myths in the solar energy area are being dispelled by the company Sunrise Solar . Myth 1: Solar electricity cannot provide a significant part of...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
  • China's green revolution

    Here's a nice interesting insight from my colleague John Richardson about China's fast track towards becoming the world's leader in clean technologies. If you're an ICIS subscriber ( about ICIS ), you can access the whole article in this link . Or you can also read the unedited somewhat...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
  • Is geothermal better than wind and solar?

    Investment news on solar and wind are plentiful but not much on geothermal projects. Still, compared to sporadic energy capacity of wind and solar (estimated around 20-35%), geothermal energy is continuous with more than 70% capacity factor. So what drags the development of this huge sources of energy...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
  • Solar updates

    ICIS Chemical Business , the magazine I work for, recently published two very nice articles about the photovoltaics market. According to Dede Williams , Germany is facing feedstock shortages and competition from cheaper regions, while Ed Zwirn reported a global overview of the industry. And with that...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008
  • Green burnout for the blog

    For those who can't get enough of solar information (I have), here's another solar study from research firm Clean Edge and green-economy organization Co-op America. The study finds, among others, that solar photovoltaic prices are projected to decline from an average 15-32 cents kWh today to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008
  • The Future of Energy from The Economist

    On my way back to New York from Paris, I was able to grab a free copy of The Economist's June 21st issue from an American Airlines stewardess as their copies of Vanity Fair magazine (featuring Angelina Jolie) were already gone. I guess I am unable to escape my green blogging job as the issue's...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008
  • Wind racing the sun

    Wind energy investments seem to be neck and neck with the solar market. This week alone I came across three wind energy investment announcements: Fluor building the world's largest offshore wind farm in the UK; GreenHunter Wind Energy planning to develop China's first wind energy project; and...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008
  • Solar meltdown predicted

    Just as I was recently thinking of letting some solar stocks shine on my meager technology portfolio, a doom-and-gloom scenario was recently predicted by the research firm, Lux Research . Lux said the superheated global solar industry will soon experience some cooling down as supply for solar modules...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-25-2008
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