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Solar Energy Conversion Process: Light and Heat

The scientific struggle to increase the efficiency in which renewable energy is used and then reused has proven to be a daunting task. Large wind farms and fields of solar panels are commonly used to generate energy through solar radiation. Congruently, investors are having a troublesome time competing with traditional oil and electric suppliers.

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Supply fears hit UN carbon credits

FT, 6 Sep 2010

Uncertainty about the supply of UN-issued carbon credits has led to their price hitting a four-month high. Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) have surged on international carbon markets in recent weeks after a UN board acted over concerns that chemical plants in China and elsewhere in the developing world were deliberately overproducing HFC 23, a potent greenhouse gas, in order to claim the saleable credits for subsequently destroying it.

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A carbon border tax can curb climate change

FT, 6 Sep 2010

As global growth picks up after the economic crisis, carbon emissions are going back up too. With China and India back on track to double their gross domestic product every decade, and with coal providing nearly 30 per cent of global energy, the chances of stabilising and reducing emissions are low. Indeed, little progress has been made in the last two decades. Only recessions lower emissions – and then only for a short time.
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Low-carbon market to treble by 2020 - HSBC

Reuters, 6 Sep 2010

The world's low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.
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Novacem: Cement That Eats Carbon

Bloomberg, 3 Sep 2010

The construction materials industry emits gobs of carbon dioxide, but a British startup has devised a new cement that absorbs and stores CO2 when it's produced
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Amazon Unveils Latest E-Book Tablet

10/02/2009 by NY1 NEWS



By Adam Balkin

It's fitting that a company with the name Amazon would make trees everywhere rejoice this week by unveiling a new version of its popular eBook reader, the Kindle2.

"It's thin, light, weighs only 10.2 ounces, it's only .36 inches thick. Kindle is 25 percent thinner than the number one best selling 3G phone, has the latest electronic eInk display, 16 shades of gray versus four. Twenty percent faster page turns, 25 percent more battery life, you can read for two weeks on a single charge," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO.

In addition to allowing you to download books wirelessly from virtual anywhere, no subscription fees necessary, the new one will even read books to you.

The Kindle2's other big highlight is a book written exclusively for it, featuring a possessed version of it by Stephen King.

"I thought I had a chance to say something about reading off the computer and the real crisis point at least the press has made between print books and media and things like the Kindle," said King.

eBook readers have been around for years and years so why all of a sudden the boom in popularity? First, it's content. The sheer number of things you can read on this. Second is timing. Everyday consumers may finally be ready to read off of a screen.

Amazon says more than 230,000 books are available on the Kindle, not to mention scores of newspapers, magazines and even blogs.

The other big player in the space is Sony's Reader, which offers at least 50,000 titles from its own bookstore and is now compatible with several others.

On top of those two devices, companies like Apple and Google are pushing to make it easier to read books on many of the devices you already own.

"There's a whole sort of substories to this of libraries for instance that are loaning out books in eReader format for both the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle and there's a lot of free books available so I think the content is what sells this stuff and the devices are now in reach of people, they get it, they get the concept of reading books on a digital device," said Glenn Derene, Popular Mechanics Magazine.

If the digital device of choice happens to be a Kindle2, it goes on sale February 24 for $360.


Copyright 2009 NY1 News

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