Taking the Wind Out of Energy: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Taking the Wind Out of Energy: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

A word of caution and something to consider -Energy strategy in Spain

Sky's the limit for Green Energy Hub - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Sky's the limit for Green Energy Hub - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

It is the kind of project that could leave other municipalities green with envy

Spray-on transistors may become possible

Spray-on transistors may become possible
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists have discovered an organic semiconductor that might be a good vehicle for creating spray-on electronics.

National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers said the organic semiconductor might be used to create large-area electronics, such as solar cells and displays, which can be sprayed onto a surface as easily as paint.

While such electronics are not ready for marketing, the research team says the material could overcome one of the main cost hurdles blocking large-scale manufacture of organic thin-film transistors.

"At this stage, there is no established best material or manufacturing process for creating low-cost, large-area electronics," Calvin Chan, a NIST electrical engineer, said. "What our team has done is to translate a classic material deposition method, spray painting, to a way of manufacturing cheap electronic devices."

Chan says the simplicity of spray-on electronics gives it a potential cost advantage over other manufacturing processes for organic electronics. Other candidate processes, he said, require costly equipment to function or are simply not suitable for use in high-volume manufacturing.

The research is detailed in the March 30 edition of the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Copyright 2010 by United Press International

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Guest Blog: Why Green is the Next Great Job Market

Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 5:24:15 o'clock PM GMT  

In case you've been living under a rock lately, the talk of green jobs by the media, the government and others has become a very hot topic.

  Canada will follow as will the rest of the world

There is good reason for this optimism. Right now, we are in the earliest stage of this new green economy. It's kind of like 1996, when the internet was just starting to create a dot com frenzy. Were it not for the great recession we'd be even farther along than we are now.

When the head of one of the world's largest venture capital firms calls green tech the "greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century" people tend to listen. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins made those comments on 60 Minutes in February.

So here are seven facts that prove why "green" is the next great job market.

1. The private sector views the clean energy economy as a significant opportunity. Venture capital investment in clean technology reached a total of about $12.6 billion by the end of 2008. In 2008 alone, investors directed $5.9 billion into American businesses in this sector, a 48% increase over 2007 investment totals.

2. The U.S. government has invested 80 billion dollars for research and development of clean energy technology.

3. Legislation in certain states is being passed to require a certain percentage of renewable energy use.

4. Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley fuel cell start-up has received $400 million in VC funds. When is the last time a start-up got that much cash?

5. The country has never been more energy conscious than it is today. People want to save money by being more energy efficient.

6. The number of jobs in America's emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two-and-a-half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007.

7. The U.S. will eventually adopt a national standard mandating that we use renewable energy.

Suffice to say, green jobs are coming. Will you be ready?

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Guest Blog: Why Green is the Next Great Job Market

Guest Blog: Why Green is the Next Great Job Market

When the head of one of the world's largest venture capital firms calls green tech the "greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century" people tend to listen. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins made those comments on 60 Minutes in February.