Archive for ‘Environment’

Autodesk crunches numbers for green designs

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A paper bottle? Ecologic packages spare the Earth

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Cleaire gains speed with diesel engine filter

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Propel hits the road with 24 ‘clean fuel point’ stations

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Svan Song: Exploring a Hidden Culture

Light at the Middle of the World

It is the only country in Latin America with a Ministry of Renewable Energy. And due to its location on the equator, it receives some of the Earth's highest levels of solar irradiation. Nevertheless, from the Andes to the Amazon, Ecuador is struggling to bring its energy policies in line with its enormous photovoltaic potential.

Mexico at a Crossroads

At the National Solar Energy Association's annual gathering, held in October in the colonial city of Guanajuato, PHOTON discovered a Mexican photovoltaic industry in fast expansion despite lack of government incentives.

Headache in the Heartland

As a conservative electorate awash in cheap electricity, Nebraskans remain a hard bunch to change. Now, with solar energy lifting off at schools, businesses and farms around the state, the question is whether PV in the heartland can compete

First we take Manhattan

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) has been employed by the US military since the 1970s. Now, New York City is using the 3-D laser technology to pinpoint its photovoltaic potential - and is creating the first solar map of the Big Apple.

To Light an Island

As hundreds of photovoltaic systems get installed across the Kuna Yala island territory in Panama, lives are changing and an indigenous culture is being preserved.