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Bush cleantech fund "window dressing"

January 28, 2008 - by Dallas Kachan - Industry observers shot holes in the cleantech rhetoric of the U.S. President's State of The Union address tonight. Full Story »

Tampa Bay desalination plant rises again

January 28, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - The largest seawater desalination facility in the U.S. was beset by developer bankruptcies and plant design problems. Full Story »

New technology to boost geothermal industry?

January 7, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - Modular components and hybrid cooling look promising, according to a new report from the Geothermal Energy Association. Full Story »

Concentrated solar gets salty

January 4, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - Hamilton Sundstrand and US Renewables plan to commercialize a solar thermal system that uses molten salt for energy storage. Full Story »

Latest ethanol casualty: shrimp

It doesn't end with driving up the price of food (and beer).

The latest casualty of America's rush to corn-based ethanol appear to be shrimp and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico.

The seasonal dead zone caused by nitrogen fertilizer runoff down the Mississippi from the American heartland has about doubled in size since scientists began studying it in 1985.

This year, with the amount of land put into corn production for ethanol, it's expected to be even worse, according to researchers.

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