The Prius, LED lighting, and mature solar and wind technologies all have the same thing in common.
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To put the scale in perspective, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2010 was about 1.79 MW, up from 1.74 MW in 2009 and 1.66 MW in 2008, according to the 2010 Wind Technologies Market Report.
Google said its "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal" initiative will focus initially on solar thermal power, wind power technologies, geothermal systems and other technologies.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) said its "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal" initiative will focus initially on solar thermal power, wind power technologies, geothermal systems and other technologies.
The Hywind, a 2.3 megawatt (MW) wind turbine built by Siemens, combines technologies from both the wind farming industry and the oil and gas sectors, and will be tested off the coast of Norway for two years.
There are sound economic and other reasons why new, clean technologies like wind, solar, advanced biofuels and batteries should be supported even though they currently cost more then fossil fuel technologies.
Wind is by far the cheapest of the renewable energy technologies, so wind development should grow steadily over the next several years as state renewable power mandates toughen and the federal government contemplates putting a price on carbon.
We're investing in new technologies to produce electricity in cleaner ways, including solar and wind energy, clean coal technologies.
That's not as clean as solar or wind, but those technologies cannot (yet) compete on price.
Others are engineering careers tied to research in renewable technologies like wind energy and ethanol production.
European companies are competing, as are the Chinese, who threaten to overtake U.S. development in solar, wind and other key technologies.
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Use the latest technologies like wind and solar for water and power.
Clean energy technologies like wind, solar, nuclear, and electric vehicles are more expensive than carbon-intensive alternatives and suffer from limited performance and intermittency problems.
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Such a stimulus would even give us a cleaner environment, as gas is replacing dirtier coal and is most easily integrated with renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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Orion, for example, was able to open with the help of small business loans and incentives that are creating demand for clean energy technologies like wind power and solar panels.
Unfortunately many new production technologies dislike Wind energy.
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In other words, when the oil runs out, which it eventually will, Abu Dhabi wants to be ready to sell the world solar or wind or whatever renewable technologies will be needed to supply people's energy needs.
Indeed, various companies, including GE, are investing heavily in ways to come up with cost-effective systems to store the wind and solar energy that their wind turbines and solar technologies capture in combination with other means of generating electricity and power.
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In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and U.K. oil company BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
Also, since the necessarily erratic nature of wind power necessitates the development of energy-storage technologies to guarantee continuous supply, wind power can also act as a spur to the development of a hydrogen economy in which cars no longer require petroleum fuel.
In this sense CCS is no different from the historical development of nuclear, wind, solar and other technologies.
Solar, wind, and other renewable technologies have come a long way since 1979.
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Environmentalists fret that new nuclear plants will come at the expense of eco-friendly technologies such as wind and wave power.
Companies like Danotek Motion Technologies, a wind turbine maker based in Canton, Michigan, has 100% local manufacturing and assembly operations.
McCormick abides by his words of ensuring that dual-use technologies do not wind up in the hands of the Chinese military establishment.
Although Japanese firms are leaders in green technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal, these sources account for only 1% of all power generation.
We can invest in American businesses that power our country with all kinds of innovative technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal systems, hybrid and electric cars, and next-generation batteries.
But in fact, the twin decisions could actually give a boost to energy companies that are already betting their future on investment in alternative fuel sources such as wind, nuclear and coal technologies.
The fate of solar, wind and who knows what other technologies could hang in the balance.
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