China already dominates global market share for electric batters, wind turbines, and solar panels, and is rapidly boosting its capacity to innovate and produce next-generation clean energy technologies.
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Rare earth minerals are now an important national policy issue as politicians and media pundits discover the fact that rare earth minerals are required to produce things like electric cars, wind turbines, guided missiles, and iPods.
Resource Capital has not realized a penny from its investment in Molycorp, which aims to produce rare earth minerals (used in things like electric cars, wind turbines and iPods) at a previously shuttered mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Competitor GE Wind Energy, a unit of General Electric, ranked number one in wind turbines sales in the U.S. in 2009, according to a recent report from the American Wind Energy Association.
There is also a need to develop as yet absent resources including electricity through hydro electric generation or possible wind generation.
To some, the Obama administration's stimulus spending on everything from wind turbines to electric-car batteries was enlightened.
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Examples include motors, controls and other devices used in wind turbines, electric and hybrid vehicles, flat screen TVs, and military guided missiles.
Those with expertise in the automotive industry can apply their talents to wind turbine, Electric Vehicle (EV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) markets.
Well, how about investment in clean energy so that the solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars are built here in the United States?
BARCELONA, SPAIN - August 14, 2012 - Urban Green Energy (UGE) and GE (NYSE: GE) have unveiled the world's first integrated wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.
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The old church organ was replaced by a keyboard some years ago and the church makes use of young members who play electric guitars, violins and wind instruments.
And my administration has invested heavily in clean energy manufacturing, because I want to see the LEDs and solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars of tomorrow made right here in the U.S of A. I want them made right here.
No, not from wind, battery and electric cars, but from oil and gas.
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Cornwall can already produce more than 80 megawatts (MW) of electricity from wind, hydro-electric, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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Google, which has made big investments in wind, solar and electric car technologies, has never been shy about using its brand to promote stronger clean tech policies.
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Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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Yet, while we all enjoy reading articles about new gizmos, electric cars, space-age wind turbines, and of course, the latest advances in photovoltaics, these advancements represent only the surface of a much larger, systemic change in the way we will soon conduct business.
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Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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Until last year, China provided some 97% of the REEs available in the world, which are used increasingly to fabricate the magnets in wind-turbines and in electric vehicles.
Adding wind power to the existing electric grid may not have the effect of reducing carbon emissions as much as expected, according to a new study published by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
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"We believe the time has come for Congress to move quickly to enact national RPS legislation, " said the letter signed by General Electric, Google, Shell's wind energy division, BP America and the Sierra Club, among others.
On the day General Electric announced that it will supply the wind turbines for what's planned to be the world's largest wind farm, it also found out that it will have a new but familiar rival in the wind business.
Meanwhile, as California focuses upon wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, vast oil and gas resources remain undeveloped.
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China is now the largest exporter of solar panels and is fast expanding its capacity to produce wind turbines and advanced batteries for electric cars.
The innovative Sanya Skypump pairs UGE's cutting-edge vertical wind turbines with GE's electric vehicle (EV) charging technology to offer completely clean energy to power electric vehicles.
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Besides being used for hi-tech gadgets, the elements are also crucial for manufacturing low-carbon resources such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, said David Danielson, the US assistant secretary for renewable energy.
The Chinese government is spending millions of dollars on clean energy initiatives ranging from the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles in several major cities to massive wind farms in Inner Mongolia and offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
Sharp thinks farms of these units, much like wind farms, will supply factories and electric utilities with 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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