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Susan Kraemer
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Mebiol’s Futuristic Hydrogel to Grow Food on Desert Sand
A hydrogel could make deserts flourish with crops grown on under a fifth of the water.
Why BrightSource Did not Need that IPO
When BrightSource withdrew its IPO this month, the death knell for solar was sounded, as always. The truth is more mundane. According to the always...
Morocco to Build Cars in Zero Carbon Factory
Morocco’s zero-carbon car factory opening earlier this month, via NY Times. The CEO of Renault–Nissan alliance Carlos Ghosn and Moroccan King Mohammed VI inaugerated French...
Solar-Rich Saudis Running after Nukes
It has no uranium, but lots of solar – yet Saudi Arabia plans to double down on nuclear capacity. As we covered previously, working with...
Interview: SolarReserve For the MENA Region?
This week I spoke to Kevin Smith, the CEO of SolarReserve, the U.S. company constructing the largest 24 hour solar project worldwide in Nevada, who...
Eole Uses Wind Power to Make Water From Desert Air
Abu Dhabi hosts successful test of prototype water condensation, using wind power. A revolutionary way to condense water from the desert air, powered by –...
Saudis Could Export Solar for the Next Twenty Centuries
Every square meter of Saudi Arabia produces an extraordinary 7 kilowatt hours of energy daily in each 12 hours of sun power. If the Saudis...
China Plans to Tap 600 MW of Wind Power in Turkey
Turkey’s massive wind resource has long been recognized. Now China’s wind giant Sinovel has signed an agreement to supply turbines to build 600 MW of wind...
Solar to Light Our Nights Gets Hotter
Able to store enough heat to generate power that can last well into the night, Masdar’s Gemasolar, built in Spain last year was state of the...
Saudis to Make Desert Sands into Solar Polysilicon
Saudi Arabia has lots of open land, and lots of sand which is rich in silicon; which is needed to make polysilicon for the solar...
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