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More than a dozen U.S. companies, including Alcoa Inc., will pledge to invest more than $140 billion in efforts to cut carbon emissions. PHOTO: DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG NEWS (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

According to the WSJ, the list of companies pledging money and resources to fighting climate change contains many of the country’s most prominent corporations, including retailers, banks and tech companies. Financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have committed to financing billions of dollars in renewable energy plans. Tech companies like Google and Microsoft committed to purchasing 100% of the energy for their power-hungry data centers from renewable energy sources, in addition to a variety of other promises. Companies like Wal-Mart and PepsiCo have agreed to rethink elements of their supply chain in an environmentally conscious manner.

Carbon Recall is one of best renewable energy services businesses in existence today. Companies and homeowners in America are frustrated with the unpredictability of their utility bills and with their buildings and properties inefficient use of energy, and they’re willing to invest to make their properties more efficient and consequently more valuable.

About Carbon Recall: Carbon Recall, LLC is an Atlanta-based clean, renewable energy services company. Carbon Recall provides its affiliates the opportunity to offer a complete suite of clean, renewable energy solutions to their local residential and commercial property clients. For more information visit our website or send us an email.

solar panelA sun score represents the solar suitability of a building’s rooftop on a scale from one to 100. Sun Number, LLC has developed an algorithm that produces an accurate analysis of the solar energy potential of buildings via this website.

Realtors across the country are using this tool to determine the marketability of their listings based on the solar energy potential for a property. Clearly the focus and awareness of the benefits of renewable energy alternatives is increasing dramatically in the U.S.

About Carbon Recall: Carbon Recall, LLC is an Atlanta-based clean, renewable energy services company. Carbon Recall provides its affiliates the opportunity to offer a complete suite of clean, renewable energy solutions to their local residential and commercial property clients. For more information visit our website or send us an email.

 

Regenerative flight is not only possible, it’s doable! The Solar Impulse folks are about to prove it by circumnavigating the globe http://www.solarimpulse.com/

California, with one of the most aggressive renewable energy mandates in the country, recently declared the most aggressive energy storage mandate with a goal of 1.3 gigawatts of storage by 2020.

Be Power Tech is working on an air conditioner that produces electricity. The company’s commercial design is slated to produce 10 tons of cooling and 15kW of electricity.

According to Noemi Glickman with Bloomberg “The story should not be how falling oil prices will impact the shift to clean energy, it should be how the shift to clean energy is impacting the oil price”

A net-zero energy house produces at least as much energy as it consumes over the course of a year. A number of states are taking steps toward encouraging or even requiring construction of net-zero energy homes in the future. For example, California will require that, as of 2020, all newly constructed homes must be net-zero energy ready.

9 Aug 2013 | Netherlands

Damen delivers their first hybrid patrol vessel to Amsterdam               

The first hybrid vessel developed by Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld, has now been delivered to Waternet (the Water Network Foundation) in Amsterdam. 

Waternet is taking a leading role in reducing emissions from vessels within the municipality of Amsterdam as part of the city’s Air Quality Action Plan. The Waterspreeuw which means “Dipper” in English will be used for inspections, patrols and for enforcing various legislation and rules in Amsterdam’s canals and other waters.

The hybrid vessel can be powered entirely by electricity with a 130 kW electrically driven rudder propeller manufactured by Hydrosta. ESTechnology supplied 13 lithium polymer batteries for the drive system, providing enough electric power for at least 6 hours at an average cruising speed of 10 km/h. The Steyr/AMK diesel generator set complies with the European CCR3 standard for exhaust gas emissions set by the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine. This means that the engine easily complies with the CCR2 standard stipulated by the client.

The engine switches on automatically when the battery capacity falls below the minimum level. Using both drive systems, the Waterspreeuw has a top speed of 16 km/h; using the batteries alone, it can hold that top speed for an hour (6 hours at cruising speed). The engine provides additional capacity when necessary. However, the intention is for the vessel to operate on electric power.

The Waterspreeuw’s designers at Damen´s yard in Hardinxveld took account of the various different waters and bridges in and around Amsterdam. With its overall height of 1.80 metres, it can basically pass under all the bridges along the city’s sailing routes. The special hull design makes it a low-wash vessel, thus minimising inconvenience to houseboats during manoeuvres in Amsterdam’s busy canals. The rudder propeller and the 11 kW bow thruster ensure that it is highly manoeuvrable in the narrow canals. The new vessel has its own 3-metre spud pole, meaning that its can moor anywhere without being dependent on the mooring facilities available.  Darko Kapelina believes that a six hour range is just the start.