Technology:
A program at Drexel University is increasing the efficiency of dye-sensitized photovoltaics. [Product Design & Development]
Japan:
¶ Algae can remove cesium and strontium from water, so algae will be used as part of cleanup efforts, with mechanical harvesting. [Zacks.com]
¶ Japan has a trial operation starting for its first offshore floating wind farm off the coast of Goto Islands, Nagasake Prefecture. The wind farm installed a trial 100 kilowatt turbine equipped with an 11-meter rotor diameter on a 60-meter tower. [Marinelink]
US:
¶ Renewable power generation is growing in the US. New installations are more than double those of coal, and catching up with natural gas. In the last four years, US renewable electric production capacity has grown by 79%. Solar has increased 285%, and wind 172%. [Power Engineering]
¶ In parts of drought-struck Midwest, some farmers are getting an income by harvesting the wind. [Huffington Post]
¶ In California, geothermal power is having trouble competing with solar. [Forbes]
¶ The tidal power project in Eastport, Maine, is progressing. It is receiving $10 million from the DOE. [Electric Power & Light]
¶ The Connecticut River Watershed Council says Vermont Yankee is discharging too much hot water into the Connecticut River. [Commons]
¶ An employee of GE Hitachi has filed a whistleblower lawsuit, claiming he was placed on probation for refusing to make a change in an alarm plan because he believed it would be a violation of NRC regulations. [StarNewsOnline.com]
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