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Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Tesla Model S: 99/100 On Consumer Reports Test, Best Score Ever Double Wind Power, Save Nearly $7 Billion Per Year In Mid-Atlantic US European & Global Solar PV 2012–2017 (EPIA Report) The Tesla Model S Has A Secret Menu! Solar News Roundup Legendary Investor Warren Buffet Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wind Power Graph Of The Day: How To Green World's Largest Grid 2014 Is Looking To Be A 7,000 Megawatt Year For Wind Power Capacity And Innovation Green Steel — New Steelmaking Process Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cuts Costs, & Improves Quality Excerpts: Tesla Model S: 99/100 On Consumer Reports Test, Best Score Ever This article was originally published on CleanTechnica sister site Gas2. Many an automotive publication has heaped praise upon the Tesla Model S electric sedan, but one well-respected outlet has been mum, until now. Consumer Reports recently rated the Tesla Model S, giving it a score of 99/100, making it the highest-scored cars in the publication's history. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, haters. The only knock on the Tesla Model S, in Consumer Reports eyes, … Read More Tesla Model S: 99/100 On Consumer Reports Test, Best Score Ever was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Double Wind Power, Save Nearly $7 Billion Per Year In Mid-Atlantic US The below article is courtesy of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid. WASHINGTON, DC – Adding more wind power to the grid in the PJM region can lower gas and coal consumption and reduce regional wholesale energy market prices, saving nearly $7 billion per year in the mid-2020s, according to a new study conducted by Synapse Energy Economics on behalf of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG). The report found that doubling the wind generation … Read More Double Wind Power, Save Nearly $7 Billion Per Year In Mid-Atlantic US was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » European & Global Solar PV 2012–2017 (EPIA Report) The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) has gone out and confirmed what others had already reported — the global solar PV market grew by about 30 GW in 2012 (31.1 GW by EPIA’s recording). But its report also includes a lot of other interesting and useful information about the European and the global solar marketplace. As I’ve reported in previous articles about 2012′s solar numbers, the year marked a bit of a shift away from Europe … Read More European & Global Solar PV 2012–2017 (EPIA Report) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » The Tesla Model S Has A Secret Menu! This article was originally published on Gas2. The Tesla Model S apparently has a hidden menu that may reflect upcoming features and apps. So, is there anything good hidden behind the screen? There is a new video that displays the secret menu mentioned above. It shows apps and features that may be included in the future, some of which include a lane-departure warning, blind-spot detection, and adaptive cruise control. When these options might arrive is anyone's … Read More The Tesla Model S Has A Secret Menu! was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Solar News Roundup Some more solar news for your reading pleasure: Spain PV Tariff Did Not Increase 2012 Tariff Deficit Solar3D Moving Towards Manufacturing Prototype SolarCity Litigation Update City of Sacramento and SolarCity Announce Completion of Solar Projects at Two City Water Treatment Plants 170 MW Of New Solar PV Capacity Installed In Italy During April How Solar Cells Work — Components, Operation Of Solar Cells 140 MW Of New Solar Capacity Planned For New Jersey More stories … Read More Solar News Roundup was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Legendary Investor Warren Buffet Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wind Power Iowa Governor Terry Branstad went out on a limb last year, bucking his party and his candidate to lobby with Democrats for extending a key federal tax credit for wind power. The credit was extended after a pitched battle in Congress, and Branstad’s gamble has just paid off in spades with the announcement of a $1.9 billion investment in new Iowa wind farms by MidAmerican Energy Company, which comes under the corporate family of wind … Read More Legendary Investor Warren Buffet Pumps $1.9 Billion Into Iowa Wind Power was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Graph Of The Day: How To Green World's Largest Grid This article was first published on RenewEconomy Today's graph of the day is not so much a graph as a series of animations, produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the US, to show how the world's largest electricity grid could be transformed to a high-level renewable system by 2050 – resulting in sharp reductions in greenhouse gases and water consumption. The animations are based  on the NREL RE Futures modeling and show capacity changes, the … Read More Graph Of The Day: How To Green World's Largest Grid was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » 2014 Is Looking To Be A 7,000 Megawatt Year For Wind Power Capacity And Innovation This article was first published on Climate Progress by Jeff Spross According to Bloomberg, Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. is gearing up to drop $1.9 billion on new wind farms in Iowa. The investment might build as many as 656 new turbines by 2015, which would add as much as 1,050 megawatts of wind power capacity to the 2,285 megawatts the company already operates in the state. The project could also herald a revival in American … Read More 2014 Is Looking To Be A 7,000 Megawatt Year For Wind Power Capacity And Innovation was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Green Steel — New Steelmaking Process Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cuts Costs, & Improves Quality The production of steel is one of the most energy-intensive of all industrial activities, and also responsible for a good portion of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The world produces about 1.5 billion tons of steel annually. The enormous, extremely hot cauldrons where this steel is made contribute around 5% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. On average, the production of one ton of steel generates about two tons of CO2 emissions. But now, … Read More Green Steel — New Steelmaking Process Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cuts Costs, & Improves Quality was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). 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Top Cleantech Stories Of The Day!

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency Excerpts: US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics For years now, the US Navy has been raising alarms over the impact of continued petroleum dependency on national security, and now it looks like the oil-soaked chickens have come home to roost. According to an article last week by the Office of Naval Research, the Navy’s new laser weapons system (LaWS) makes a stem-to-stern overhaul of the way that warships deploy energy a matter of top priority. Quite simply, LaWS and other new systems … Read More US Navy Trains Laser Weapon On Research Critics was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks An improved form of concrete, made by utilizing a waste material of the agricultural industry — sunflower seed husks — has been created by researchers at the Namik Kemal University in Turkey. The husks are a waste product of the vegetable oil and food industry, and are produced in enormous quantities, so any potential use for them would be a big plus with regards to waste reduction. The improvements are related to fact that through … Read More Improved Concrete Via Use Of Sunflower Seed Husks was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia South Australia has a lot of wind power. The neighbouring state of Victoria doesn’t. Even though Victoria has just recently opened the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere, its wind capacity only supplies about 5% of its total electricity use. As a result, when winds are high and its demand is low, South Australia exports electricity to Victoria. However, sometimes the transmission lines reach the limit of their capacity causing some wind power to … Read More Improved Transmission To Aid Wind Power In Australia was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid A distributed power-clean energy milestone was reached late last week as leaders from government and industry joined officials from the University of Delaware and NRG energy to celebrate the first instance of electric vehicle-to-grid (EV2G) technology being used to sell electricity to the power grid. Ongoing success could well provide a critical missing link on the path to a clean, green, renewable and distributed energy infrastructure, economy, and society. eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released In only a couple of months, an incredible resource will be released to the public, a comprehensive list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that are useful for the creation of cheap, printable, photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The list was created as part of Harvard’s Clean Energy Project. The project makes use of IBM’s World Community Grid — which is essentially a program that makes use of the collective surplus computing power of the computers of … Read More Printable Solar Cell Encyclopedia To Be Released was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency Amonix Inc. is no stranger to setting peak efficiency records with its concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems. As a matter of fact, it just set a new record that successfully converted more than 36% of direct sunlight into electricity. This new achievement breaks the old record Amonix established in May 2012 of 34.2% peak efficiency. Amonix has been the leading designer and manufacturer of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power systems for quite some time. This result continues Amonix's long history of … Read More Amonix Breaks Own World Record For Solar PV Module Efficiency was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). 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