According to the recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's global CO2 emissions over the previous year has risen sharply:Worldwide in 2010 were up 6 percent, or more than 564 million tons of carbon dioxide emitted in 2009.The contribution of the developed countries in total emissions in 1990 amounted to 60 percent, but dropped to 50 percent. Read More…

On 31.10 to break the world population of the 7 billion mark. When I heard that, I first had to swallow. Just like Hans Rosling, whose TED Speech I would like to share today, I can still remember 1999 as the 6 billion mark was broken. Our geography teacher told us about them in school. At that time I was able to assess the impact of such developments do not quite, but somehow it had been 99 something frightening. Read More…

It all started at a trade show with this little helicopter by Sol-Expert. The finely processed solar helicopter has received much attention. He has impressed me, especially because it seems as if there really good for a change, cells were used and not just waste, as with many other devices.Time I decided to get me some solar gadgets and publish the test results here. Read More…

learn For the first time I have about the project at the Green Expo in June. The model on the solar village, there has already attracted many people. Here we go seems really, because the construction of the largest residential energy-autonomous system of Carinthia has begun.The solar village Finkenstein on Faak will evolve in the next three years. Read More…

A 10km-long motorway section of the “Autostrada del Sole” in Calabria, that is, the “toe of Italy”, which was built in the 60s and 70s, will be a result of “aging” will soon shut down. The section of highway runs through a mountainous coastal terrain and is characterized by many tunnels and high bridges. Read More…

Energy expert, bestselling author and documentary filmmaker Hans Kronberger has recently published a very interesting book titled “We're running out of the sun” was published. He shows it in the way of energy utilization of man since the Stone Age, the characteristics of each fossil fuels, on the dependence and perceived invulnerability of the West of fossil fuels, which scholarly views of Peak Oil, explains relationships between centralization of power and exploitation, describes climate conferences and what they have brought us to strategies for renewable energy preventer and paints from the Copernican energy revolution and the new age that has already begun some interesting points I can pick out in this blog entry. Read More…

Well since I'm In few days here in Germany to gather experience in the solar Mecca and wonder in everything you hear here so again and again: Why do the Austrian banks are not really the huge potential that is functioning in a Green Electricity Act for PV infected, no? I would have liked even numbers, how much coal the German banks, with these 100% secure loans which are financed by the KfW and back parts even three times insured, have made. Read More…

The review period for the new “patchwork” aka Green Electricity Act is to end yesterday. Now let's get to negotiate. A good time for the new Market Outlook published by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association noted. Here are the projections of installed capacity for all of Europe and published simultaneously shown a snapshot of the current installed capacity. Read More…

There is nothing further than me being hounded on the industry to operate, but if so unevenly distributed power relations, I can not help it. Stupid way I run at startup more research for my chance to inconsistencies in the energy industry that are beyond my simple common sense. In the last post I mentioned briefly the issue of industry awards,. Read More…

Hooray! Finally we get to the part of the series, which I've most enjoyed! The lighting of feed-in tariffs in several European countries. To explain the meaning behind the whole thing but it was important to give something to “general knowledge”. In the next posts I will bring positive and negative examples, where this is a subjective perception of the past three years or so that I am busy. Read More…