News tagged with private homeowners

Google invests $280 million to spur home solar

(AP) -- Google is investing $280 million to help private homeowners put solar panels on their rooftops. It's Google's latest - and largest - investment in clean energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Cheaper Solar Power's Time Has Come

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar power manufacturers in the US are cutting prices to shift their stock, the government is chipping in with tax credits, and innovative leasing or financing arrangements spreading payments ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 18 weblog




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America's clean energy policies need a reality check

America's approach to clean energy needs to be reformed if it is to meaningfully affect energy security or the environment, according to two new articles by Stanford writers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 89 | with audio podcast

Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups

(AP) -- The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 14

Beach replenishment a tough issue in Florida

(AP) -- The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A nation of frustrated home-movers

The downturn in the housing market in the last three years has left the UK a nation of frustrated, unfulfilled house-movers, according to the latest data from Understanding Society, a study of 40,000 UK households funded ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Managing private and public adaptation to climate change

New research has found that individuals and the private sector have an important role to play in the provision of public policies to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Optimism on solar energy: Energy secretary suggests ways domestic firms can prosper

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu struck an optimistic note about the future of solar energy Thursday but said the economic benefits of the emerging clean-energy industry will be reaped elsewhere if the business ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 8

UF survey: Florida real estate market slips once again

Florida real estate experts and investors were pessimistic for a second consecutive quarter, despite encouraging signs in the rise of occupancy rates and prices in the rental apartment market, a new University of Florida ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thinner thermal insulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Insulation panels that are both thin and effective are expensive. At present these high-end products are built into energy-saving refrigerators. Innovative components and production techniques ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

In wake of flooding, disinfect contaminated wells

The central and eastern parts of the state were saturated by frequent heavy rains in early August before being drenched by Hurricane Irene and then inundated by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. The resulting ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sewage-tainted floodwaters threaten public health

(AP) -- Nasty floodwaters from the remnants of Lee and Irene - tainted with sewage and other toxins - threaten public health in parts of the Northeast by direct exposure or the contamination of private water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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