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There’s more hope for alternative energy , and it’s not coming from the White House but from the house of ill fame. It seems that the former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss is shelving her plans to open up Heidi’s Stud Farm in Nevada where houses of prostitution are legal in most rural counties. Instead of providing “studs” for women, she has decided that there’s more money going green than staying blue.

“That’s where the money is,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “That’s the wave of the future.” (http://www.lvrj.com/news/39357657.html)

With its stable of men, Heidi’s Stud Farm would have been the first bordello catering to women in Nevada. It’s unclear if Fleisswould turn the Stud Farm into a wind farm or solar farm, but she told the Review-Jouranl she had an alternative energy project that’s “perfect for Nevada.”

While Fleiss may have something perfect for Nevada, The Washington Post is pointing out some of the problems large-scale alternative energy plants face.

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601199.html?)

It’s not new that the big projects have big problems, which is why Americans need to think bigger by going smaller. While there’s a need and a place for the big projects, there would be less pressure if we fought this battle on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood and house-by-house level.

That’s why I like the  Residential Renewable Energy Tax Credit, homeowners can now claim a full 30% of their installation costs for new residential solar-power systems, with no cost cap. Prior to this…
By Brooks Boliek

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory think they’ve proved that 1+1= more than 2, at least when it comes to solar cells. According to research published by Los Alamos scientists in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, it is  possible that solar cells can create more than one unit of energy per photon.

Victor Klimov, the scientist who led the research team, contends that their experiments prove that the phenomenon in nano-sized semiconductor crystals known as “carrier multiplication” actually exists, and isn’t just figment of some overactive imaginations or sloppy research. (http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/15709)

When a conventional solar cell absorbs a photon of light, it frees an electron to generate an electrical current. Energy in excess of the amount needed to promote an electron into a conducting state is lost as heat to atomic vibrations (phonons) in the material lattice. Through carrier multiplication, excess energy can be transferred to another electron instead of the material lattice, freeing it to generate electrical current—thereby yielding a more efficient solar cell.

Klimov and colleagues have shown that nanocrystals of certain semiconductor materials can generate more than one electron after absorbing a photon. This is partly due to strengthened interactions between electrons squeezed together within the confines of the nanoscale particles.

In 2004, Los Alamos researchers Richard Schaller and Klimov reported the first observations of strong carrier multiplication in nanosized crystals of lead selenide resulting in up to two electron-hole pairs per absorbed photon. A year later, Arthur…
By Brooks Boliek
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The American love affair with the car may have stalled, but that doesn’t mean the driving forces behind it aren’t trying to jump-start the relationship. (How’s that for mixed metaphors?) During a recent trade show in Western Michigan, auto parts makers think their ability to make parts for cars can be transferred into making parts for other things, like wind turbines and the other underpinnings of the “green economy.”

Dan Radomski, vice president of industry services, NextEnergy, was surprised to find that he had sell-out crowd at the Automotive Manufacturing Diversification conference at Grand Valley State University, According to Julia Bauer’s reports in The Grand Rapids Press. The event was hosted by The Right Place Inc. economic development group.

“I remember hosting supplier events just around the renewable, alternative energy industry three years ago, and we could barely get 20 people in a room,” Radomski told the crowd.

Parts for utility-grade wind turbines, the gear or direct-drive control boxes, and the massive blades could all be made in Michigan, he said. The U.S. already has 120 wind turbine manufacturers, but 50 percent of the demand must be imported. (http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2009/02/conference_for_auto_suppliers.html)

Making those things here could help sustain an automobile industry that is going to have to become less dependent…

By Brooks Boliek
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