Google Earth is in the news this morning with the announcement that the Keyhole Markup Language, used to create content layers in Google Earth, is now an open standard. There are already thousands of Keyhole-based layers for Google Earth, but finding the best ones is sometimes a needle in a haystack proposition.

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Mariah Power said on Wednesday that it has raised additional funding to bring its small wind turbine to market.
The company said it has secured $500,000 in funding from venture capital firm Big Sky Partners. As part of the investment, Michael Schwab of Big Sky Partners will join Mariah Power’s board.

Mariah Power’s vertical-axis wind turbine called [...]

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Wind power is worth it, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
ERCOT studied the costs and benefits of wind power in three scenarios and concluded that expanding wind power in Texas would outweigh the total costs of boosting the state’s electrical grid with conventional technologies. (Renewable Energy Access has a more detailed story here.)

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Green-building company Agilewaves and a California school have flipped the switch on a computer display that’s meant to give life to the school’s eco-friendly features and enhance its science curriculum.
The prekindergarten-through-eighth-grade Nueva School in Hillsborough, Calif., has incorporated a number of green features, including a 30-kilowatt solar array and a “living roof” of plants that [...]

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Chinese solar panel maker Trina Solar canceled plans to build a plant to make silicon, a move that will no doubt heat up debates over whether the silicon shortage might be coming to a close.
Like a lot of cell and panel makers, Trina laid out plans last year to ramp up production of silicon to [...]

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