About Susan Kraemer:

Susan Kraemer enjoys writing to publicize the many great solutions for climate change that we can find if we just put our minds to it. She covers renewable policy and clean energy for CleanTechnica and GreenProphet and green building at HomeDesignFind. She recently moved home to Waiheke Island where her writing is now powered by the 80% renewable electricity that powers New Zealand.

Posts by Susan Kraemer:

Department of Energy To Test Wave Power Tech In Hawaii

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A modest funding of $500,000 is being made available by the U.S. Department of Energy to test a wave power project for a year.

Solar Panels Shade Cattle In Win-Win For Agribusiness

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A ground-mounted concentrated photovoltaic system at a California feedlot provides power while shading cattle from the blistering sun.

Captured CO2 + Geothermal = Ultra-Clean Power

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A South Dakota geothermal firm will use sequestered carbon dioxide instead of geothermal fluids to produce geothermal power.

Melancholia: The Psychology Of Climate Change Awareness

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Just as the planet Melancholia moves inexorably closer to Earth, writes EarthTechling’s Susan Kraemer, a similar unprecedented calamity moves inexorably closer to us, through time.

Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions

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Students took home $200,000 in prizes for green ideas at an awards ceremony held at California Institute of Technology for a Department of Energy competition.

Giant Wind Farm To Go Above Welsh Coal Seam

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Wind finally battles coal directly on its ancient territory in Wales, home of coal mining since the fifteenth century.

Many Firsts In First Wind’s Palouse Project

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An empty field on farmland near the Washington-Idaho border is being dug up to erect the first wind farm in the heart of the Palouse region.

Renewable Revolution: Don’t Worry, It’s Coming

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Sure there are obstacles, but when EarthTechling columnist Susan Kraemer steps back to look at the big picture on clean energy, she sees big change on the way.

Fish Thriving Amid Offshore Turbines, Danes Say

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A just-completed Danish study of the effects of offshore wind farms on fish populations finds fish thriving, with increased diversity in rock-loving species.

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Blocking Clean Energy?

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A study just published at Nature Climate Change suggests that fossil fuel subsidies in some developing nations stand most in the way of clean energy.