GLG News by Solar Cells Experts

Last week I wrote here that the statements made by GM about the mode of operation of the shortly to be forthcoming Chevrolet Volt were nonsensical. GM said that the Volt would be an 'electric car,' but, based on the statements now made by GM spokesmen it could only be an electric car, which would have...

Zero-landfilling is a goal that is now reality. GM is one of the leading major manufacturing companies demonstrating that corporate plants can lower disposal costs by 100% recycling and reuse of their wastes. By performing this task, GM lowers their carbon footprint.  

Since the 1970s, corporations are required to meet environmental regulations in air, water, solid and hazardous wastes etc. Over the years, many companies eventually developed strategic plans to implement pollution prevention, that is reduce wastes at the beginning of the manufacturing...

The management of GM, Ford, and Chrysler are individually and collectively the worst set of managers that any American owned and operated heavy industry has ever had. Until this group of managers is gone there is no hope for GM, Ford, or Chrysler. There is no value in lending or subsidizing this...

The Chevrolet Volt, if it is brought to market too early, will fail both in its intended use and in its operation. 

There are two non-silicon chemistries now being hyped as the bases for thin-film solar cells: 1. Cadmium telluride, and 2. Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Neither is practical at all.

Biomass is now very expensive, has a low energy density, and biomass for energy would compete for food.

The future of the personal automobile is in the gasoline or kerosene(diesel) burning internal combustion engine. Future cars will be small, lightweight, and get 50 MPG and more. The Toyota prius hybrid already gets 50 MPG right off the showroom floor. This is why Toyota is increasing the production...

Is a rare earth mining boomlet under way?

Incredibly American states from which manufacturing jobs were lost by the hundreds of thousands over the last few years are bribing foreign heavy industry, the very industry that we were told by Wall Street was 'obsolete in the modern globalized American service economy, to set up manufacturing plants...