If harnessing the sun’s energy for your home still isn’t enough efficiency for you, consider a new development by MIT scientists: power-generating windows.
Although the technology won’t be commercially available for about three years, it could open up whole new doors windows in renewable energy when it does hit the market. Ordinary glass or plastic is [...]
Solar water heaters are mandatory in all homes in Israel.
China, second to the US in total wind potential, plans to produce 30 gigawatts of wind power by 2020, enough to power between 13 and 30 million Chinese households.
The first plant to generate electricity using geothermal energy is in Tuscany. It began producing electricity in 1904 [...]
What can I do? I am only one person and everything seems so hopeless. I might as well give up. Do you know that feeling?
Well, whenever I feel like that I go look for stories of inspiration, and this morning a friend showed me just that. I was told about the Pickens Plan. The one [...]
“Danish experience from the past 15 years shows that offshore wind farms, if placed right, can be engineered and operated without significant damage to the marine environment and vulnerable species.
The comprehensive environmental monitoring programmers of Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm and Nysted Offshore Wind Farm confirm that, under the right conditions, even big wind farms [...]
After posting the “Algae to Biodisel” story, below, we saw this posting on Energy Answers by Jeff Goettemoeller.
“New Source for Biofuels Discovered by Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have managed to develop cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae, but not a true algae) that produces glucose [...]
Inventors at Stormblade Turbine Inc. may have made the windmill a neighborhood-friendly device, solving the noise issue associated with wind turbines, while doubling the efficiency of current models.
This prototype, which looks more like a jet engine-on-a-stick than a wind turbine, works by accelerating the wind onto the blades and is therefore more efficient at low and [...]
Investors’ Circle is a network of over 200 angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. Since 1992, Investors’ Circle has facilitated the flow of over $120 million into 190 companies and small funds addressing social and environmental issues.
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Plants such as soybeans and sunflowers produce oil that can be used to make biofuels. Although these crops have received a lot of media attention in the last several years, they require intensive management and may not be sustainable in the long term due to rising development and production costs. We believe a different type [...]
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Israel’s attempt to pressure Hamas with fuel cuts may impact Hamas’s ability to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. It also impacts civilian life in Gaza. It affects essential services for the civilian population. Hamas may be using what little resources are available to feed its terrorist activities, thus robbing the population of what resources [...]
John McCain is modifying on his position on offshore oil drilling. On June 17 he called for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, as a response to high gasoline prices. This will immediately change his relationship with the environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.
The move is of [...]
