Archive for the ‘Renewable energy’ Category
Greenasium: Power Your Own Exercise Equipment!
I am a huge fitness buff and when I’m not running outdoors, I enjoy the treadmill and indoor bicycle trainer. Regular gyms require a lot of electricity and other energy to operate. But at a new San Diego gym – Greenasium – patrons can both burn calories and power the gym. There are 3 specialized [...]
Geothermal Energy is Heating Up!
A few days ago, we published a post on residential geothermal systems. Geothermal energy is drawn from heat underground (usually steam) and can be used to heat and cool the interior of homes and buildings, as well as to heat water for tanks, pools and spas.
Did you know that the United States leads the world [...]
Geothermal Heating for Your Home
Geothermal energy – heat from deep underground – could be the next big thing in renewable energy. A recent MIT study concluded that enhanced geothermal energy systems could comprise 10% of electricity demands by 2050. Its low-cost and low-carbon emissions.
On a smaller level, geothermal heating for your home can help heat and cool your living [...]
Using Fat for Fuel
I will (shamefully) admit I took my kids through the drive-up window at McDonald’s recently. OK – we were on a road trip and everyone was thirsty… But the point of my story is that we all noticed a “green sign” proclaiming that the fast food giant was using fat for fuel. More precisely, it [...]
Paying for Utilities to Generate Green Power
Are you connected to the grid? Pay reasonable electricity bills each month? That could soon change.
As more and more states adopt renewable portfolio standards, utilities are being forced to invest in renewable energy in order to comply (i.e. 20% renewable energy by 2020). European countries are doing the same thing. Burning coal is on its [...]
Americans Against Off-Shore Drilling
If you’re like me, you are probably not surprised to hear that a majority of Americans are now against off-shore drilling for oil. If the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taught us anything, its not to listen to the assurances and platitudes of corporations that place profits at the top of [...]
Why Nuking the Oil Spill Is Not the Answer
Over a month ago, Russian scientists suggested that nuking the BP oil spill would stop the gusher and end the environmental damage. The Russians suggested a surgical nuclear strike and claimed to have used the technique on five of their own oil wells. They even offered to do it for us.
In spite of lots of [...]
About BP and the Oilspill
The oilspill in the Gulf is the all consuming news story in America these days. Week after week as we watch helplessly, things just seem to get worse and worse. At first it seemed like a high school science fair project gone wrong. Lately, with all the oil soaked birds and desperate people, it’s feeling [...]
Storing Renewable Energy as Natural Gas
One of the most difficult issues with renewable energy is storing it for future use. After all, what good is solar power when the sun is not shining? How can we use wind energy when breezes are still?
A German-Austrian co-operation believes there is a logical answer: transforming surplus electricity generated during sunny or windy days [...]
Wind Farms in the Great Lakes?
Could we see an offshore wind farm in the Great Lakes?
The possibility is very real, as the New York Power Authority has started reviewing a series of land use and environmental applications for a wind farm to be sited in either Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. With a lengthy review process and then adding in [...]
Largest Wind Farm in North America
One of the largest wind farms in North America is planned in Baja, California. The wind turbine installation will power over 250,000 households with 500 megawatts of power from now until 2015. Clean, renewable power will be flowing on both sides of the border: Mexico and California will both benefit from the wind development by [...]
American Wind Energy Association Annual Conference in Dallas
They’re gathering in Dallas,Texas this week for the annual American Wind Energy Association conference. The AWEA should be … and apparently is…. taking full advantage of shifting winds of sentiment regarding renewable energy in light of the ongoing tragedy of the BP Oil Spill right in its own Gulf of Mexico backdoor.
At the AWEA conference [...]
Green Job Market Growing in Kansas
Kansas Wind Farm near Salina
If there are two things Kansas has plenty of, it’s sun and wind– things that used to make life hard for farmers, but that are now powering a new and growing green job market in the Sunflower state. According to the Kansas Green Jobs Report, just released by the state Department [...]
On the Radar: Wind Power and National Security
When it comes to renewable energy, there are a number of considerations beyond the obvious ones (cost, appearance, CO2 emissions saved, etc.) This may not have been on your radar, but wind power and National Security have had an uneasy co-existence… until now.
The U.S. Defense Department has recently announced that the Pentagon is stepping up [...]
Connecting Smart Metering with Social Networks
What do you think we could achieve by peer pressure to reduce our energy usage or even carbon footprint? Much like a smoker that takes his campaign public to quit the habit, there is now a push to connect smart metering with social networks.
In Finland, the country has been working hard to update its national [...]
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Greenasium: Power Your Own Exercise Equipment!
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Enjoy Our National Parks
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Keep Our Beaches Clean and Green
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Solar Rebates Offered by the City of Edmonton, Alberta
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Pacific Northwest Old Growth Forests
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- Solar Electricity Handbook: 2010 Edition, A Simple Practical Guide to Solar Energy – Designing and Installing Photovoltac Solar Electric Systems [Paperback]The Solar Electricity Handbook is a practical and straightforward guide to using electric solar panels. Assuming no previous knowledge of solar panels, the book explains how solar panels work, how they can be used and explains the steps you need to take to successfully design and install a solar electric system from scratch using photovoltaic [...] […]
- Solar Market SurgingA PR Newswire post this week reports that the solar market is surging. Around the world, people are becoming more concerned about CO2 emissions and the need to increase reliance on renewable energy resources. In addition, government tax incentives and feed-in tariffs are fueling the demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) products and materials. As reported [. […]
