Stephanie on March 13th, 2010
Roof top residential wind turbine

Residential wind turbine

Want to have more reliable, less expensive electricity?   Why not generate your own with residential wind power?

Solar and wind are two of the fastest growing distributed generation energy sources worldwide.  A number of factors have come into play:…

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Stephanie on February 23rd, 2010
google energy Google Energy Obtains Rights to Buy and Sell Electricity

Google Energy is authorized to buy and sell electricity in the U.S.

Are you ready to make your monthly utility check out to Google?  Though admittedly far-fetched, the idea is within the realm of possibilities due to an order issued last…

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Stephanie on February 22nd, 2010
Bill Gates at CES 2007

Gates shares his vision for a zero-emissions future

One of the most influential “rich guys” in the world, Bill Gates recently expanded his sphere of influence to include weighing on the debate on climate change.

Actually, Gates himself didn’t acknowledge the idiocy…

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Power transmission cables

Smart grids – who will pick up the $165 billion bill for energy upgrades?

Upgrading America’s electricity grid hit a snag last week as the thorny issue was raised of exactly how much improvements would cost, and more importantly who would…

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Roberta on February 16th, 2010
Omar Yaghi

UCLA Professor Omar Yaghi

Scientists at UCLA have created synthetic “genes” that may soon be able to gobble up the damaging carbon emissions that contribute to global warming and threaten life on earth as we know it.  The three-dimensional, synthetic…

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Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources

Review

“Renewable Energy Made Easy is a great read for people of all knowledge levels when it comes to going green. David Craddock does an amazing job at laying out the history, facts, pros, and cons of a variety of renewable…

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Roberta on February 7th, 2010
coal ash containment pond

Kingston TN coal ash containment disaster

Ever since a coal ash containment pond  broke in December of 2008, spewing coal ash into a nearby river and over 300 acres of farm and woodland,the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) has been rethinking…

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