Just days after the historic presidential election in the United States, projects are starting to line up for President-Elect Barack Obama. Obama campaigned heavily on issues related to renewable energy and independence from foreign oil supplies. Now, he is being urged by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection to create a unified power [...]
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I live in Central Oregon, an area of the United States that is rich in geothermal resources. The region is dotted with volcanoes and lava fields - evidence of the earth’s continued creation over millions of years. Recently, there has been quite a debate about the environmental impacts of geothermal exploration. One [...]
Today, Wednesday November 5, 2008, the entire world is waking up to a new day in America. President-elect Obama has promised to bring great change with respect to the environment, new renewable energy policies and - we hope - the slowing of global warming. Perhaps we can finally be released from the grasp of foreign [...]
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On Monday, October 27, 2008, Bend, Oregon-based InEnTec LLC announced that it has formed a subsidiary company with a Chicago firm, Lakeside Energy LLC, to build waste-to-gas facilities for chemical industry in the United States. The new subsidiary, called InEnTec Chemical LLC, will first construct a facility at Dow Corning’s Michigan plant [...]
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Turn on the news these days and all you’ll hear about is the economy - stock market losses, banks failing, unemployment on the rise. Surely there are tough times ahead.
Some skeptics say that the current economic crisis is no time to talk about alternative energy and related investments. But the real experts advise [...]
More green news from Bend, Oregon! This time, its an announcement from InEnTec, LLC, a company based right here in Central Oregon, that it will be employing its proprietary technology, Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) to convert waste into ethanol fuel in “the first commercial scale production facility of its kind in the U.S.”
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I was not surprised to learn that ABC refused to run the Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America ad, following the most recent presidential debate. ABC chose to run Chevron ads. NBC ran Exxon and CNN had the coal lobby. Clean, renewable energy was nowhere in sight. Exactly the way the big [...]
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I’m not a techie gadget geek at all. As long as a gadget does it’s job and looks cute, I’m a happy girl. Yes, I buy on cuteness as much as practicality. I’ve told you before that I can be a bit shallow, even when greening up my life. I’ve been focusing lately on little [...]
How much do you know about wind as a source of renewable, clean energy?
You may be surprised to learn that people thousands of years ago set up crude wind energy devices to pump water from wells and grind grains.
The following video from space.com beautifully illustrates the past, present and future of wind energy.
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Yes, that’s right. The Amish are into renewable energy. They are going green the Amish way. They may shun cell phones, radio and TV, and ride around in black horse drawn buggies(with solar powered lanterns), but they were green long before going green was cool. Back in the 1920’s Amish [...]