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:…
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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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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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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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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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…
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…
