Posts Tagged ‘alternative energy’
Atmospheric Electricity to Power Your Home?
Electricity is in the air! You know this is true, each time you witness a thunderstorm with bolts of lightening filling the skies. But could you use atmospheric electricity to power your home?
Researchers are working on technology that could someday draw electricity from thin air. Building on centuries of research, theories and analysis in the [...]
Can You Generate Electricity with Your Workout?
Students at the University of Oregon are working hard (literally) to find out the answer to a pressing question in today’s energy climate: can you generate electricity with your workout? What would you do to keep the lights on at your home, while cutting utility costs?
The University of Oregon Student Recreation Center has been retrofitted [...]
Is Nuclear Power an Answer to the Energy Crisis?
Talk about nuclear power has been resurrected again with grim news about climate change and the push for energy independence for the United States. In fact, an Oregon State University (OSU) professor, Brian Woods, claims that nuclear power has a bright future and advocates construction of nuclear power plants across the nation to meet “future [...]
Top 5 Myths About Corn-Based Ethanol
Over the past year, alarming articles have been published linking high food prices to the demand for the alternative fuel, corn-based ethanol. Some have even positioned the issue as one of rich vs. poor. Rich Americans demand cheaper fuel for their gas-hogging SUVs, and then poor residents in other nations around the world go to [...]
A Green Economy
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 [...]
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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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5 Ways to Green Your Back to School Routine
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Is Your City “Plug-Worthy”?
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Saving Sea Otters
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- Solar-Powered School Buses2010 is turning out to be the year of the electric vehicle. With back to school season in full swing, kids in Wisconsin can soon get a lesson in energy efficiency before they even reach the school steps. A new fleet of plug-in electric hybrid school buses will be transporting students in the Oconomowoc school [...] […]
- Solar Energy DisadvantagesI’m sure that we can all agree that finding reliable alternative energy sources is critical in the coming decades. Regardless of whether you believe that the planet is warming, we simply cannot continue to burn fossil fuels as if they will always be available for our use. Obviously, I’m a proponent of solar power since [...] […]
