Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Oil and Solar Do Mix
-Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
-Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding
-Passive Solar Design Overview – Part 5: Distribution, Ventilation, and Cooling
-Google working on “smart” plug-in hybrid charging
-10p to create a solar power sector in UK
-Saving BIG on electricity costs: chest refrigerators
San Antonio’s new Mayor Julian Castro, in office just three months, has inherited a dilemma. The nation’s 7th largest city is suffering from almost 8% unemployment. With limited resources, the Mayor and City Council are searching for ways to create local jobs. At the same time, the City, through its municipal utility City Public Service (CPS), is burning through hundreds of millions of dollars on just paperwork, to prepare to spend billions on a new nuclear power plant project some 200 miles away at Bay City, TX.
-On burning wood, coppicing and pollarding
-Floating challenge for offshore wind turbine
-Renewable Fuel Pretenders
-Pumping Up the Grid: Key Step to Green Energy
-US and China to unveil joint plan to ‘take over’ cleantech market
-Efforts to turn empty lots to a glass half full
-Obama’s Speech: The Doctor Is In
-Tom Friedman, our one-party democracy, and the clean energy jobs message
-Risk Pool
For decades the “Holy Grail” of the New Energy Economy has been to find ways to store wind and solar energy. The answers are here, and they are much more plain and simple than we thought. Like Indiana Jones in his Last Crusade, we need to see the Grail that is right before our eyes. The means to enable solar and wind energy to serve as our primary energy supplies are at hand.
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
-Hooked: George Monbiot on fishing
-Objectors to wind farms to be bought off
-Oil giants destroy rainforests to make palm oil diesel for motorists
-Peak Oil and Tourism
-Let There Be Light!
-Bolivians look to ancient farming
-Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
-Another bold move in Portland
-Scientists explore how the humble leaf could power the planet
-Raising Wind Turbine Output With Longer Blades
-How a wind farm could emit more carbon than a coal power station
-India sets out ambitious solar power plan to be paid for by rich nations
-Asian giants put the West’s targets for solar energy in the shade
-Boom in hydropower pits fish against climate
-Are wind farms a health risk? US scientist identifies ‘wind turbine syndrome’
More wind than we thought?
On the Brink of a New Era in Energy (interview with Siemens CEO)
Gerry Wolff at TREC-UK updates the Desertec story (video)
