Alternative energy no longer alternative
As the world seeks new sources of power, renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biofuel, is being tapped to a greater degree than ever. They are called renewable because they replenish themselves.
Wind Energy
Green power’s potential
Summary of the major forms of renewable energy, and how they are being implemented locally in Ohio.
Wind farms could meet energy needs
(CNN) — Wind power could generate more than enough sustainable electricity to meet global energy needs, according to new research.
An ugly face of ecology
Wind farms, while necessary, are a classic example of what environmentalists call an “end-of-the-pipe solution”. Instead of tackling the problem – our massive demand for energy – at source, they provide less damaging means of accommodating it.
Lessons from Cape wind
It is now approaching four years since Cape Wind filed for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to build the largest, most ambitious offshore wind energy project in the world.
Could wind generators slow climate mixing and the arctic thaw?
Thought-provoking comments from an alert Newfoundland reader, following on from the ‘methane-burps’ fears covered previously. Could suitably placed wind turbines reduce climate mixing, slow the warming of arctic regions, and so avoid catastrophic methane emissions from thawing tundra?
White House budget slashes clean energy
A Look at the Administration’s Budget Request for Sustainable Energy Programs in FY2006.
Germany split over green energy
Germany’s ambitious plan to phase out nuclear power by 2020 while also reducing its reliance on fossil fuels has made it a leader in efforts to fulfil the Kyoto protocol.
But critics are now predicting an energy crisis.
The new age of sail
THE coming of steam sent the world’s great sailing fleets into decline. The internal combustion engine finally finished them off. So it would be a strange twist of fate if the age of sail was resurrected by what amounts to a child’s toy: a kite.
Report doubts future of wind power
Wind farms are an expensive and inefficient way of generating sustainable energy, according to a study from Germany, the world’s leading producer of wind energy.
Peak Oil – Peak Technology
It would seem that – in addition to Peak Oil – we are at a time of Peak Technology… there are no new technologies we can look to for solutions to the end of fossil fuels.
Estonia: Wind farm takes off at former nuke base
On the site where border guards used to keep watch on the western outpost of the Soviet Union, Baltic European Union newcomer Estonia is erecting a wind farm to generate clean electricity.