Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Image: Zunal It may only be a matter of time now before Oregon is home to the world's largest wind farm -- a massive, 845 MW project just received a partial guarantee for a billion-plus dollar loan from the US Dept. of Energy. Furthermore, the site for the project, in Eastern Oregon, has been finalized. And lets not forget ...
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Elon Musk hard at work in his office. Photo: OnInnovation , CC It's the Time for Giving Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and chairman of Solarcity (yeah, he's a busy man), and Solarcity have donated a 25-kilowatt solar power system to the South Bay Communities Alliance's (SBCA) Hurricane Response Center in Coden, Alabama. ... Read ...
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A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan's Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn't an easy find, though. Seems shooting bullets at wind farms is nothing new. The ...
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Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It's 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert ...
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Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It's 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert ...
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Photo: ? ?? / Chris Lim , Wikimedia, CC Energy hawks -- hell, all of us, really -- have no doubt gotten a little tired of hearing about how much investment China is dumping into clean energy compared to the United States. Yes, we are severely lagging in the renewable sector, and yes, China is poised to eat our ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC A Lesser Evil? It's time for a round of "good news, bad news". The good news is that some U.S. utilities with aging coal plants are looking at the costs of installing anti-pollution equipment on them and at the future cost of carbon regulations (the details are uncertain right now, but at some point it's ...
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Photos: Wikipedia, Public domain. Investing Now for a Better Future In a speech at the National Press Club, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the case for more R&D in the U.S., especially in the energy sector ("the 2010 federal budget is $3.6 trillion, of which 0.14 percent went for research and development related to energy"). Dr. Chu explains ...
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Visualizing What is Invisible to Most of Us One of the problems with burning coal is that most people never ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: The Story of Coal (Video)
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Photo: Flickr , CC The Washington Post has a nice - if a bit breathless - profile of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. It shows how this man is infusing new life into a department that was mostly directed by people without much scientific or technical knowledge in the past (Dr. Chu is a Nobel-winning physicist, while the previous 11 ...
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"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
