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 via luisme1985 The Clean Tech Group let loose news that investments in clean technology took a bit of a dive this quarter. Well, not a bit of a dive - a big fat swan dive. Investments are down 41% from last quarter, and down 48% from this time last year. ... Read more here: Clean Tech Investments Take a ...
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photo: Jacob Davies via flickr Though the recession has certainly put a damper on new large renewable energy projects, as well as derailing some in development, new plans are being announced (just not on the scale which that had been nine months ago). Case in point, Duke Energy 's latest wind farm in Cheyenne, Wyoming:... Here is the original ...
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photo: BBC News A couple years ago TreeHugger highlighted the efforts of the island of El Hierro (one of the smaller of the Canary Islands , with a population of about 10,000) to make the switch over to generating all of its power from renewable energy sources. For an update on this interesting project, the BBC is running a ...
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Could this actually be a carbon-neutral fossil fuel source? New Scientist is reporting on research presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society which examines whether methane could be extracted from what looks like regular ice, and at the same time sequester carbon dioxide. The regular looking ice they are talking about is actually clathrate hydrate , ...
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In my post Dear Deniers and Cranks: Earth Hour Made a Difference , I said "Gas and coal fired plants dial up and down all the time to adjust for peak load, so an event like Earth Hour is actually turning down the dirtiest fossil fuel burners, taking it right off the top." Many commenters disagreed, saying "Usage may ...
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Here comes that "smart metering" thing again. With politicians and TreeHugger publicly praising "smart meters;" and, with GE networking a huge number of them in Houston Texas, it's clear the day will soon come for retiring our 'dumb meters'. Ready. Set. GE Digital Energy reports it is under contract with Houston Texas electric power utility CenterPoint Energy, Inc. to ...
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photo: Lee Coursey via flickr Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: ... Excerpt from: Venice to Get Half of Its Electricity From Algae
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The sound's a little low, but check out this video from the POET Energy ribbon-cutting ceremony for some background on the EPA and promotion of landfill gas use. I've always found it ironic that facilities which make biofuels (and, to be fair, other renewable energy products as well) use a whole bunch of non-renewable energy to run them and ...
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Photo via Flickr First President Obama snatched up Van Jones from Green for All to be Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the Council for Environmental Quality. And now he's hired Alliance for Climate Protection CEO Cathy Zoi to serve as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy in the Department of Energy, pending her ...
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Photos via Greenbird Out in the Nevada desert, the stunning Greenbird just shattered the world speed record for a vehicle powered solely by wind . Richard Jenkins, the vehicle's designer and driver, brought the Greenbird up to speeds of 126.1 mph on a desert cruise yesterday. He sailed past the previous record of 116 mph, and into history with ...
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The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Here is the original: Super Efficient Water Heater is First New Product to Roll Off GE ...
The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Read more here: GE's New Hybrid Water Heater is Super Efficient—and Manufactured in America
