published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Chuck Coker via flickr TreeHugger has covered all sorts of plans to transform the US's energy mix towards far greater amounts of renewable energy over the coming years, Al Gore's generational challenge to repower America being perhaps the most prominent. Under than plan (really more a visionary proposal) the US would generate 100% of its electricity from renewable ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
In amidst all the academic presentations and statements by high-profile politicians and climate change campaigners, there were a couple of booths set up displaying some interesting products. If you're like me and enjoy playing around with interactive maps and interested in energy issues, then EnergyMap should be right up your alley. While concentrating on Danish companies, it details projects ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Image credit: Libra Rising , Centaur, Art and Myth: a pictorial The last sighting of this beast was during US Congressional testimony, during 2008:- Mythical Hybrid Beast To Battle Climate Change . Recent news indicates a growing interest in co-locating wind turbines and large scale solar thermal plants with fossil-fueled electricity generators. See below for an excerpt from the ...
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published March 10, 2009 and has No Comments
This first photo shows the power lines coming from the power house. You can see the newly cut branches from the Madreado trees have been planted as power poles. Photo via Brian Thomas (Bradley University) With the cost of cement electric power poles and the problem of termites infesting wooden poles, the villages of Honduras had but one obvious ...
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published March 8, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via: Karen 2873 Over the past several years, there has been a rather interesting development of eco-sensitive technology designed to help us humans along with our daily lives by giving us a gentle nudge in the right direction of eco-friendliness. I am talking about such innovation as the Eco-Pedal, the Eco-Switch, and the Aware-Car. If you've ever spent ...
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