Tag: Clean Energy - Page 6
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Anti-Nuclear Protest Uses Bikes, Boats and a Mock Evacuation of NYC (Photos)
At 7:45 yesterday morning, a group of cyclists rode from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Grand Central Terminal. They were activists, wearing white jumpsuits painted with anti-nuclear slogans and pinwheels
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Wind Turbines Today Produce 300X the Power as Those Made 15 Years Ago
Wind power technology -- like solar, hydro, even nuclear -- is behind the times. As this report from the New York Times notes, "experts say that vast improvements in wind technology still lie ahead -- which makes
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Historic Gdansk Shipyard To Be Heart Of Another Polish Revolution -- This One In Wind Power
In 1980, some 17,000 ship builders went on strike in Poland's Gdansk Shipyard, winning historic recognition that helped lead to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and eventually catapulting
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China is Kicking Our A@$ in Clean Energy: The Infographic
These days, I typically try to avoid proliferating the "China is kicking our ass in clean energy" mantra, if only because nobody seems to care -- regardless of how much Tom Friedman wants us to. (For the record,
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Mayor Bloomberg Donates $50 Million To Sierra Club for Anti-Coal Campaign
New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving the Sierra Club a substantial gift -- $50 million to put toward battling coal-fired power plants across the nation. The Washington Post reports that the donation will be
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Two Reasons Why "Clean Coal" Has Moved Off Stage
There are two main reasons clean coal has moved offstage and they have little to do with engineering feasibility or environmental impact potential.
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Infinite Clean Energy Just Decades Away? Plans Laid for the First Fusion Reactor
Ah, nuclear fusion--that near-mythical idea that's only mentioned in whispers; that has long seemed doomed to linger on the sidelines of the "serious" energy debate.
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GOP's Accomplishments This Year: Styrofoam Cups, Little Else
Politico, the right-leaning DC newspaper, has an interesting synopsis of the GOP's accomplishments in the energy and environment arena thus far this year. And it's interesting primarily because those accomplishments are
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How Just 3% of Denmark's Trash Ends Up in a Landfill (Video)
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ... Photo courtesy of
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The Stirling Biomass Gassification Engine in Action (Video)
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ...Image courtesy of
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A Giant, Man-Made Island Could Act as a Battery for Wind Power
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ... Images courtesy of
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It's Time to Denmark-ify Our Cities: A Copenhagen Case Study
If we're going to consider trying to Denmark-ify societies around the world, perhaps the first thing we should do is make sure that people would actually want to live in those societies. So let's take a
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What's Next in Wind Power Tech (Video)
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ...Photo credit: jiazi via
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New York Passes Historic Green Jobs Financing Law
At quarter to midnight on June 22, the New York State legislature passed the "Power NY Act," a long-sought complement to the "Green Jobs/Green NY" law that passed in 2009.
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Behold: The World's First 24/7 Solar Plant is Up and Running (Video)
Earlier this week, I spoke with Kevin Smith, the CEO of Solar Reserve, about the vast potential of concentrated solar power. The grand advantage of solar thermal is that it can serve as baseload power -- CSP can store energy, often
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Concentrated Solar Power 101: Where the Technology Stands Today
Interview with Kevin B. Smith, CEO of Solar Reserve Concentrated solar power, often referred to as solar thermal, is one of the most promising renewable technologies we have going. Solar thermal plants harness energy from the sun in much the way
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$800 Million Fund for Large-Scale Solar Power Announced
CleanPath is a new renewable energy investment firm that made some waves at this year's Renewable Energy Finance Forum (a major annual conference in New York that, true to its name, pairs clean energy companies and financiers). The firm announced the
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Incoming: A Glut of "Natural Gas is Green" Nonsense
It has begun. Okay, so it began a while ago, ever since natural gas companies first got wind of the news that their product produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the world's other favorite fossil fuels.
