Tag: Energy
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Hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws
It's true those teeny wind turbines attached to big buildings always look...useless. So Stockholm architects tried to come up with better energy collectors for skyscrapers.
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Epic debate: Amory Lovins vs. Charles C. Mann on the future of oil
Over the past few weeks, The Atlantic has been host to a public debate between Charles C. Mann and Amory B. Lovins about the future of oil and renewable energy and whether we'll see a decline in petroleum use any time soon.
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Is Obama the "environmental President?" Yes or no, he can still win climate fight
Obama's climate record has been "a runaway success", writes Jonathan Chait. David Roberts doesn't disagree, but puts the claim in context.
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Greenwash Watch: Is this good design or egregious greenwrapping?
Does covering a coal-fired power plant with topiary make it any greener?
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Forget the Passive House, the JF Kit House keeps you active and fit.
Get a workout while you work and live, in a house that would exhaust Jane Fonda herself.
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Investments in clean energy could reach $630 billion by 2030 (but probably more)
“Three years ago, we thought wind and solar would be cheap as chips, and they’ve even gone below that.”
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Oslo runs out of garbage, imports it from rest of the world
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a strange garbage problem. Too much? No, not enough.
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Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand
Lithium's not rare, but it looks like it's about to become even less so. This deposite could make the US lithium-independent, and maybe even an exporter of the useful metal.
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America now has more solar energy workers than coal miners
The Solar Foundation, which has been releasing reports for a few years on the state of the solar industry in the U.S., has just launched a very cool interactive map that breaks the stats down state by state.
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Cool NREL maps show the huge geothermal power potential of the U.S.
Geothermal is a stable & plentiful source of clean energy available all around the world, including in the United States (especially in the West). But that industry is still in its infancy and very little of that resource's potential is being tapped.
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Solar power accounted for 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March 2013
According to the latest data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), March 2013 was a very special month for the U.S. power grid. For the first time ever, all of the new capacity added came from solar power.
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Tribal Activist's Clean-Energy Quest
A mother's fight to protect her children and her tribe
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In 2011, China built as many coal plants as there are in Texas and Ohio combined
Solar and wind are growing fast - by 42% and 19% respectively during the past year - but coal has a much larger installed base, so even much lower growth represents a huge number of new dirty power plants that will pollute for decades to come.
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Smart storage algorithms could cut data-center energy use by 20-50%
Now that digital video is ubiquitous, there are vast oceans of data being stored in gigantic data centers around the world. To ensure the accessibility and integrity of all that data, multiple copies of the files are being held, sometimes within the same
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Monday links of stuff you should know
Go read these things.
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Health warning labels proposed for gas pump nozzles
It works for cigarettes, why not for fossil fuels?
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U.S. had 45,100 wind turbines at the end of 2012, a growth of 28% over 2011
Wind power in the U.S. is doing well, and the country has only just begun to tap its massive potential (especially offshore).
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Would you run over energy-harvesting tiles in a marathon?
I don't get energy harvesting. When you drive over them, they steal your gas. When you walk, they steal your food. In a marathon, they steal your time.
