Tag: Nevada - Page 2
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Conserving Water Lowers Greenhouse Gas Footprint - Significantly
This headline seems confusing but is easily explained. Water did not magically show up at your shower on the 31'st floor. It was pushed up to your bareness by a series of massive electric
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Water Sucking Solar Farms Breed Water Wars
If you thought there were water wars brewing before, just wait. The sun is often
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Green Machine Hooked Up to Geothermal Heat Source Makes Electricity Almost Free
Electratherm, inventor of the Green Machine that takes low grade waste heat and turns it into electricity, has announced its first geothermal installation, hooking up the little wonders to the 220°F groundwater at the Florida Canyon Mine in northern
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Eco-Rally to Transverse America
Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start
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Dear Harry Reid, Please Stop Protecting a Destructive 130-Year-Old Mining Law
Photo via Public Radio Dear Sen. Harry Reid, As the Senate Majority Leader you've generally been a pretty green leader--you've got a high ranking from the League of Conservation Voters, you've done some good stuff in working on the smart grid, and I
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Adrian Grenier and the Honey Brothers Talk Green Living at the Wanderlust Festival
In a recent interview with Adrian Grenier and Andrew Vladeck of the Honey Brothers, the two musicians discussed what green means to them and the band as a whole. Grenier talked about the importance of community in the green movement, as well as
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Gigantic Solar Plants in Nevada Slated for Fast Tracking
Image credit: NextLight Solar 407MW Solar PV Plants to be Followed by Many More The idea of utilizing deserts to generate solar power is an attractive one. Of course, they would come with their own ecological price, but some claim that solar power
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WanderLust Festival Unites Sustainability With Simplicity in Tahoe
Dreamers, yogis, greens, lovers of the outdoors and fans of indie, alternative music, rejoice! The Wanderlust Festival is coming to town. Bringing with it some of the hottest names in music and some of the most experienced yogis around to offer a
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Bureau of Land Management to Designate Solar Power Fast Track Areas in Six Western States
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar power permitting offices and
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Desert Rock New Mexico, Coal-Fired Power Plant Permit Withdrawn By USEPA
Another pro-coal Bush environmental decision was reversed this week. Reuters reports that the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew the air permit,
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48 Megawatt Solar Power Plant Expansion in Nevada Will Be (Maybe) Nation's Largest
Some good news coming from the solar power sector: First Solar has announced that it will be building onto an existing Boulder City, Nevada solar power plant to transform it into what it claims will be the largest solar PV plant in
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New Google Earth Layer Shows What US Lands Should Be Off-Limits to Renewable Energy Development
As Senator Feinstein's recent talk about making 500,000 acres of the Mojave desert off-limits to renewable energy development, on the conservation grounds, goes to show, conflicts over siting large projects is no less likely just because the project is
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Goodbye, Yucca Mountain: Obama's Budget Cuts Nuclear Storage Plans
The big ol' budget Obama dropped off last week has funding for many, many things, but evidently none of them are nuclear repositories. Yes indeed, under Obama's proposed budget, we'd be bidding adieu to the notorious Yucca Mountain—the
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Solar Power System in Nevada Desert Reaches Grid Parity
At least according to the calculations of one analyst, a 12.5 MW solar power system installed by First Solar for Sempra Generation produces electricity at a lower cost,
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12,100 Megawatts of Geothermal Power by 2025: Department of Interior Opens Up Lands For Leasing
Geothermal energy finally seems to be getting the attention it deserves. While it still is a small percentage of most nation’s energy mix (read: everybody but Iceland), the potential of geothermal in some places is enormous. Towards
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Las Vegas Hummer Dealership Switches to SMART Cars and Vespa Scooters
Hummer Excessive Even for Bling City Dan Towbin's Hummer dealership in Las Vegas is one of the biggest in the USA. It was even featured in the "King of Cars" documentary on A&E.; But the time they are a-changin', and the Vegas Hummer dealership will
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Six New Solar Power Plant Plans Pulverize Old Records
Back in the beginning of the summer we heard about plans to develop what at the time would have been world's largest thin-film solar PV plant, a 10 megawatt facility outside of Las Vegas. Around the same time a 25 megawatt solar PV plant in Florida
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Texas Coal Wars Opens Next Week
Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars, documents how a group of citizens stood up to the proposed development of 19-coal-fired power plants in central and east Texas. Mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups,
