Tag: Renewable Energy - Page 10
-
Minnesota's Energy Could be 100% Renewable At No Extra Cost
A new report suggests that Minnesota has all the solar and wind energy it needs to go 100% renewable. But it must invest in energy efficiency to do it.
-
Best of Green Readers' Choice: Energy
Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.
-
10,000 Year, Subterranean Clock Will Transform Our View of Time and Technology
A team of engineers, philosophers and musicians is creating a unique, 200ft time piece that will keep ticking for 10,000 years.
-
World Wind Power Climbs to New Record in 2011
With its long list of attractive attributes—widespread and abundant, quick to scale, climate-benign, and zero fuel cost—wind power is driving the transition to a new energy economy.
-
DC Considers Community "Solar Gardens" and Shared Solar Arrays
Live in a condo but want to go solar? New legislation in DC aims to make sharing solar arrays a real possibility.
-
French Web Site Rewards Green Actions with Presents (Video)
Cite Green is a French web site that rewards users' green actions with points, redeemable for gifts.
-
Solar-Powered Shipping Container Architecture That Actually Makes Sense
A Nigerian start-up is offering mobile, solar-powered buildings made from shipping containers for a variety of uses - from marketing to saving the world.
-
Does Storing Solar Power's Electricity as Hot Water Make Sense?
One UK company is offering "24 hour solar" by storing solar-generated electricity as hot water. But does it really make sense?
-
How to Build Wind Turbine Blades Using Duct Tape
A backyard tinkerer shows us how to build wind turbine blades out of duct tape.
-
Britain's First Solar Town? The Journey Continues
From rooftop panels to a large solar farm, one town is aiming to go 100% renewable. They're not forgetting conservation either.
-
Makani Airborne Wind Turbine Gets $3 Million Energy Department Grant
An airborne wind turbine that uses 90% less mass than conventional wind turbines picks up $3 million in funding from the Energy Department's ARPA-E program.
-
Turning Water Into Electricity, Students Into Renewable Energy Experts
A hydropower turbine has the potential to not only create energy, but has also sparked the creation of both a renewable energy company and a renewable energy education program in Maine.
-
Energy News: Greenpeace Ordered Away From Shell, Where's The Cheapest Gas In The World, More
Plus, the US Army wants billions of dollars of renewable electricity, osmotic power using wastewater and not salt water, and the USGS' take on fracking's potential impact on New York State's water supply (not good).
-
How Airports Are Embracing Solar Power
Gatwick Airport has just installed a modest solar array, with bigger things to follow. Here's Why It Matters.
-
Clean Energy Standard Would Power U.S. With 84% Low Carbon Energy by 2035
Senator Jeff Bingaman floats legislation that would require utilities to produce 84% of their power from low carbon sources by 2035.
-
Slowing Global Warming This Century Requires Low Carbon Energy Not Natural Gas
"Delaying rollouts of low-carbon-emission energy technologies risks even greater environmental harm in the second half of this century and beyond."
-
Floating Solar Trackers Boost Efficiency and Slash Costs
A system of floating solar trackers, designed for citing in disused quarries and artifical water bodies, costs 20% less than an equivalent land-based system.
-
Apple's New Data Center Touts Massive 20MW Solar Array & Biogas Fuel Cell
Details emerge of Apples massive investment in clean energy at an NC data center.
