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09
May
2008
New Wind Turbine Design Increases Efficiency 4 fold
Posted by admin as Wind Power
naturalexistence.com, by Adam Beazley. A company called FlowDesign has taken a page from the aeronautical engineering field and designed a type of “Jet Engine” wind turbine. These new wind turbines are said to be able to produce four times more electricity than typical wind turbines. Not only that, but because of their design, they can [...]
09
May
2008
“Solar thermal is ready to go for prime time”
Posted by admin as Solar
Large solar thermal power plants, which use the sun’s heat to generate electricity, could generate 715,000 megawatts of electricity in Nevada without greenhouse gases that lead to global warming, an advocacy group said Thursday in a new report.
Benjamin Schreiber, staff attorney for Environment America, the group that made the report, ranked solar power considerations high [...]
04
May
2008
Cheap, reliable solar power - dream or reality?
Posted by admin as Solar
Gene Cattaneo, a Las Vegas renewable-energy entrepreneur, believed solar power’s day was coming as surely as the sun would rise the next day.
Cattaneo called himself Mr. Solar, but he didn’t see his dream come true. A neighbor shot and killed Cattaneo in 2001 during an argument over the neighbor’s yard sales.
Had Mr. Solar only lived [...]
04
May
2008
Are there too many alternative energy alternatives?
Posted by admin as Saving Money
HAVING forked out a ridiculous EUR680 on a fill of home-heating oil recently I spent a whole day last week at an alternative energy exhibition.
I could have been at home with a roaring fire, a DVD and a tub of Ben and Jerry’s but the cost of the oil was killing me.
Like most I’m a [...]
04
May
2008
Your House Powered by the Sun - The Solar Solution
Posted by admin as Solar
It’s time to harness the world’s virtually inexhaustible supply of solar energy and start building a brighter future
We know that relying on coal, oil and natural gas threatens our future with toxic pollution, global climate change and social unrest caused by diminishing fuel supplies. Instead of relying on unsustainable fossil fuels, we must transform our [...]