15
May
2008
Posted by admin as Solar, Wind Power
States eager to promote renewable energy are increasingly passing laws that allow homeowners to overcome local opposition to home solar panels and wind turbines.
Since 2005, eight states — including four last year — have enacted laws to abolish stringent rules imposed by some homeowners associations and local agencies on residents who want to power their [...]
09
May
2008
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
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 [...]