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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you believe Shai Agassi, we’ve been looking at the concept of the electric car all wrong; it isn’t just a product-it’s a service. That’s the thinking underpinning the young IsraeliAmerican entrepreneur’s fledgling company, Project Better Place, and it’s catching on. Last month the California-based start-up announced a US$42.3-million project with Danish energy firm DONG [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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