Posted by admin in Eco, Environment, Green on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
SunEdison to build Europe’s largest solar plant in Italy
SunEdison to build Europe’s largest solar plant in Italy
Eco Factor: Solar power plant to generate up to 72MW of renewable power. SunEdison has announced that the company will be building Europe’s largest solar power plant in Italy. The power plant is expected to be completed by the end of the year in Rovigo, on an area as large as 120 soccer fields. Once...
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Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)
Joos Solar Charger Tested In A Tub of Water In The Shade, Still Charges (Video)
Photo via press release The Joos Solar Charger makes some bold claims. First, the company states that it generates 20 times the charge of other personal solar chargers on the market. There is no data on their website showing exactly what numbers they’re measuring, so we can only assume they’re...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Utilities Poised to Blow It When Smart Grid Rolls Out
Utilities Poised to Blow It When Smart Grid Rolls Out
Photo via F eatheredTar According to new research from IDC Energy Insights, utilities are not even remotely ready for the smart grid particularly when it comes to one vital piece of the puzzle - customer interaction. So far, utilities have been this big, lumbering entity to which you send money every...
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Posted by in Eco, Environment on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Texas Sets New Wind Power Record with 6,272-Megawatt Peak
Texas Sets New Wind Power Record with 6,272-Megawatt Peak
Photo: Public domain For a Little While, %19 of the State’s Electricity Came from Wind Power It looks like the wind is blowing strong these days in Texas. On Sunday Feb. 28th, it broke a wind power electricity generation record with 6,242 megawatts on the ERCOT grid, and that record was broken...
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Posted by admin in Environment on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Waste Management to Add Landfill Plasma Gasification Unit
Waste Management to Add Landfill Plasma Gasification Unit
S4 Energy Solutions, a joint venture formed by Waste Management and InEnTec in May 2009, will build a plasma gasification facility at Waste Management’s Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Ore., that will convert municipal solid waste into clean fuels and renewable energy. Construction of the...
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Posted by in Earth, Eco, Environment on 03 6th, 2010 | No Comments
China’s Changing Economy
In Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, I have presented a plan to dramatically reduce carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. In the push to reduce emissions, all eyes are on China, the world’s most populous country and now also...
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Posted by in Earth, Environment, Green on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Fireflies are Losing the Fight to Street Lights
Fireflies are Losing the Fight to Street Lights
Time-lapse photography shows the chaotic flight patterns of insects under a street lamp Photo via gizmodo For most of human history, when the sun set and night descended it meant that it was time to sleep . But, as our earliest ancestors learned to create fire , they found they could extend their days...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Awesome Biomimicry: Leaf Veins Inspire New Model for Water and Electricity Distribution Networks
Awesome Biomimicry: Leaf Veins Inspire New Model for Water and Electricity Distribution Networks
Lemon leaf with interconnected loops. Photo: RU A team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters about a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in most tree leaves. This is a great example of biomimicry!...
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Ford to Launch 5 New Electric Vehicles by 2013
Ford to Launch 5 New Electric Vehicles by 2013
Photo via Autoblog Green At the 2010 Geneva auto show (from whence I’m reporting ), Ford took the opportunity to announce its plans for moving electric vehicles to market in Europe. Not be outdone by Volkswagen–which announced its EV strategy yesterday–Ford is planning on offering...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Global Warming Hits World’s Women the Hardest — Especially When They Don’t Have Equal Rights
Global Warming Hits World’s Women the Hardest — Especially When They Don’t Have Equal Rights
Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr. It’s already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production , severe storms, and drought, among others,...
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