As utilities scramble to reach emissions targets with massive renewable energy projects and smart meter rollouts, it's important to remember that community-owned renewable energy is a viable--and sometimes better--alternative. And ...READ»
Harvard is already tops in most green university ratings, and now the school appears to be gunning for the number one spot with a commitment to get over 10% of its power from a wind farm in northern Maine. That's a big chunk of ...READ»
Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas ...READ»
One of the biggest criticisms of on-the-grid renewable energy is its inherent unpredictability--the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, but coal is always there to lend a helping hand. Weather information ...READ»
The Central Park International Airport may have been a hoax, but OceanWorksDevelopment's plan for an offshore airport in San Diego is very real. The proposed airport isn't a cry for publicity--San Diego just doesn't have enough ...READ»
Apps are increasingly targeting homeowners who use green technologies--there's an app to monitor the performance of your rooftop solar panels and the Wind Speed and Wind Meter apps use the iPhone's built-in microphone to capture the ...READ»
Texas is home to the world's biggest wind farm, according to officials at E.ON Climate & Renewables. The wind energy company recently put the finishing touches on its 781.8 megawatt (MW), 627-turbine facility in Roscoe, Texas. ...READ»
The Department of Energy gave a big boost to solar and wind projects across the United States yesterday when it handed out nearly $503 million to companies in an attempt to raise their prospects of receiving outside capital. The ...READ»
Ever wonder how much space we would need to use to power the entire world with solar energy or offshore wind power? So did the good people at the Land Art Generator, who created two infographics that show the amount of surface area ...READ»
As climate change accelerates, scientists keep coming up with increasingly fanciful schemes to fight it. Earlier this month we took a look at a plan to deploy ships that spray climate change-battling clouds, and now comes word from a ...READ»
A warning to wind turbine installers: be careful where you set up shop. People living near wind turbines have long complained of health problems, and now a study from New York pediatrician Dr. Nina Pierpoint attempts to confirm the ...READ»
Move over T. Boone Pickens, your grand Texas wind farm dreams have been overtaken by energy start-up Baryonyx, which has won bids for three land leases--two offshore, and one in the Texas Panhandle--to build data centers in ...READ»
Everyone (well, mostly everyone) is worried about the effects of climate change on global weather patterns. But what if wind power--one of the most prominent clean energy solutions--affects the weather too? According to scientists at ...READ»
Wind power in the U.S. appears to have taken a turn for the worse this week with T. Boone Pickens' announcement that he is scrapping plans to build the world's biggest wind farm in Texas. But according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the wind situation isn't too dire--yet. te9ju5mi2aREAD»
Wind energy might not be the power source of choice for most forward-thinking car makers, but that hasn't stopped Ecotricity founder Dale Vince from working on a wind-powered electric car. Last year, Vince described the car as ...READ»
Small-scale, local power--the microgrid--is a big part of the path to sustainable energy (for more detail, read Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis in the July/August issue). With today's rates and rebates, ...READ»
The phrase "wind power" conjures up images of sweeping plains and large, open spaces. But according to new research from Caldeira and Christina Archer at California State University, Chico, the North American Eastern ...READ»
Cleveland State University professor Majid Rashidi intends to prove that small-scale wind power can be cost-effective on city roofs with a turbine design using the same principle that lets airplanes fly. Rashidi's turbine, in ...READ»
Rooftop wind power won't be limited to wind-filled areas once EarthTronics' Honeywell Wind Turbine is released this fall at ACE Hardware. Earthtronics' 2-kilowatt wind turbine can generate power with wind speeds as low as two miles ...READ»
With all the potential good wind power could do for the carbon economy, one of the objections hindering its implementation is aesthetic; people simply don't want massive turbines dotting the landscape and marring their views. The ...READ»
The world's largest wind farm, dubbed the London Array, has been given the go-ahead after months of doubt caused by Shell pulling out of the project. The project, funded by E.ON, Dong Energy, and Masdar, is back on thanks
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This week, eagle-eyed reporters spotted a big fish in a flood of new patents: Google just won a patent for a sustainably powered, floating data center. It would sit 3 to 7 miles offshore in seas about 200-feet deep, and rely ...READ»
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) launched a Google Earth mash-up map earlier this month to show alternative energy installers where they might run into trouble with legal restrictions or endangered wildlife advocates. ...READ»
At some point recently, a group of world leaders must have gotten together and decided that the best way to save our planet was through prizes. Hence we have the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, the Financial Times Climate Change ...READ»
Wind power may be one of the most important alternative energies in the United States, but it's useless if we don't have transmission lines to transport the energy from wind-rich rural areas in the Midwest to cities with large ...READ»
