BYLewis Perkins Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Yesterday (September 22), President Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit with a speech focused on how the United States is "determined" to combat Climate Change. While the Waxman-Markey bill has been held up in the ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Jun 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Geothermal power plants are the ugly ducklings of the energy world; they're not as big or flashy as wind and solar plants, and most of their energy-producing magic happens underground. But a new $25 million geothermal plant being ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Wed May 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM
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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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»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Thu Oct 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM
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»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 100 Fri Feb 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Only one week after unveiling three plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) charging stations in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the submission of a permit application to bring renewable ocean energy off the city's ...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»
The country that unleashed ABBA, IKEA and H&M on the world is gearing up to impress us once again--this time with Europe's largest wind farm. Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB wants to build 1,101 wind turbines in the northern ...READ»
I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 80 Thu Oct 29, 2009 at 3:19 PM
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»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 78 Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Every renewable energy source has its downside--nuclear power uses radioactive material, wind turbines generate noise complaints, solar production can leach chemicals into water supplies, and geothermal projects...cause earthquakes?READ»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 77 Fri Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM
A power generator fueled by whiskey. Strictly speaking, the upcoming power station to be built in Scotland will be powered by by-products from the whiskey distillation process, rather than the golden drinkable alcohol itself. Still, ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 75 Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Amidst news of massive solar and wind power plants comes word of a small but significant achievement--the world's first osmotic power plant. Statkraft's $7 million plant, located in Tofte, Norway, only produces enough energy to run ...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»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 68 Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM
What do you think of when you hear the phrase "solar power"? Chances are, you don't picture a Chevron oil field. Yet that's exactly where BrightSource Energy wants to put a 29-megawatt solar thermal plant by the end of 2010. As oil ...READ»
Nuclear power is one of the most controversial energy-generating methods, mainly because of safety and terrorism concerns. But that hasn't stopped the United Industrial Corporation, a Russian manufacturer, from pressing forward with ...READ»
BYSophie Wang Relevancy Score: 65 Mon Dec 1, 2008 at 8:19 PM
If your company come China for SNEC PV Power Expo,Photovoltaic Power Generation in Shanghai,please contact YoHo Expo,YoHo Expo offers professional booth/stand design,construction/installation service for SNEC PV Power Expo.Following ...READ»
BYAriel Schwartz Relevancy Score: 63 Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Last year, the US Department of Energy landed in the news when it set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of all light that hits it into solar energy using concentrated ...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»
BYKit Eaton Relevancy Score: 60 Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 7:21 AM
Hydroelectric power has always been a pretty "green" way to generate electricty, simply interrupting the natural hydrological cycle to borrow some of its potential energy to convert to electrical power. Green, that is apart from the ...READ»
BYTerry Tamminen Relevancy Score: 59 Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I have a friend who swears by an exercise machine called the Lifecycle. He grinds and sweats an hour a day on that thing. Lots of other people do too, or so I’m told (I try to walk the dog three times a week and perform regular leg ...READ»
BYScott Kirsner Relevancy Score: 58 Tue Nov 9, 2004 at 9:57 AM
One of the most controversial development projects in New England right now is Cape Wind, a windmill farm that has been proposed for the waters of Nantucket Sound in between Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 58 Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Almost 2500 people were planning to risk arrest last week outside the Capitol Power Plant, the heavily symbolic coal-burning plant that provides juice to Congress. Only...soon it won't be burning coal anymore. Awkward!
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