Topic: Electricity Generation

Power to the People

AES is big, rich - and unlike any company you've ever seen. It builds power plants by handing power to workers on the front lines. Its radical business model has worked wonders in the United States. Can it also work in Hungary, China, and Brazil?READ MORE›

Tech Watch: Nukes In Your Yard and Fuel Cells In Your Pocket

Two companies are doing two very different things to address the energy problem in America. How about a mini-reactor giving your neighborhood nuclear power? Or would you like thin fuel cell chips to give your gadgets juice?READ MORE›

The Unlikely Key to Clean Coal: Human Blood?

Clean coal is the most elusive of green energy technologies--so elusive that nobody is sure if it's even possible. A New Jersey-based startup called Carbozyme not only thinks it is, the company also believes that human blood holds ...READ MORE›

What It Takes for a Career to Emerge

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 MORE›

The Solar Industry Gains Ground

At a time of economic pain and planetary peril, a renewable global powerhouse takes shape. Just when we need it most.READ MORE›

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Power Comes From Coordination

I’ve interviewed hundreds of business outthinkers, and one of the most common patterns of success is “coordinate the uncoordinated.” We’ve seen this work for companies like Credit Justice Services, an ethonomic credit ...READ MORE›

SNEC PV Power Expo/Photovoltaic Power Generation Expo 2009 Booth/standfitting Contractor YoHo Expo CHINA

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 ...READ MORE›

Wind Turbines: A Hazard to Your Health?

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 MORE›

Radiation on the High Seas: First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Due in 2012

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 MORE›

Do an Hour on the Lifecycle

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 MORE›

Scottish Power Station To Be Fueled By a Few Drams

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 MORE›

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis

Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ MORE›

Wave-Treader Clings to Offshore Turbine For More Eco-Power

Offshore wind turbines are a must-have if the world is to reduce its dependence on non-renewable energy resources--in one fell swoop they obliterate the "not in my back yard" problem land-based turbines suffer. And with the addition ...READ MORE›

Flower Power: World's First Hybrid Solar-Gas Turbine Turning on Soon

The world's first solar hybrid power plant is set to open on June 24 at Kibbutz Samar outside Eilat in southern Israel. When operating at full capacity, the flower-like AORA plant will supply 100 kilowatts of electric ...READ MORE›

6 Ways for Obama to Green Public Housing

Yesterday in Denver, members of the Obama administration outlined how $4 billion will be spent to green the nation's public housing projects. $500 million will be spent on training workers to do the retrofitting work, and the rest ...READ MORE›

Northern Power Systems Turns Wind Energy into an Educational Experience

Northern Power Systems unveiled a community wind power package for schools earlier this week at WINDPOWER 2009 featuring a turbine meant for school use and an accompanying educational package. As part of the package, schools ...READ MORE›

The rise in wind energy usage in INDIA

As the demand for power in India continues to rise, this country is already seeking out alternative power sources. Although fossil fuels continue to be in high demand in this country, the use of wind energy in India is on the rise, ...READ MORE›

Study Attempts to Deflate Overblown Wind Turbine Syndrome Claims

So-called Wind Turbine Syndrome--a series of health problems caused by the low-frequency sound of wind turbines--is probably just psychological, according to a study from the American Wind Energy Association. And that means past ...READ MORE›

Green Power

Thanks to soaring fuel prices, lots of creative energy is being applied to alternative energy. The time may finally have come for these three champions of on-the-verge technologies.READ MORE›

Wind Turbine Blades Could Cause Planes to Disappear From Radar

There are reasons to be wary of wind turbines--they're dangerous to transport, emit unpleasant noises, and have the nasty habit of killing birds and bats that come crashing into them. But we never thought that turbine projects could be considered a threat to the militaryREAD MORE›

Jim Gordon May Have an Answer to our Energy Problems

An alternative to oil? Check. Completely green? Check. Economical? Check. So why has the entrepreneur been sued, pilloried, and lampooned?READ MORE›

Power Plant Waste Could Clean Up Oil From BP Disaster

After over 100 days, the BP oil leak finally appears to be plugged. But while the White House claims that the vast majority of oil has evaporated or been cleaned up with burning, oil skimmers, and dispersants, there is still plenty ...READ MORE›

Creating Longer Lasting Wind Turbines

If you want to know what's the hold up with realizing all these great ideas for green technology that you see, you might look to a paraphrase of an old saw: It's the economics, stupid. When deciding whether it makes sense to install ...READ MORE›

EPA's Updated Sulfur Dioxide Standards Will Cost Coal Plants and Save Lives

Asthmatics, rejoice: You'll soon be able to breathe easy. The Environmental Protection Agency updated its sulfur dioxide emissions standards this week for the first time in almost 40 years--a move that could prevent 54,000 asthma ...READ MORE›

Attention, Cities: You Can Sell Your Excess Wastewater to Nuclear Power Plants

The problem: Five Arizona cities--Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, and Tempe--are facing severe cash shortages. The solution: selling billions of gallons of wastewater to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in a move that ...READ MORE›