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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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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»

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 Expo.Following ...READ»

Hydroelectric Power Goes Greener, With In-River Turbine

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

EarthTronics' Home Wind Turbine Coming to Ace Hardware This Fall

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»

Can Wind Power a Rural Renaissance?

Jon Bergstrom, a cotton and hay farmer in Sweetwater, Texas (population 10,472), looks outside his window every day and feels grateful. The giant white towers spinning on the near horizon have everything to do with it. Sweetwater is ...READ»

Anti-Coal Heroes Win An Awkwardly Timed Victory

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! Speaker ...READ»

Synthetic Tree Captures Carbon 1,000 Times Faster Than Real Trees

Sure, trees are nice to look at, but they're also carbon-collecting powerhouses. Now Klaus Lackner, a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, is developing a synthetic tree that can collect carbon approximately 1,000 times ...READ»

How to Fix... Wind Energy

If you want to see which way the wind is blowing in alternative energy these days, check out Europe. More specifically, look five miles off the Irish coast, in the Saint Georges Channel between Ireland and England. That's where a ...READ»