alternative energy

Are Carbon Offsets Irrelevant? Maybe They Always Were…

October 12, 2011

Image credit: Land Rover Our Planet, used under Creative Commons license.

When I wrote about the new UK Carbon Reporting Framework which connects potential project funders with CO2-cutting initiatives, I noted that they were not calling it offsets. I…

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Hybrid Wind-Solar System to Provide More Constant, Reliable Clean Energy

October 12, 2011

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One of the most common criticisms you hear from clean energy naysayers is that renewables suffer from too much variability. But from the world’s first 24/7 solar power plant to large-scale energy storage, that problem is now being t…

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The U.S. Now Uses More Corn for Fuel Than Feed!

October 11, 2011

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Madness! And I don’t mean the British band…
The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost. Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up. Only abo…

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Euro Disney to Heat Paris Park By Capturing Computer Heat

October 11, 2011

My two favorite companies to snark on for their lame green efforts are Mattel (Barbie) and Disney. The latest efforts from Disney are occurring abroad. I can’t even comprehend Disneyland Paris. Tacky American culture in the City of Light. Arrgh! Euro Disney plans to use an innovative idea for heating parts of the park. Capturing [...]

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Virgin Atlantic To Debut New Green Aviation Fuel In 2-3 Years & It’s Not A Biofuel

October 11, 2011

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Considering how energy-intensive it is, aviation is really the hard nut to crack in greening transportation, but Virgin Atlantic says it has a way to do it–and, importantly, without using biofuels. As The Independent reports…

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1 Gigawatt New England Offshore Wind Farm Inches Forward – Production Could Begin in 2016

October 11, 2011

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A massive new offshore wind power project, to be located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has taken a procedural step forward. Plans for the 1 GW Deepwater Wind Energy Center, being developed by Deepwater Wind, have officia…

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Near Net Zero Reached at Frito-Lay Plant

October 8, 2011

Five solar installations produce 10 million kilowatt-hours of power. Photos from Frito-Lay

If only more existing buildings would go “net zero”. The Empire State Building has saved 40% in energy costs with a major retrofit. Now a Frito-Lay facility, a…

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Elon Musk Answers Reddit’s Questions on Everything

October 7, 2011

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CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Chairman of SolarCity, and Tony Stark Model
Too few entrepreneurs dream big. Most would like to create a popular iPhone app rather than aim high. But not Elon Musk. The co-founder of Paypa…

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Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project (You Can Help Too!)

October 5, 2011

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Finding the Organic Solar Needle in the Molecule Haystack
You don’t have to look into a crystal ball to see that solar power has a bright future. But before it can start to really take over a large fraction of our civilization’s el…

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