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Wind Power Facts: Emissions Through the Lifecycle

January 9, 2012

A recent scholarly paper decided to tackle the problem of the emissions of wind power, wishing to quantify the actual emissions so as to make accurate comparisons between wind power and other sources of electrical power generations.
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Wind Powered Energy Going Far Beyond The Traditional Turbine

January 5, 2012

Image by Charles Cook / Creative Commons With Google recently investing a hundred million dollars into the world’s largest wind farm, alternative energies continue to be a hot topic amongst environmentalists, businesses, corporations, governments…

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Eco-Board BillBoards Uses Solar and Wind Power

November 15, 2011

While the name is misleadingly old fashioned, bringing to mind a piece of wood and some paint advertising something quaint like a garage door repair service or an antique store, modern billboards do a lot more than that – which includes using a lot more energy than a piece of wood.

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Increase Wind Power with Your Mouse

November 9, 2011

A good, old friend of sustainablog and our media network, Jan van Voorst, started a new project not long ago where you support green organizations or actions by sharing posts on social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Google+). Jeff covered the new project in August right after it got started. It seems to be [...]

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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)

October 21, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we’ve talked about traveling on a floating cloud.

We also have a building in Milan t…

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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)

October 20, 2011

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry’s attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I’d simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have …

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German Trains To Run on 100% Renewables

October 14, 2011

Image credit: Ingy The Wingy, used under Creative Commons license.

During our live chat with Solarcentury’s Jeremy Leggett yesterday, we started out by discussing the high profile solar railway bridge his company is helping install in central London …

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How To Store Wind Power: Pump It Into A Big Underwater Balloon

October 13, 2011

Testing Hydrostor model, University of Windsor

Tyler Hamilton recently wrote Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy, and while the book may be out, he keeps looking for those crazy ideas that might change ever…

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

October 12, 2011

Image credit: ATR

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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Solar & Wind Could Power All Of US By 2026

October 11, 2011

Photo: david.nikonvscanon, Flickr, CC BY

The American public’s relationship with clean energy is complicated: Polls consistently show that we overwhelmingly want more of it. The majority of Americans want the government to invest in clean power resea…

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