21st Century Essential Guide to the Bush Advanced Energy Initiative, Ending Dependence on Foreign Oil - Coal, FutureGen, Solar, Wind, Ethanol, Biodiesel, Switchgrass (DVD-ROM)
My debate with Stephen Gloor, an Australian pro-renewables engineer, seems finally to be winding down. I have been very ably assisted by Bill Hannahan, Rod Adams, and Nathan Wilson. This morning I wrote the following comment: Stephen, you have in our discussion nicely illustrated the case against renewables, while offering your defense of renewable power systems. When confronted with the limitations...
JPL/NASA News Feature Nov 19, 2009 Cassini's Big Sky - The View from the Center of Our Solar System The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm'feature=2370 http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=lkIUK7PPLdKUKlL&s=dlLQI8PWImL0KfPWLvE&m=koIOJPNrEbJQG When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned...
Energy from ocean waves seems like the ultimate in renewable fuel, yet research lags behind studies of solar and wind power. Research now underway is based on ocean buoy generators. As ocean swells hit the buoy, electrical coils create electricity.
Emperor Penguins / Photo by lin padgham Bird and birding news A study of the fossil record argues that there were six genera and nine species of moas (much lower than other estimates) and that the North and South Islands of New Zealand have been geographically isolated for 20-30 million years. The Puerto Rican Nightjar's range is much than previously estimated ; in all this species has 1,400-2,000...
Brian Wang has a very interesting post based on economic projections by Rio Tinto , the international mining outfit. Rio Tinto clearly wants to know about future metal demands in the global economy. Of course this is important for Rio Tinto to know since it takes both time and a lot of capital to develop a new mine, and an accurate future projections is a way to control investment risks. Rio Tinto's...
There’s an old saying that goes, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” While it might be true that college does cost, there are some cheaper options out there. And more of those options are including solar and wind degrees from the less expensive community college route. This article from CNN Money says [...]
Denmark: The Climate Debt Agents are Coming On their website, the mentees-turned-debt-agents explain: “We want a world with climate justice and global justice. In order to get that the attitude of decision makers has to be changed so that they recognize and realize to pay off their climate debt.” Rush Interviews Governor Sarah Palin RUSH: Do you believe at all or some or a lot in the modern-day...
Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States - New Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Institute report. " Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race by Out-Investing the United States ," a major new report released today by the Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and...
by Todd Woody Photo courtesy OZinOH via Flickr California’s ambitious goal of obtaining a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 has spawned a green energy boom with thousands of megawatts of solar, wind, and biomass power plants planned for ... the middle of nowhere. And therein lies the elephant in the green room: transmission. Connecting solar farms and geothermal plants in...
by Grist Al FrankenSen. Al Franken wrote the following letter to a Grist reader in early November, expressing support for “comprehensive energy legislation” and a “national energy plan that keeps our country moving down a path to a homegrown economy with more jobs, more innovation, and more opportunities for investment.” The senator has been concerned about the possible loss...
1. The official price tag for Georgia Power's share of two new reactors at Plant Vogtle is $1.5 billion lower than when the company requested permission to build them, according to testimony Tuesday in front of the Georgia Public Service Commission. Projected construction costs dropped, Mr. Burleson said, because the company is avoiding some interest by charging its customers for the reactors before...
The influence of the Sun is felt well beyond the orbits of the planets. The solar wind is a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun that carves a … [Read more]
GWS Technologies Announces Development of a 7 Megawatt Solar Farm in Arizona SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:GWSC), an alternative energy company developing and marketing solar and wind-powered renewable energy products and solutions, announced today that it is working with Dominion [...]
"... then yonder sun strings these worlds to himself on a thread. Now that thread is the same as the [solar] wind; and that wind is the same as this Vikarnî: thus when he lays down the latter, then yonder sun strings to himself these worlds on a thread." -- Yajnavalkya, gymnosophist, Satapatha Brahmana , 1st millenium B.C. "Most people -- all, in fact, who regard the whole heaven...
With a new 3D-model for energy simulation scientists from Bochum and Huntsville, USA, are studying the 'physical mystery' of the Voyager spacecraft. Over 30 years ago the spacecraft detected particles in solar wind which were 'hotter' than they should have been according to the existing theory expounded by the mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov in 1941. The Bochum plasma physicists Prof. Padma Kant Shukla...
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