Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Farm Futures

Colorado Law Increases Standard for Renewable Energy
Farm Futures
... wind power, geothermal energy, biomass power, small hydropower, recycled electricity from waste heat, and fuel cells powered with hydrogen derived from ...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Earth Hour

www.guardian.co.uk
The fourth annual lights-out event expects 1 billion participants, and counts for the first time international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building and the Burj Khalifa

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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CBC.ca

Federal money needed for PEI hydrogen plan
CBC.ca
(CBC) The PEI government is looking for Ottawa to extend its assistance with a project to use wind power to generate hydrogen to run transit buses in ...
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GM Charges Ahead with Hydrogen
Automobile Magazine
... hydrogen fueling station networks and as well as further developing solutions for extracting hydrogen using renewable energy (ie wind power, etc. ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The "Story of Stuff" People Do "The Story of Bottled Water"...

storyofstuff.org
The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. ...

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Bakersfield Californian

Chevron project tests solar technologies
Bakersfield Californian
Other cutting-edge technologies being tested in the county or proposed here range from biogas to wind power to hydrogen energy. ...
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From pomegranates to Plastiki: How biomimicry helped build the boat
CNN
... including wind turbines, sea turbines, photovoltaic panels and even a new form of anaerobic digester that could generate hydrogen from human waste. ...
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SFO enters fuel cell market
Express Buzz
Jehangir said this product is an environmentally clean alternate energy sources such as solar, wind power and fuel cells. SFO is already working with many ...
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Energy Composites Corporation Completes Sulfide Scrubber
TransWorldNews (press release)
Energy Composites Corporation has announced the completion of fabricating and testing a hydrogen sulfide scrubber vessel. This is the first that the company ...
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Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Blacklight Power launches home page make-over
Before It's News
Introducing our next leap forward: the power of water. Using water as fuel, hydrinos release 200 times more energy than by burning hydrogen, making energy ...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

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WWJ

HFCC Energy Summit Shows Potential Of Green Business
WWJ
Included was a discussion of the Interstate Traveler Co., the Detroit-based effort to build solar-powered, hydrogen-burning elevated railways along ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

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Nanowerk LLC

Nanotechnology recycles environmental energy waste into hydrogen fuel
Nanowerk LLC
A recent study, for instance, has demonstrated that the small vibrational energy waste generated in the environment from noise, wind power, running water, ...
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USA Today

More Hollywood celebrities build green homes -- not always easy for them, either
USA Today
"We are soon going to put in wind power as well," Cameron said in an interview with The Sun. Other actors with solar-powered or otherwise eco-friendly homes ...
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DailyTech

GM Begins Testing Production-Intent Fuel Cell System
DailyTech
Others will be driven by businesses and a few will be used to continue showing that, with proper fueling infrastructure, hydrogen fuel cells are a viable ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Renewables and Energy Storage: A Misunderstood Partnership
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
A storage plant typically interconnects to the grid as a whole rather than being tied to balancing the output from a specific wind farm or solar plant. ...
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Mother Nature Network

Energy tax credits for your home
Mother Nature Network
There are additional tax incentives for more extravagant projects such as installing residential wind turbines, solar water heaters and hydrogen fuel cells. ...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Australia's WHL Energy sells UK Bodinfinnoch wind farm assets (16 Mar 2010)
New Energy Matters (subscription)
The 48MW Scotland-based farm was to form part of the LadyMoor renewable energy project together with the 5MW Kilbirnie hydrogen balancing plant, ...
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News media: Register now for UD's free workshop on alternative energy set April 26
University of Delaware
... solar and wind power, clean coal, nuclear power, hydrogen fuel-cell research, vehicle-to-grid technology, and energy by the numbers from leading experts ...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Xcel tests energy storage to make wind use more stable
Finance and Commerce
When more power is being produced than is needed, the wind turbines are easier to shut down than the nuclear or coal-fired generators. ...
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SD simplifying small renewable energy incentives
BusinessWeek
The existing structure provides varying incentives for wind, solar, hydroelectric, hydrogen, biomass and geothermal projects, Johnson said, ...
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Training centre will boost bid for electric cars
The Northern Echo
He also stressed that, with the North-East positioning itself as an international hub for low-carbon expertise, including wind power, the new centre will ...
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Google Alert - hydrogen, wind, power

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Combining Clean Technologies: NREL's Wind-to-Hydrogen Project
EnergyBoom
Hydrogen from wind and solar power were compressed to high pressure to fill the vehicle's 1.8-kg storage tank. The vehicle travels around 110 miles between ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Weekly Investor Roundup
SustainableBusiness.com
KS) has chosen Nova Scotia, Canada, for its North American production center for wind turbine towers and blades. The facility is expected to be operational ...
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Mercury News interview: Energy Secretary Steven Chu
San Jose Mercury News
They have land, so they can have wind turbines. They can have carbon offsets from planting trees. They can have biofuel from biowaste. ...
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National Post (blog)

Open Book, by Philip Marchand: Solar, by Ian McEwen
National Post (blog)
The Centre, for example, goes out of business after spending almost all its funds on a wind turbine, suggested by Beard, that turns out to be a “worthless ...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

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Gadget Review (blog)

A Wind Powered Toy Car
Gadget Review (blog)
We've already seen the Hydrogen powered RC car, so it's really no surprise to see a wind power generated one emerge on the market. The Tamiya Loopwing Wind ...
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Heliocentris wind / solar / fuel cell power system for Saudi University
Hydrogen Journal
... to supply an "entire energy solution" including solar and wind power electricity generation, battery and hydrogen energy storage, and a fuel cell. ...
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)
Pumps & Systems
The project is considered an opportunity for services providers and international manufacturers to compete in the Egyptian wind power market. ...
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Six cleantech companies looking for IPO exits
Cleantech Group
Swedish wind power company O2 Vind applied for listing on Nasdaq OMX, with an expected price range of SEK65 ($9.2 million) to SEK85 (see Inside cleantech ...
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Because we love these reader back-and-forths:
National Review Online (blog)
So, whatever energy is spent getting the hydrogen and oxygen apart cannot exceed the amount of energy gained by putting them back together. ...
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SAY ANYTHING: The Bloom Box: “Clean” Energy of the Future?
Villanovan (subscription)
The fuel cell can produce electricity anywhere and at any time, unlike wind and solar generators. It can operate on a variety of inputs, but natural gas and ...
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A Focus on the USA – Overview
Energy Collective (blog)
Install ~10000 5 MW wind turbines, that's over 2 every day. Each of these turbines is over 100 metres high. Fit (or build new) nearly 20 big coal fired ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Study Citing Importance of Carbon Capture and Storage to Meet State's Emission ...
Earthtimes (press release)
Hydrogen Energy California, which provided funding for the E3 study, is seeking to build California's first industrial scale hydrogen-fired power plant with ...
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SCITUATE BEN THERE, DONE THAT: New ideas look bright
Scituate Mariner
Using the sun to split oxygen and hydrogen from water over the course of four hours, these scientists believe they can produce enough energy to power the ...
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Transforming Transportation

http://gl-zephyr.blogspot.com - wasting 80% of all oil...

It is beyond stupid that we waste 80% of the energy in every drop of fuel burned as "waste heat." Every internal combustion engine should be paired with a Stirling-cycle engine, or two to capture as much heat as possible and convert it to useful energy.

If cars had a 400HP electric motor, a small gasoline motor running a generator and powering a Stirling engine that also ran a generator, and a battery bank as a buffer, we could probably double or even triple fuel efficiency.

Even more so if the car/truck were a "plug-in" hybrid that could charge at night and run the first 40 miles on battery during the day.

Most power plants idle at night, wasting copious amounts of electricity because it is too difficult and expensive to shut them down and start them back up.

We could use a lot of that electricity wasted at night to charge the batteries of cars and trucks without burning another ounce of fuel of any kind.

Studies have shown that enough electricity is wasted at night by idling electric generation plants to power 75%, or three quarters of all the entire fleet of American automobiles. All without burning another drop of oil.

The solutions have been available for decades.

Dan

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Wired News

Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
Wired News
High-altitude wind power using similar parafoils has received increasing attention from entrepreneurs and green tech backers like Google.org because the ...
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The big challenge in wind energy portability
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
This is where the power of the hydrogen economy should become manifest, if we can make the numbers work. If you can turn wind power or solar energy into ...
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Commercialising solar energy
Express Buzz
On the future scenario, Muller says hydrogen has the potential to become the energy of the future. Today, more than 90 per cent of the hydrogen is produced ...
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IBM invents Plant-based plastics that are enviro-friendly (Raw Story)

(http://gl-zephyr.blogspot.com) IBM invents Plant-based plastics that are enviro-friendly (Raw Story)

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

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Organizers prep for 70 mln Shanghai Expo visitors
The Associated Press
... including China's largest solar rooftop energy system and wind turbines to power buildings at the Expo. More than 1000 hydrogen and electricity-powered ...
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Delegated Legislation Committee - Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2010
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Because of the attractiveness of round three, Clipper Windpower of the United States has agreed to invest here and, just a week ago, Mitsubishi signed a ...
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Walmart's New Energy Efficient Centre in Canada
International Supermarket News
Rooftop solar systems and wind turbines also are planned for two Ontario projects that the company says it will disclose this spring. ...
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Deepwater Structures Inc is ready for OTEC renewable Energy Power Plant for Hawaii
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
... and wind based power plant. Considering no operational cost this is very attractive. The future of OTEC would turn into Hydrogen production platform. ...
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