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Monday, May 12th, 2008The joint venture between the Silicon Valley startup Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan, showed off its prototype all electric Renault sedan in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The project, which has the endorsement of Isreal’s government, hopes to have Isreal become the first country in the world to have large numbers of electric cars. […]
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Green Giants: The World’s Biggest Clean-Energy Projects
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008A pretty good synopsis of some of the world’s largest clean-energy projects is on tap at Forbes.com. From Bahrain’s new building-integrated wind turbine skyscraper to the London Array project that will be the world’s largest offshore wind form, there’s a bunch of large scale projects on the horizon. Forbes has some […]
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New solar carport goes online at East LA College
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008East Los Angeles College has just turned on a 1.2 megawatt solar farm spread over a 3-acre 530 spot parking log in Monerry Park, California. The farm consists of 5,952 solar panels - its expected to provide up to 45% of the college’s electricity. Currently, the solar farm is performing even better than expected, […]
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ch-ch-changes
Sunday, March 9th, 2008I’m playing around with some new themes for the site. The previous theme looked good, but I was noticing some problems in some browsers - especially firefox. I spent some time trying to fix it, but I’m giving up and trying some more wordpress compliant themes. Unfortunately, things might be a little unsettled for a […]
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Want to know more about vertical axis wind turbines?
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Mother Earth News recently published a guide to vertical axis wind turbines at their site. Vertical axis wind turbines have been in the news lately, from the Bluenergy SolarWind Turbine, to the Aerogenerator, to Mariah Power’s new Windspire, which is about to start one year of rigorous performance testing with the National Renewable Energy […]
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IBM measures the force needed to move individual atoms
Friday, February 22nd, 2008This isn’t specifically related to alternative energy, but I found it pretty cool. It potentially could have big ramifications for the nanotech field and might also lead to future semiconductors that use way less power than current chips. IBM researchers, in a press release, have announced that they are the first to measure the force it takes to move individual […]
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The Power Plant in Your Pants
Sunday, February 10th, 2008With a title like that, how can I let this go by?
According to Information Week, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Simon Fraser University in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh have developed a knee brace that captures energy from a moving knee, similar to the way a Prius recharges its batteries […]
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Google thinks green to power its business
Monday, November 12th, 2007Computerworld has a nice wrapup of all the different things that Google is doing to reach its goal of creating 50 megawatts of renewable generating capacity for its operations by 2012. From 9,212 solar panels covering eight rooftops at Google’s Mountain View, Calif headquarters to older flourescent bulbs with newer more energy efficient […]
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Brookhaven nanomaterials center tackles energy research
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007From EETimes: A new Center for Functional Nanomaterials at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY was dedicated on Monday May 21. The Center “will help advance the effort to achieve US energy independence,” by focusing on three primary disciplines: electronic materials such as those with optoelectronic properties, catalysis (the study […]
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MarketWatch: Alternative Energy Capital Cycle in Early Stages
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Analysts at the New York based Jefferies Group Inc. are telling investors that the alternative energy field is at “the very early stages of the capital cycle.” Overall trends such as global warming realization, energy security needs, and technological advances are causing there to be larger involvement from hedge funds, venture capitalists and […]
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