Archive for August, 2006
From Defense News - Renewable Energy Demand Reaches US Front Lines
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006This article linked from EVWorld describes how the US Military is trying to use solar panels and wind generators to reduce reliance on long and vulnerable supply lines for fuel. The cost of fuel is chewing up more and more of the military’s budget - included in that cost is the cost and [...]
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US Wind Energy systems exceed 10,000 megawatts
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006A new report from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) says that US Wind power energy installations now exceed 10,000 megawatts in generating capacity. Manufacturing.net provides more details on the report - the 10,000 megawatts is enough to power 2.5 million homes on a typical day.
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A Different Type of Solar Power - Hybrid Solar Lighting
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006What’s Hybrid Lighting? It’s where mirrors on the roof collect sunlight and pipe it into your building using small bundles of fiber optic cables. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory currently have five hybrid solar ighting systems already in place and another 20 ready to go within a couple [...]
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Update on Denny Klein’s Aquygen and HHO
Sunday, August 6th, 2006You remember this one, right? The water powered/Aquygen car that was on Fox News and CNN a couple of months ago. Well, WAVE3 in Louisville, KY has a small update on Denny Klein and his company, Hydrogen Technology Applicatons, Inc.
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More on the Solar Tower
Friday, August 4th, 2006I’ve seen lots more chatter about that Solar Tower that’s in the planning stages in Australia.
Solar Power or Wind Power? How about using solar power to create wind power
The Energy Blog, as usual, has a nice indepth article along with some discussion.
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Vail Resorts investing in Wind Power
Friday, August 4th, 2006Vail Resorts, the big Colorado based ski and resort company, is making a huge investment in wind power, by buying enough wind power credits to offset all the electricity needed for its resorts, office buildings, and retail stores. The company will become the second largest corporate buyer of wind power in the [...]
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Solar Power or Wind Power? How about using solar energy to create wind energy?
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006This is pretty interesting. Pennysleuth, a micro-cap investor newsletter, talks about a “Solar Tower of Power” being built in the Australian Outback. Basically, they’re creating a huge funnel made of clear plastic that will cover 25,000 acres. As the sun’s rays come thru the plastic, it heats the air inside, which [...]
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