Archive for September, 2006
Storing Wind Power
Saturday, September 30th, 2006One of the disadvantages of technologies like wind power and solar power is that your farms produce electricity only during certain times of the day. The sporadic nature of wind and solar power places extra demands on the overall power grid. A number of companies are developing ways to store the […]
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NY State Wind Farm Up and Running
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006News 10 Now in Syracuse NY is reporting about the start up of a wind power farm in Lewis County. It’s been in the making for seven years, but now 140 wind turbines are generating electricity for New York State. By the end of October 55 more wind turbines are expected to […]
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Nissan to enter hybrid market
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006From AutoblogGreen comes news that Nissan will enter the hybrid car market in two stages. First comes an Nissan Altima in 2007 that will use hybrid engine technology licensed from Toyota. In 2010, however, Nissan expects to have their first completely self developed hybrid car available. No details yet on […]
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Ceramic Batteries - a new breakthru?
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006CNBC was talking about disruptive technolgies the other day, and they mentioned an article in Business 2.0 that described 11 new innovations that could disrupt entire industries. One of them was about EEStor, a company in Texas that is working on ceramic batteries that store electricity, charge up in 5 minutes, and […]
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Logjam on wind power projects lifted
Saturday, September 16th, 2006There’s been some articles recently about the Department of Defense slowing or stopping the granting of wind power project licenses due to concerns about conflicts with military radar. It looks like that logjam may be getting cleared. A couple of new projects have just been cleared by the FAA […]
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Rooftop Wind Generators getting closer to reality
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006from the ConsciousEarth blog - a new wind turbine from a company named Mag-Wind has developed what’s known as a magnetically-levitated vertical-axis wind turbine. The unit has a diameter of only 4 feet, and supposedly can generate 1,110 kwh per month with an average windspeed of 13 mph, and will start spinning with […]
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California to cut greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020
Friday, September 1st, 2006The big story yesterday was an agreement by the California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature to cut by 25% the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from Calif refineries, power plants, and manufacturers by 2020. While it still hasn’t been enacted into law, final approval is expected.
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