Archive for December, 2006
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006A new wind power farm has gone into operation in western Iowa, producing enough electricity to power the homes of about 40,000 Iowa customers. MidAmerican Energy’s Victory wind project consists of 66 wind turbines and generates about 99 megawatts. Construction began on the project just last spring.
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Jews Campaign for Oil Conservation
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Whittier Daily News -
“Rabbi Ron Stern has scanned the parking lot at Stephen S. Wise Temple and seen the same gas-guzzling cars that dominate Los Angeles freeways.
He’s turned the ignition of his own SUV and known he was contributing to America’s reliance on foreign oil.
But after realizing that America’s driving habits help [...]
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Wired News: The Building is the Solar Cell
Sunday, December 24th, 2006Wired News has a short recap on the companies working on CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) solar cells. By using CIGS, manufacturers can make solar cells 100 times thinner than silicon based solar cells, at hopefully a much cheaper prices. Thin film technology can allow building materials such as steel, [...]
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Wind Turbines in New Mexico Sending Power to Arizona
Sunday, December 24th, 2006On Friday, The Arizona Public Service Co starting receiving power from wind power turbines located in New Mexico. The 20 year agreement between APS and the Aragonne Mesa Wind Farm in eastern New Mexico will send 5 megawatts of wind generated power into Arizona, enough to power about 25,000 homes. [...]
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SoCal Energy signs largest wind power deal
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006On Thursday, Southern California Energy Co said that it had reached an agreement to buy power from a planned 50 square mile wind farm being planned for Tehachapi, California by a subsidiary of Australia’s Alico Financial Group, Inc and Mojave based wind farm developer Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc. The 20 [...]
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Bush Pledges to Work With Democrats in 2007 to Cut Oil Imports
Thursday, December 21st, 2006From Bloomberg Dec 20th - President Bush pledged to work with Democrats in 2007 to spend more to develop other sources of fuel. In the President’s State of the Union address in 2006, Bush asked Congress for a 22% increase in research spending for solar, wind, nuclear, ethanol, and hydrogen power. [...]
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UK announces world’s largest wind farms
Monday, December 18th, 2006Britain just announced that they have given the go-ahead for two offshore wind power farms in the Thames Estuary. One of the wind power farms will be the world’s biggest when it’s completed.
The consortium developing the project is made up of Shell WindEnergy Ltd, E.ON UK Renewables and Core Ltd. [...]
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Hydro-charger launched in Queenstown, New Zealand
Sunday, December 17th, 2006We mentioned the Hydro-charger a couple of weeks ago and mentioned that the official launch of this hydrogen on demand system for internal combustion engines was to be officially launched on Dec 11th. At the event, the Hydro-charger was demoed in “a variety of applications including cars, buses, farm equipment and even [...]
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Electricity right from your windows
Saturday, December 16th, 2006 A company named Octillion announced in a press release yesterday their development plan to use “nanosilicon photovoltaic solar cells that have the potential to convert normal home and office glass windows into ones capable of converting solar energy into electricity.”
“When thin films of silicon nanoparticles are deposited (sprayed) onto silicon substrates, ultraviolet light [...]
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Mileage From Megawatts: Study Finds Enough Electric Capacity To ‘Fill Up’ Plug-in Vehicles
Thursday, December 14th, 2006There have been concerns about what happens when plug-in hybrids become a reality - will the pollution just shift from cars to power plants due to the need to build more plants with higher capacity? A new study from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that even if all the cars and light [...]
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