Archive for May, 2007
« Previous EntriesGreen Options Blog: House bill threatens Wind Power
Thursday, May 31st, 2007According to GreenOptions.com, House Bill H.R. 2337, entitled the Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act, is designed to promote alternative energy and efficiency. However, there’s a provision in the bill that was wind energy supporters up in arms.
“Subtitle D, called the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act, would require new hoops and [...]
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Iowa Wind farm deal near completion
Monday, May 28th, 2007The Forrest City Summit states that negotiations for a 100 turbine wind farm near Crystal Lake, Iowa are about 90 percent complete. The negotiations are for 161 kilowatt transmission lines that will bring power from the wind farm to the Lime Creek Power Station. The company (FPL Energy LLC, a [...]
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Centex to offer solar power systems in 89 homes in Florida
Monday, May 28th, 2007From Earthtimes.org - Centex Homes, a home building company, is installing Sharp provided 2.1 kilowatt solar cell system in 89 new homes in a new community north of Naples, FL called The Quarry.
“Centex is committed to balancing land conservation with responsible development, and The Quarry is being built on that principal,” said Tim [...]
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Meeting the demand for green packaging
Saturday, May 26th, 2007Reducing the size and weight of packaging not only helps a company’s bottom line, it also helps the environment. Berry Plastics is one of a number of companies that handles redesign projects for customers who want to make their products less bulky - last year on one project alone, they were able [...]
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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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Environmentally Friendly Farmers Abandon Tradition for Power
Sunday, May 20th, 2007DW-World.DE has a pretty interesting article about a town in southern Germany that is producing more power than it uses. The farmers in Freiamt, a town of around 4,500 people near the Black Forest, have put up windmills, installed solar panels, and used the extra warmth that’s created when their cows’ milk is [...]
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New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Physorg.com reports that researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that uses an alumininum alloy to extract hydrogen from water. The hydrogen can be used to run fuel cells or internal combustion engines. With this method to obtain hydrogen, it makes in unnecessary to store or transport hydrogen.
“Hydrogen is generated spontaneously [...]
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Another 240 MW Wind Power goes online for Texas customers
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Renewable Energy Access is reporting that 181 new wind turbines just came online at the Cottonwood Creek Wind Farm in Sweetwater, Texas, generating another 240 megawatts of wind power for CPS Energy customers. The new wind turbines represent an expansion of the Cottonwood Creek farm, which previously had a 100 megawatt capacity. [...]
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APS dedicates New Mexico wind farm that will power 23,000 homes
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Arizona Public Service Co, which is Arizona’s largest utility, has dedicated a new wind power facility that will produce enough electricity for up to 23,000 homes.
The wind farm consists of 90 wind turbines located outside of Santa Rosa in earstern New Mexico. The turbines add 90 additional megawatts to electricity to the [...]
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Using shampoo to make better solar panels
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007MSNBC is reporting that researchers at Rice University are exploring better and cheaper ways of making quantum dots, which as I reported on earlier, shows promise in increasing the efficiency of solar cells.
Micheal Wong, a chemical engineer at Rice, and his team have come up with a new formula that leads to a better yield [...]
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