Wind power without the blades. Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks generate electricity when [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alternative energy’
Pronoiacs Fight for Environmental Health and Beauty
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, wind power on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Uniting Behind Pronoiac Goals
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, nicaragua on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nicaragua’s push to generate 94 percent of its own electricity from renewable resources by 2016 without damaging the environment has united the country. “The energy issue is an essential component for our sustainable development to assure the wellbeing and progress of the current and future generations,” says Emilio Rappaccioli, Nicaragua’s minister of energy and mines. [...]
Slowly but Surely, We’re Creating an Energy-Efficient Future
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, solar energy on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new solar cell that achieves 41 percent efficiency The 41-percent efficiency rating is one of the highest recorded at this (light) concentration, and is challenged only by Stanford University spinoff Solar Junction’s multijunction GaAs cells, confirmed at 43.5 percent efficiency. The company is hoping for a DOE loan guarantee to expand production.
Nature Can Cure Some of the Excesses of Technology
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, planes on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Camelina-based jet fuel reduces carbon emissions from jets by about 80 percent The first transatlantic flight powered by biofuel landed Saturday at Paris-Le Bourget Airport after a seven hour flight from New Jersey. One-quarter of the fuel used to carry the Gulfstream G450 jet across the Atlantic Ocean was biofuel derived from camelina. A 50/50 [...]
Cost of Solar Energy Is Shrinking
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, solar on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re just a few years from the point at which electricity from solar panels becomes cheaper than electricity generated by burning coal. The progress in solar panels has been dramatic and sustained. Solar Is Getting Cheaper, but How Far Can It Go? Here Comes the Sun California Solar Industry Booming: Report Finds State’s Solar Capacity [...]
Conspiracy to Create Clean Energy
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, brazil, wind on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Brazilian wind power now cheaper than natural gas Seventy-eight wind power projects won contracts in last week’s energy auctions held by Brazil’s National Electric Power Agency, totalling 1,928MW and priced at approximately 99.5 reals (£37.4) per MWh. By comparison, the average price for power generated with natural gas is currently 103 reals (£38.7) per MWh [...]
Pay Attention to the Amazing Research Being Done Behind the Scenes
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, olives on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Turning olive waste into “ecologically perfect” fuel. Olives are being looked at as a renewable energy source, since its wood produces 2.5 times more energy than others, the smoke it releases has no negative impact on neighbors or the environment, and the ash left can be used for fertilizing gardens.
The Sun Is One of the Gods of Pronoia
Posted in Images, tagged alternative energy, solar power, sun on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Surface area of the Earth required to power the world with zero carbon emissions, using solar power alone
Smart Tricks
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, bacteria, fuel cells on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Humans harness bacteria
Creative People Are Working Behind the Scenes to Find Better Ways to Do Things
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, green energy, wind on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
High altitude wind machines could power New York City
Next Miracle: Recycled Fuel
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, biodiesel, coffee, gas on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers are reporting they have successfully made a high quality biodiesel from spent coffee grounds. They estimate that the coffee ground biodiesel industry could generate huge profits annually using waste from US Starbucks stores alone. http://gas2.org http://arstechnica.com
As an Experiment, Let’s Try Thinking Big and Positive Instead of Small and Negative
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, wind on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wind could provide 20% of the nation’s energy: ”This is the equivalent of taking 140 million cars off the road”
As an Experiment, Let’s Try Thinking Wild and Fun Instead of Pinched and Serious
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged alternative energy, wind on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More about wind power: For under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030. That would: Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030. Reduce natural gas use by 11 percent. Reduce cumulative water consumption associated with electricity generation by 4 trillion gallons by 2030. Support roughly [...]
