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Kenya’s Biggest Geothermal Project Planned: 280 MW

Derek Markham — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:04:09 +0000

For a country which can only supply electricity to about 10 percent of its citizens, Kenya has been able to do rather well as far as using renewable energy for its power. Some 90 percent of Kenya’s electricity is produced with hydroelectric dams, which are susceptible to droughts, and its current geothermal plants only produce [...]

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USA Could Generate 37 Million Gigawatt-hours From Wind

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:43:45 +0000

The newest and by far the most scientifically accurate and detailed estimate to date of the nation’s wind power potential has just been published by the NREL in Colorado, in conjunction with AWS Truewind. Back in 1993; when turbines were smaller and less powerful, and computers were less able to calculate wind speeds over [...]

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Idaho Man Builds 12 Foot Solar Road

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:34:34 +0000

Necessity is the mother of invention, and garage inventors have been meeting the challenge of climate change head on. From building their own electric cars to home alternative energy systems, many pioneers of the green movement are regular people who love to tinker. Take for example Idaho resident Scott Brusaw. Brusaw has built a 12 [...]

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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter

Derek Markham — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:26 +0000

For commercial renewable energy enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of eye candy among industrial sized wind installations, but for the homeowner, the closest they get to feeling like they’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker they get from their local utility when purchasing the wind power option for electricity. But [...]

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Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:33:10 +0000

Tobacco, once the glory crop of the South Atlantic region of the United States, has fallen in stature as health problems associated with smoking the plant have come to light. Now tobacco may be able to redeem itself by producing solar cells, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. By infecting tobacco [...]

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Carrot & Stick Policy is Driving Clean Energy Development

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:43:31 +0000

One of the many under-appreciated bits of green legislation that Democrats snuck into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was that electric utilities (as well as businesses and homeowners) could also get a 30% tax credit if they invest in renewable energy. This electric utility eligibility for [...]

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Glitter-Sized Solar Panels Use 100 Times Less Silicon to Generate Electricity

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:16 +0000

As a preschool teacher, glitter is part of my world. These tiny, shiny flecks are loved by little children, yet are detested for the problem their tiny size makes clean-up. Solar energy used to have the opposite problem: the large size of photovoltaic panels needed to produce energy was considered prohibitive for many [...]

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Will EU Apply Carbon Tariffs Against US Rogue States?

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:33:31 +0000

In five states 90% of the electricity comes from coal: Wyoming, North Dakota, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. In Colorado it is 70%. A relatively few highly coal-dependent states is the reason that the overall American carbon footprint per capita is so much higher than Europeans. These polluter-states could see their export businesses threatened with carbon tariffs from the EU.

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