Waste Heat From Computers to Warm Buildings
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Iain Aitch and Hannah Bullock Telecommunications company aims to hook up London site to nearby homes and offices Any laptop user will know that even the most casual of Twittering with a computer resting on ...
Waste Heat From Computers to Warm Buildings
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Iain Aitch and Hannah Bullock Telecommunications company aims to hook up London site to nearby homes and offices Any laptop user will know that even the most casual of Twittering with a computer resting on ...
China Begins Transition To A Clean-Energy Economy
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThis is the most comprehensive discussion I’ve seen of everything China is doing to green itself. It is by Julian Wong, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew Light, a ...
Energy Leaders Launch Efficiency Partnership
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffEnergy ministers from the world's largest economies have formally launched the first high-level body focused exclusively on advancing energy efficiency worldwide. While several international forums exchange energy advice, the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC) [PDF] ...
Poo power to the people
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Helen Pidd • German town to use cow and horse manure for green energy • Biogas network could provide 30-40% of town's needs Cows in Pirbright, England. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty A German town will become the first ...
Concentrated Solar Power Goes Mainstream: Lockheed-Martin To Build Large CSP Plant With Thermal Storage In Arizona
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffWhat is the best evidence that concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) aka solar baseload is indeed a core climate solution with big near-term -- and very big medium-term -- promise? One of the country's biggest ...
China Puts Its Faith In Solar Power With Huge Renewable Energy Investment
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Jonathan Watts By 2020, Chinese government is committed to raising the share of renewable energy in the energy mix to 6%. China is to throw its economic might behind a national solar power plan that could result ...
Wales Plans For Energy Self-Sufficiency With Renewables In 20 Years
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy John Vidal Wales today laid out radical plans to make it one of the most energy- and resource-efficient countries in the world within a generation. The government development plans, which are legally binding, are far in advance ...
Smart Energy Meters In Every UK Home By 2020
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBy Adam Vaughan Consumers to benefit from savings achieved through increased awareness of energy use but householders likely to pick up some of the costs of the compulsory, nationwide scheme Every home in the UK must be fitted ...
United States Considers Biofuel Emissions
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe Obama administration unveiled its first proposals for how the United States should implement its biofuels policies yesterday, announcing a plan to analyze the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions related to the renewable fuels.The U.S. ...
The Next 100 Days: Bring on the Sizzle
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments Offby Bill Becker It is time for President Obama to mobilize us all to help build the new energy economy. The “clean energy FDR” has begun shaping the public policies we need with a history-making first 100 ...
U.S. Wind Energy Industry Installs Over 2,800 MW In First Quarter — Double Q1 2008
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffReports of the demise of the clean energy industry have been, well, exaggerated (see "Global recession? Must be time for the media’s alternative-energy backlash"). The American Wind Energy Association reports: The wind energy industry installed over 2,800 ...
Small Amounts of Investment Could Yield Gigantic Energy Savings in Emerging Nations
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffFor India, an investment of $10 billion in energy efficiency improvements could result in gigantic energy savings, a new World Resource Institute (WRI) report states. According to Powering Up: The Investment Potential of Energy Service Companies ...
World’s Largest Solar Power Plants With Thermal Storage To Be Built In Arizona
Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffWhat's the easiest way to deal with the intermittency of many renewable sources of energy? Cheap storage. And what form of storage is much cheaper and has a much higher round-trip efficiency than electric ...
Exxon Profits, Everyone Else…Not So Much
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffSingle oil company reaps 45 percent of Fortune 500 profits. Worth noting: the Fortune 500 -- a list of America's 500 highest-grossing corporations -- had their worst year ever last year. Total profits for the nation's 500 ...
Coal the Culprit in Rising Emissions Intensity
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffEven in a recession, we're too reliant on coal power.I wrote last week about a curious fact: even though total CO2 emissions from the US electric power sector have dropped during the recession, the emissions intensityof ...
Huge ‘Green Power Express’ Wind Grid Gains Federal Rate Incentives
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffWind power is coming of age as the U.S. becomes the global wind leader and probably the biggest source of new jobs in the energy industry. I previously wrote about ITC Holdings’ plans to build ...
Huge ‘Green Power Express’ Wind Grid Gains Federal Rate Incentives
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffWind power is coming of age as the U.S. becomes the global wind leader and probably the biggest source of new jobs in the energy industry. I previously wrote about ITC Holdings’ plans to build ...
Driving Downhill?
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe Wall Street Journal reports that an increasing number of energy analysts think that US gasoline sales will never surpass their 2007 record: Among those who say U.S. consumption of gasoline has peaked are executives at the ...
Wind Turbine Plant Near Detroit to Hire 250 — PLUS It’s Braggin’ Time For Wind!
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffBack in February, David Bradish, who blogs at NuclearNotes, commented on my post “Nuclear meltdown in Finland“: How about you let us know when wind power in the U.S. actually generates one percent of the electricity in ...