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Shaky Foundations for Offshore Wind Farms14 Feb, 2012 10:00 am Offshore wind farms are far more difficult and expensive than developing on-shore wind power. If the UK is serious about providing 25% of its electricity...EU Set to Stockpile Rare Earth Elements (REEs).13 Sep, 2011 03:23 pm In order to address the shortfall in REEs for vital renewable energy projects caused by China's restriction of them onto the world markets for its own...Natural Limits to World Wind Energy?20 Jul, 2011 10:39 am From a thermodynamic analysis, it is estimated that the amount of energy available in the Earth system to be extracted by wind-turbines is limited at 18..."Electric Cars Should be Called Coal Cars": The Heretic.13 Apr, 2011 10:24 am Even if we could make enough electric cars fast enough to curb our oil consumption significantly, the provision of green electricity for them remains a...Endangered Elements: Threat to Green Energy.8 Feb, 2011 11:00 am Demand for rare earth elements (REEs) is projected to exceed current supply, 97% of which comes from China. Since neodymium and dysprosium are needed for...British Power is all Wind.14 Nov, 2010 08:37 pm Despite the opening of the new Thanet wind-farm in the English Channel, the present rate of development of wind-power indicates that Britain will struggle...Australia Plans to be Carbon-Neutral by 2020.25 Aug, 2010 10:48 pm By means of a huge new installation of concentrating solar thermal (CST) and wind-power and the electrification of its transportation infrastructure,...Curtains down on self-cleaning windows?22 Jul, 2010 11:29 am We take the green credentials of nano-TiO2 cleaning agents for a test ride and arrive at some surprising results!Vestas: Will business be brisk again?18 Jun, 2010 01:42 pm “Wind is all we do,” says Martha Wyrsch, the president of Vestas Americas.From Japan: Eco Products Exhibition 200918 Dec, 2009 12:19 am It?s that time of the year again where the world gets together to see what we can do about solving energy and climate problems. That?s right, I?...The Real Policy Lesson From the Chinese Wind Turbine "Scare"12 Nov, 2009 11:02 pm Outcry over a planned Texas wind farm, which will be the first project to import wind turbines from a Chinese manufacturer, has resulted in calls to prevent...The Necessity of "All of the Above"15 Oct, 2009 12:58 pm I've devoted a lot of space in my blog to explaining why we need all of the energy choices currently available to us, including energy efficiency,...China could meet all of the demand for electricity by wind alone30 Sep, 2009 03:05 pm A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the huge potential for wind-generated electricity in China...Offshore Wind: Europe Now, U.S. When?22 Sep, 2009 06:21 pm Last week, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) held their 2009 offshore event in Stockholm, where 4,750 attendees (up from about 2,...The Climate-Industrial Complex24 Aug, 2009 08:54 am According to the Center for Public Integrity the number of companies and groups now lobbying the US Congress on the subject of climate change has passed...Save Birds by Promoting Wind Energy9 May, 2009 10:53 am A new study shows that wind farms and nuclear power plants are substantially better for avian wildlife than fossil-fueled power stations.Perfect Energy16 Apr, 2009 08:17 am The recent start-up of the latest large-scale nuclear fusion experiment, the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...Storing Sunlight16 Mar, 2009 03:04 pm An article in MIT's Technology Review on a new liquid battery technology got me rethinking an assumption I've been making for some time concerning the...Alternative Energy And Natural Gas13 Jan, 2009 06:08 pm At the end of the first full work week of the new year--a week I suspect I am not alone in having found a bit of a slog--a pair of articles in MIT's Technology...Need More Energy? Look to the Islands6 Jan, 2009 09:02 pm Islands offer many advantages for hosting wind farms without the problems of mounting wind turbines in a hostile marine environment.The Solar Stage is Set6 Oct, 2008 01:41 pm have been pretty disgusted by this whole $700 billion bailout. I felt like we let a lot of people get away with some very bad behavior; behavior that enriched...Alternative Energy Will Win Hands Down3 Jul, 2008 04:14 pm If we develop common-sense new ideas, we won?t be importing oil, not to mention the new jobs created. As an energy inventor, here?s how I see it.Will the Rate-of-Conversion Problem Derail Alternative Energy?23 May, 2008 02:02 pm Many alternative energy advocates claim that it is possible to replace our fossil fuel economy with one that runs on a combination of nuclear power and...How Many Windmills Does It Take to Power the World?26 Feb, 2008 10:51 am Power densities are a measure of the land required for both energy sources and energy users. The current infrastructure matches the small footprint of...Spatial Pattern and Mechanism of Heat Content Change in the North Atlantic5 Feb, 2008 04:30 pm Parts of the Earth?s climate system are clearly changing through anthropogenic forcing: a rise in surface and atmospheric temperatures,...Renewable Energy Technologies Just as Reliable as Fossil Fuel Plants24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm The "intermittency" of wind and solar is not a reason to reject renewablesTogether Better than Alone: Network of Wind Farms Can Generate Smoother Power Supply7 Dec, 2007 06:24 pm Wind is a clean and never ending source of energy, but also an unreliable one, because it blows intermittently. This intermittency and unpredictability...Harvesting the Wind30 Oct, 2007 12:02 pm This is the first in a series of video podcasts for the PBS series e2 energy. Each podcast takes you beyond the episodes and deeper into the world of alternative...Diverse Renewable Energy Sources Is The Best Option16 Jan, 2007 11:28 am Dr. Daniel Kammen is the director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley... |