The FBI to Deploy “Whisper Quiet” Smart Wind Turbines
Renewable energy is the future of power generation, and there are myriad reasons why we need to take it seriously. But the FBI is now proving that there are other less-discussed benefits to using...
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‘Vehicle to Grid’ Electric Car Generates Enough Energy to Power an Entire Block
Over at the University of Delaware, one professor is driving a revolutionary, one-of-a-kind electric car. It’s capable of what is called V2G — ‘vehicle to grid’. Which means it can collect energy as it...
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Meet the Eco-Utopian Community of Sadhana Forest
Do you ever look at the destruction that climate change is wreaking on our planet and think to yourself: What can I do to about it? If so, you might want to visit Sadhana Forest. Sadhana Forest is the...
View ArticleSmart Grid Could Revolutionize How We Use Electricity
Try to think of an electronic device that hasn’t changed in the past 100 years or so. It’s hard, isn’t it? Most of the things we use every day — cars, computers, phones, TV’s, etc. — have advanced...
View ArticleSolar Fuel Could Drastically Increase the Energy We Get From the Sun
Just one hour of sunlight could meet the whole world’s power needs for an entire year. That’s more energy than we even know what to do with, and it’s dangling right in front of our faces. Yes, we have...
View ArticleSolar Will be as Cheap as Coal in 4 Years: New Report
If the government-linked reports are to be believed, then China’s all set to double its solar capacity by the end of the year — up to 2 Gigawatts, in fact. That was (somewhat) surprising news alone....
View ArticleNew Wind Turbine Design Could Generate 3X the Power
This just seems too easy: Japanese researchers say that they’ve discovered a simple way to make wind turbines up to three times as efficient. By placing a ‘wind lens’ around the turbine blades, they...
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Occupy Rooftops Seeks to Start a Community Solar Revolution
As we’ve pointed out a number of times already, there are myriad links between the Occupy Wall Street movement and modern environmentalism. The biggest and most obvious is that our energy supply is...
View ArticleWind Power to be as Cheap as Natural Gas by 2016
In a few places, wind power is already as cheap as natural gas or coal-fired electricity. By and large, however, it’s still a bit more expensive in most regions ’round the world. But not for long....
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Half of Germany can run on solar power. We can do it too
This is what can happen when citizens and government agree that it’s worth spending a bit more for clean, carbon-free power: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of...
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