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Wave Powered Boat Sails for 4,350 Miles Across Pacific !
n February this year a 69-year-old sailor named Ken-ichi Horie began his journey on a wave powered boat. From his homeland in Japan, he set off on a 4,350 mile journey to reach Hawaii in a more eco-friendly way. And he did it! It took him around 111 days to accomplish what he started. His advanced wave powered boat traveled at a speed of about 1.5 knots.
Continue reading...Cat And Mouse Cause Blackout in Albanian Capital
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Image from ddfreyne The Albanian capital of Tirana was the center of a 72-hour power outage Friday, the latest in a series that have been plaguing the residents of the small former Soviet satellite. While most the blackouts have been related to a failing infrastructure that’s suffering age-related [...]
Continue reading...Oil Billionaire T. Boone Pickens Turns To Wind
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Image from brooklyn For those of you not fortunate enough to know who T. Boone Pickens is, let me give you a brief rundown: he’s an egomaniac, oilman, and owns a hedge fund named BP Capital Management. He’s worth 3 billion dollars, and has given 230 million-plus to [...]
Continue reading...Alaskan Capital Cuts Power Consumption By 40%
Friday, May 2, 2008
Image from markcbrennan There’s a program in the U.S. called Energy Star– it certifies homes and appliances for cutting their energy consumption anywhere from 15 to 40%. I don’t think they expected it, but we may have found the first entire city that qualifies: Juneau, Alaska, [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Inflatable Solar Panels!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
An English company, IDC, has announced plans to mass-produce an inflatable solar panel and make it commercially available for less than 100 pounds ($200) , a great leap forward in making green energy available to the masses. Image courtesy of IDC
Continue reading...California Power Grid is Full of Sh*t
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
California, long the most progressive state in the union when it comes to environmental policy, has launched an alternative energy initiative that’s, well, innovative. “When most people see a pile of manure, they see a pile of manure. We saw it as an opportunity”, claimed David Albers, [...]
Continue reading...The City that Just Said No to Nuclear
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Some 30 years ago, I lived in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Freiburg, Germany. Photo by CrazyD At that time, Ontario Hydro wanted to build a nuclear plant in nearby Pickering, Ontario. Between sets at the annual summer concert in Peterborough’s Crary Park a man got [...]
Continue reading...Major U.S. Banks Will no Longer Finance “Dirty” Power Plants
Monday, February 4, 2008
Environmental activists have a strange new group of allies. Image by Ramy Majouji Several of the world’s largest investment banks will introduce new environmental standards, making it much harder for companies to get financing for
Continue reading...Welcome to the Solar Century
Friday, January 4, 2008
New technology means solar power could one day provide all the world’s energy needs – but governments must do their bit. Until a few years ago the suggestion that solar power might provide the answer to the intertwined problems of long term energy security and climate change would [...]
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
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