Alternative Energy
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Less than 5 miles from the Eiffel tower, a 120 foot cylinder rises into the air, not unlike the Egyptian obelisk a little further down the street. This is not a new art installation or a simple flag pole, however, but rather a modified piece of machinery more familiar with ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
A lot of us would love to get our hands on wind power, but if we can't put it in our own back yards, there's generally not much we can do, other than investing in an energy company that has a small portion of its electrical generation from wind. There ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
To be perfectly honest we've not been fans of hydrogen around here, in fact we're pretty much against it for most suggested applications. The problem with hydrogen is that today the majority of it is produced from by-products of natural gas combustion which releases CO2 into the atmosphere, among other ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
General Motors has announced that they are planning on building the world's largest rooftop solar installation, to be located on their car manufacturing plant in Zaragosa, Spain. Well, ok, GM is not actually building it, or even owning it, or operating it, so it might just be a bit of ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Like the Prius wasn't good enough already, with its much anticipated 2010 model featuring a plug-in version, it's getting a set of solar panels on the roof to boot! The wildly popular car, which has already sold over 1 million units and is set to sell half a million annually ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Wave power is one of those renewable resources that everyone seems to agree on; it doesn't create an (arguably) unsightly view, and doesn't take up any usable land. It's also one of those great unbounded sources of energy, and since 2/3rds of the planet is water, there is a lot ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of press lately about the UK's Professor Seamus Garvey, a researcher who designed a method of storing the excess energy produced by wind turbines for later use in a very novel way. Essentially it involves Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), a principle that works by ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Brazil is the 2nd largest producer of ethanol in the world, mostly produced from sugar cane, it makes up a third of all ethanol on the globe. Together with the United States, their numbers reach 70% of current production. In 2007, the country pumped out over 5 billion gallons of ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
At the end of 2007, China had only slightly over 4 gigawatts (GW) of of installed wind turbines, but they are on track to hit and surpass 10 GW by the end of the year, and double that to 20 GW over the next 2 years. This is exceeding even ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
As strange as it may sound, the process that brings you your morning cup of coffee has the potential to increase the actual energy value of biomass, netting up to a 20% increase. The process, called torrefaction, was originally developed in France in the 1980s as a means to roast ...
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