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NASA Sustainability Base Showcases High-Tech, Eco Friendly Design

Architecture / June 3, 2011 / 2 Comments

NASA’s space expertise means it’s virtually unmatched when it comes to creating efficient and sustainable environments for humans to live and work, and the innovative new office facility at their Ames Research Center near San Francisco is a showcase of intelligent and environmentally friendly design. Designed by William McDonough + Partners, the Sustainability Base draws […]

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Wind Power Gains Speed: Efficient, Clean, Endless Energy Source

Uncategorized / October 8, 2010 / 2 Comments

Wind power produces no pollutants like carbon dioxide, and it requires no input of water or fuel resources, making wind one of the planet’s cleanest and most abundant sources of renewable energy. And it’s been front-page news in recent weeks: the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm in England officially began operations in September, becoming the largest

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Is This The World’s Most Efficient Windmill?

Household & Building / May 11, 2009 / 16 Comments

Sometimes the epitome of efficiency is using whatever tools are available to accomplish the job at hand. No one understands this better than William Kamkwamba, a teenager from rural Malawi whose ingenuity provided his family and neighbors with electricity from a most unlikely source.

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Korean Village Runs On 100% Solar Power

Uncategorized / May 10, 2008 / 7 Comments

The Korean village Donggwang gets 100% of its power from the sun. The village is located on the semi-tropical island of Jeju-do. Near the village, Halla Mountain, a volcano and the tallest mountain in South Korea, rises from the island’s center amidst a patchwork of small farms. The village’s forty houses and the school all

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Costa Rica Is 99% Powered By Renewable Energy

Uncategorized / April 8, 2008 / 60 Comments

Costa Rica is a country rich with renewable energy. In fact, it gets about 99% of all its electrical energy from clean sources, and it’s aiming to be the first country to become carbon neutral (more about that below). Some of Costa Rica’s energy sources include geothermal energy, the burning of sugarcane waste and other

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German Parliment To Use 100% Renewable Power

Uncategorized / March 25, 2008 / 2 Comments

The German Reichstag is expected to become the greenest parliament building in the world, thanks to a decision to rely solely on renewable energy. From late summer the building is due to swap to green power sources such as water, wind and solar energy, replacing the conventional power that it has largely relied upon until

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Windspire: Propeller-Free Household Turbine Gets Approval

Uncategorized / February 9, 2008 / 57 Comments

We just featured the largest wind turbine in the world, now here’s something at the opposite end of the spectrum: a household wind turbine. In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of mini-wind turbines that haven’t turned out to be very useful. But the Windspire turbine from Mariah Power sounds interesting. The Windspire

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New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)

Uncategorized / February 3, 2008 / 469 Comments

The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most

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It’s Official: Toyota Testing Plug-In Hybrid In Japan, U.S. and Europe

Uncategorized / July 25, 2007 / 2 Comments

Toyota has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle for public road tests in Japan and plans the tests for the U.S. and Europe. (Cars that can run on electricity are much more efficient and economical than gasoline powered cars. They can recharged via renewable energy sources like the solar power and wind power. Even if the

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Newest 5 Megawatt Wind Turbines

Uncategorized / July 23, 2007 / Leave a Comment

These 5 megawatt wind turbines are the latest to be raised in the Netherlands, you can read more about these turbines here.

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Storing Sunshine Using Flow Batteries

Uncategorized / July 17, 2007 / 2 Comments

Flow batteries are a unique kind of battery — they have tanks that hold hundreds of gallons of the chemicals, called electrolytes. Flow batteries just happen to be very good at storing solar or wind power. Renewable power sources suffer from being intermittent, and less reliable for continuous power supply than coal or gas. Neither

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45% Renewable Energy For Germany By 2030

Uncategorized / July 5, 2007 / 1 Comment

Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on a renewable energy law passed in 2000 showed that the country had already surpassed the quota of

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German Town Will Soon Use 100% Renewable Power

Uncategorized / April 29, 2007 / 17 Comments

There’s a small town in Germany called Dardesheim, that relies almost entirely on renewable sources for its energy needs. The town’s goal is to use 100% renewable power, and become known as German’s “Town of Renewable Energies”. Dardesheim already has some huge wind turbines in place, and many solar roofs installed. Last year they installed

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100% Renewable Power For Durango City, Colorado

Uncategorized / April 13, 2007 / Leave a Comment

The city of Durango will soon be powered by 100% renewable energy (we believe that wind power will be used). Green power currently constitutes about 10% of city power purchases. The extra the city pays for green energy will add about $120,000 a year to its electrical bill officials said. But the extra cost will

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Delaware May Become Home To The Largest Wind Park In The U.S.

Uncategorized / March 31, 2007 / 1 Comment

Delaware may become home to the largest wind power plant in the United States. A wind energy developer, Bluewater Wind, hopes to build a 600-megawatt wind park in the waters just off Delaware’s coast. The wind park would power 130,000 homes for over 20 years, at price cheaper than coal or gas, according to Bluewater

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Danish Island Is Energy Self-Sufficient

Uncategorized / March 29, 2007 / 11 Comments

The goal of the Danish island of Samso, home to about 4000 people, is to power their island with completely green power. They heat their homes with grass burned in a central heating system. Their electric come from the wind, and they power their vehicles on biofuel which they also grow. Since 1998, Samso began

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