News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Province of Ontario Wind Farms Face Legal Action Over Health Concerns

The debate surrounding Ontario’s wind energy program is heating up across the province but one landowner is taking the process to another level. A farmer in Prince Edward County has decided to take the province to court over the plan it has to build wind farms all around the province. Detractors of the provincial governments [...]

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Solar Power Competes For Scarce Water Out West

Western US states are gambling he future of their energy requirements on renewable energy sources that include solar power. Large state sponsored installations are being approved and joint ventures signed and sealed. Though the projects are necessary and probably overdue, they are coming with a price tag that supersedes dollar and cents. The attention to [...]

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Has The World Reached Peak Oil?

As the price of gas rises with no sign of ever going back to moderate prices, the economy is in the tank though with some slight indicators of recovery, the dollar does a dipsey doodle beyond anyone’s ability to predict. Just another day on planet earth or the sign of a coming apocalypse? The pessimist [...]

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Finally! Inexpensive Residential Solar and Wind Power

Many of us are intrigued by the thought of using solar or wind power to reduce the burden on our planet and maybe save us some money in the process but there is a compelling reason why we don’t. Thee renewable energy options are not cost effective for the majority of us and switching to [...]

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Solar Power Attempts To Become Mainstream

Photovoltaic [PV] technology makes use of the abundant energy in the sun by arranging an array of black squared panels into energy accumulators and they are becoming increasingly less expensive all the time. Newer, more efficient designs concentrate the sun’s rays to a specific focal point. As the efficiency of the technology is more improved, [...]

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US Army And Mojave Desert Host 500 Megawatt Solar Power Facility

In keeping with a government mandate to reduce energy consumption, the US army has agreed to terms with Irwin Security Partners to construct a two billion dollar, five hundred megawatt [MW] solar energy power plant based at Fort Irwin and the Mojave desert of California. Via an enhanced use lease [EUL], the Army Corp of [...]

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Solar Energy For Novices

You have quite likely heard of solar energy and the thought of powering something using the sun, as a form of energy sounds really great, especially if it means you can save money. However, those new to solar energy or any alternative energy for that matter, must wonder what all the fuss is about. For [...]

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Defining Biomass Energy As Renewable

In an attempt to cause change, a ‘green’ group is trying to garner enough signatures to their petition so they qualify for a referendum vote on the 2010 State of Massachusetts ballot. They want to see the term ‘renewable’ removed from any biomass energy derivatives overall. One almost hopes the group – Stop Spewing Carbon [...]

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Federal Tax Incentives Saving The Planet One Home At A Time

There are ways and means for the average Joe to try and save the planet and the US government wants to do what it can to help homeowners reduce their carbon footprint. They are offering tax incentives to people who own homes to begin using renewable energy sources to power their daily lives. Barrack Obama [...]

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Do It Yourself Wind Power

How Does DIY Wind Power Model Work? … An arrangement of fan blades is implemented into a tower or installed to your home’s roof.  This structure is meant to accumulate motion producing energy and changing it into electricity for consumption within your home. The blades of the fan are joined to a pipe or shaft [...]

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