News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Is Solar Power Really Getting Cheaper?

Incentives meant to entice more users toward solar power appear to be doing something right. There has been an increase in installations across America and there has also been a drop in the preliminary costs involved to move to solar power. This according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Apparently, after three years of peaked [...]

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Wave Power, Defense Contractors And Backyard Brilliance

When the U.S. Navy wants something, it usually gets it. In this case, it needs a consistent supply of energy along the countries massive coastlines in order to power their undersea surveillance. Wave energy is just the ticket for the U.S. Navy’s search for a reliable source of power supply and the oceans never stop [...]

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Renewable Energy Projects Threaten Rare Plants

It is projected that California will be building enormous solar power and wind energy ventures on taxpayer acreage located in the California desert and it is feared this will spell the beginning of the end for many of the State of California’s rarest plants.   According to plant experts, the majority of the wind and [...]

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Solar Power Street Lamps

Head down to Tokyo and you will see one of the most graceful and powerful examples of the potential of renewable power. But first, a little bit of background. You know the streetlamps that are outside your home right now? They come on at a certain time of day and they illuminate the street in [...]

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Portable Solar Panels

You may have seen them, houses that have solar panels attached to them. A few years ago they were a novelty, and sometimes mocked by the general public who were less informed than they are now. These days, people know what solar panels are. They are those things that you see stuck to the side [...]

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Solar Powered Drinks Bottle?

Fancy some time in The Great Outdoors? There is nothing like slinging on a backpack and jumping out to head off on the trail. In the good old days there used to be nothing more than a pack, a few essentials and you against the travails of Nature and her beasts. Occasionally this meant that [...]

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Geneva to Get Wind Power?

Geneva, in the United States, is the latest city looking at ways of increasing its sustainable power capacity. The powers that be, however, are not looking too kindly on the options that are being presented to them. The city takes the majority of its power form a company, and some form its own plant on [...]

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Smart Home of the Future

Now we go over to the teams involved in the Solar Decathlon, a competition sponsored by the US Department of Energy. This competition is looking for the very best in renewable energy ideas and projects and pits College teams against each other in an attempt to find the solutions of the future. A number of [...]

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Wind Power Creates Jobs

While wind power is pretty much universally recognised as a valuable resource, and one that will be essential within five to ten years, every now and then some dissenting voices are heard. It seems there is never a shortage of people who are prepared to testify to the fact that wind turbines are ugly, noisy [...]

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Japanese small wind turbines are the perfect choice

Not everyone hates wind turbines. In fact there are some people who positively adore them. These people don’t tend to have them anywhere near their homes though. Okay, we are being a little unfair there. Wind turbines and wind farms are a necessary part of the modern world. They are a key part of the [...]

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