News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Energy of the Future: Conservation + Renewable Energy

Green house emission has been the headlines for several years. In the heart of the news-lines lies the main catalyst for this alarming topic of global climate change, fossil fuel. Seemingly, our voracious demand for energy is spurring prices to new heights and CO2 even beyond accepted ecological parameters. Global energy consumption is currently approximately [...]

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Interesting Facts about Renewable Energy (Water, Geothermal and Bio-Energy): Part 1

This article provides a few interesting facts related to sources of renewable energy like water, geothermal and bio-energy. The potential of renewable energy is phenomenal. Water (as a source of energy) There is a vast depository of water on the earth surface. Did you know? 1. Water is the most known sources of renewable energy, [...]

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Alternative Energy Is an Integrated Part of Sustainable Development – Invest In Renewable Energy Now -

The trend is towards eco-friendly developments. However, the reason for going green is not solely ecological. There are stronger indicators forcing us to indulge in renewable technology, one particular factor is the depletion of fossil fuel. There is also a rising world demand for energy. The supply of energy cannot be sustained through natural gas [...]

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Obama’s Introduction of Clean Energy Slower than Expected

Recently (15th of June) related to BP oil spill, Obama did not address the issue of American’s addition to fossil fuels he rather emphasised on political damage control. We can say that Obama’s mythology or rather misinformation about America becoming a clean energy nation via solar, biomass and wind energy might take more than decades [...]

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Ways to Encourage Governmental Support for Solar Power

Those who are interested in solar power will certainly be looking for subsidies, grants, feed-in tariffs and other governmental support that bring the cost of installing solar power down. Homeowners are already benefiting from lucrative subsidies in some countries. This has been triggered through growing global pressures over the concern of limited fossil fuels. Consequently, [...]

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US Largest Wind Farm Will Be Worth $1.2 Billion

A total of 1.2 billion dollar has been readily secured by Terra-Gen Power, to construct the largest wind farm in the United States of America. This sum of money will be enough to supplement a total of 570 MW of new energy capacity to the Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California. The total [...]

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Global Investment Trends in Green Energy Unveiled In Recent Reports (2010)

Investment in clean energy remains strong despite the tough recession. Renewable is constantly expanding in most countries. The past year, 2009, marked the subsequent second year in a row carrying a higher expansion capacity in renewable sources of energy like solar and wind in comparison to gas, coal and nuclear energy. This was published in [...]

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Floating Wind Turbines – Stable and Useful According To Researchers

Among the various types of renewable energy, wind energy is considered to be among the best ones. However, as the turbines increase in size, they also tend to get noisier, becoming more and more of an eyesore as well as needing increasingly bigger expanses of land. In such circumstances there is one solution; making use [...]

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Making the most of energy efficiency and alternative energy

Conventional energy sources like gas and oil will stay indispensable in order to meet the global demand in the anticipated future. However, taking into consideration the limited nature of these resources and their undesirable effect on the environment, there is presently a pressing and mounting need to reflect on the possibilities of how man can [...]

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Abu Dhabi – Constructing A City with No Carbon and Waste

There is a new eco-city that is being constructed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which will be known as the Masdar City. The city will be the very first clean technology city in the world that will completely rely on renewable energy sources and which will be free from skyscrapers, cars and waste. The [...]

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