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- Midwest tech firm now wind driven
- Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Windmills stir up opposition
- In many parts of the U.S. you can't simply put up a windmill to generate electricity for your own use. Grandpa may have used one to pump water out on the farm, but now it's NIMBY time. After all, one of them might topple over and kill the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Ohmygawd, energy surplus!
- Look out, folks, we are now going to have to comprehend TOO MUCH ENERGY. Spain's wind farms were confident that they'd have a good year in 2009. More turbines are to be erected, giving them a slightly larger share of the Euro-energy market. But now Spain's wind farms...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?
- More tax breaks for alternative energy could be in the offing. And one of the largest wind farms in planning stage awaits a Presidential yay or nay. A House committee has just approved a $20 billion dollar alternative energy package. Much of that money would go for...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- H2O + C = cool idea
- Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Wind is picking up speed
- A study coming from Emerging Energy Research projects continued expansion of the wind energy market. It's being led by installations in China and the U.S. says EER. Global investment in wind energy was about $8 billion in 2004, now its expected to hit $18...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Two small countries thinking big, and green
- Two small nations on opposite sides of the globe are building world class renewable energy proejcts. In Portugal they're constructing what will become, temporarily at least, the largest solar generating plant on earth. It's going into eastern Portugal near the town of Moura. This photovoltaic farm is...
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Hey, Toto, maybe we should be in Kansas? In Maryland wind turbines get banned!
- Energy companies and entire countries seem to blow hot and cold on wind energy. Three years ago the German government's energy ministry said wind was too expensive. Better to simply conserve energy. Yet figures show Germany continues to expand its use of wind for generating electricity. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study
- Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- No clear sailing for wind power
- Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- That whooshing sound could be the start of something electric
- Wind into electricity. Sounds nifty and clean. There are issues about what the blades do to flying animals. Government agencies here and in other countries are staryting to deal with that. But other serious issues have come from the engineering costs and barriers. Now a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Chasing smoke with lasers
- A research team at Johns Hopkins is trying to find out about wind turbines. Not how they work, but what do they do while they're working. How do they affect wind currents and possibly even local weather? They're using smoke, a wind tunnel lasers...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- More oil from old wells and more electricity from the wind
- Crude prices have fallen from their record levels. Apparently the wise folk on Wall Street now think Turkey will not attack ther Kurdish area of Iraq. Still, crude prices are in the $85 range and many renewable energy prodeucers think they can compete as long as oil is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Woooooosh
- Wind. Air moving energetically across the face of the Earth. Air moving sailing ships, turning windmills, forming sand into dunes, snow into drifts. Now it's wind as source of electricity. Needless to say green tech uses of wind are far advanced in countries other than in the...
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
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- Ford says you can afFORD their fuel-savers
- Hybrids are not inexpensive cars. Ford says they're making a major leap forward for the old-fashioned, cheaper gas-guzzler. Make it sip less per mile. They call their new engineering "EcoBoost," no marketing slouches they. EcoBoost technology is now available in Ford and Lincoln vehicles...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- News to know: Windows 7; Swine flu; Facebook; SOA
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Zack Whittaker: Tech-take on the spread of swine flu. Techmeme Ed Bott: What you need to know about the Windows 7 Release Candidate ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Moving on offshore
- President Obama moved toward more exploitation of America's offshore energy resources. Only this time it's not drill, baby, drill. It's about wind and waves. Obama made his announcement at a former Maytag plant in Iowa, a plant now being turned into a wind-turbine tower plant....
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
- Here's a map that purports to show how much oil there is in North America and that the supply far exceeds the demand. This website argues greed is driving the high oil price, not shortage. Wait a minute, isn't greed the heart and soul of a free makret...
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Texas oilman strikes blow for wind, predicts ever higher oil prices
- T. Boone Pickens has made a little money in the oil business. According to Forbes in 2007 Pickens was one of the 117th richest people in America, worth about $3 bills, in as in billions. That's only about one-fourth of what he reportedly intends to invest in wind...
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
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