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The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress

Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...

Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

(Photos: From coal mine to wind farm)

(Photos: From coal mine to wind farm)summing it all upGreat piece. I love how this story sums up the evolution of power generation. Thanks.

Tags: wind farm, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Photos: From coal mine to wind farm

CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the Glenrock Wind Farm, the first such project to be built on the site of a former coal mine, on Road Trip 2009. by CNET News.com

Tags: Coal, Wind Farm, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-23

Baryonyx to build largest offshore wind farms in U.S., power Tier 4 data centers

Energy start-up Baryonyx has won bids for three land leases from Texas to build Tier 4 data centers powered primarily by wind farms. The company's leases include two offshore sites in the Gulf of Mexico and one on land...

Tags: Data Center, Texas, Lease, Wind Farm, Baryonyx, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Politics of climate change overhwelming the science?

As it looks more and more like the U.S. government might actually take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, the proponents and opponents of any action are getting more strident. The politics are getting more brutal. President Obama is hosting a conference on global warming...

Tags: Spain, Wind Farm, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-28

Short-Term Prediction of Wind Farm Power: A Data Mining Approach

This paper examines time series models for predicting the power of a wind farm at different time scales, i.e., 10-min and hour-long intervals. The time series models are built with data mining algorithms. Five different data mining algorithms have been tested on various wind farm datasets. Two of the five...

Tags: Algorithm, Wind Farm, Time Series Model, Support Vector Machine Regression Algorithm, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Engineering, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-01

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...

Tags: Turbine, Spain, Wind Farm, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?

Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?Wind farm?So let me get this right, they are going to put in a Wind farm when the electrical grid cannot use it?What a WASTE of money and the entire deal is just stupid.The wind farm is a environment eye sore and it...

Tags: wind farm

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

My weekend wildlife sighting: Wind turbines in action

My weekend wildlife sighting: Wind turbines in actionA Consumption Ethic?I live near the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and like to hike and ski out near the edge of the property. Since we moved to the valley below the wind farm has become a favorite spot to...

Tags: turbine, wind farm, Wind turbine

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updateswindso what happens when the wind stops blowing?i see you still have not got an honest job!Keep an eye on KansasKeep an eye on KS - a governor up for election is pushing hard on creating more wind farms as part of...

Tags: wind farm, wind energy

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Additional Resources

A flip of the on switch: Utah wind project goes online

Seems wasteful to send the energy 2 states away...Very cool to see a big wind farm come online, but most of that energy is going to be wasted on transmission line leakage by the time it gets to California. We really need to get to the point of highly-localized power...

Tags: power generation

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

A flip of the on switch: Utah wind project goes online

Utah wind farm will power 45,000 in southern California with clean wind energy. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Utah, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-11

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?

Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...

Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-18

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...

Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Cleantech draws more investments in Q3

Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...

Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

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...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?Yet another doom and gloom article?I swear.... there have been many species that have gone extinct in the history of the world, and no one worried about them!Stop taking a bunch of species dying out as a sign that humanity is doing something to...

Tags: Dragonfly, biplane, green technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-26

Is $400 billion a lot of money?

Is $400 billion a lot of money?Breaking evenSo if US were to spend more money on achieving energy independence, how much time will be needed to break-even? For example, if the US spends $400 billion each year towards energy independence and achieves it in two years and then it...

Tags: Qannadda

Discussion threads 2009-07-24