Signing off from his solar- and wind-powered home in Vermont, Ben Hewitt explains why those two alternative energy sources make great companions, and analyzes your best options for living green right now and down the line-how you’ll save money and save the planet.
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The internet has been buzzing with a story that Toyota is working on an electric car (a redesigned Prius) that’s completely powered by solar energy. The story has originated from …
Shocking as it sounds given the meteoric rise of the past few years, oil prices are back to where they were more than four years ago. This puts that back down below the price at …
Disused for more than 30 years, a Dutch mine that once yielded polluting coal has been revived as a source of greener energy, heating household radiators using warm water flooding its abandoned shafts.
Claimed by its …
The Marine Current Turbine SeaGen project in the UK, is the world’s first commercial scale tidal stream turbine. Today it has been reported that the strong tidal flows of Strangford Lough have enabled the turbine …
Connecticut’s solar rebate program is one of the most generous in the United States and because of this is very popular. Since 2005, more than $85 million has been doled out for 815 residential solar …
A new study of the potential for wind energy in Nebraska shows there could be a big jump in jobs if new wind farms are developed in the state.
The report (link to PDF) from the …
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