Article Archive for November 2008
There are eighteen great tips on how to green your home at the end of this article, but first what is a green home?
A Green Home is a house built to minimise negative impact on …
Michael Meacher, Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton, and former UK environment minister 1997-2003, in an article for the Guardian newspaper, warns of the dangers of cheap crude oil.
Now that the price of a …
A parody of James Bond’s Goldfinger, the film is called Coalfinger and highlights the danger of new coal fired power stations being built.
Graveson Green, the 007 star of the film, reminds us in a humorous …
American Honda Motor Company, Inc. introduced its all-new Micro-sized Combined Heat and Power (MCHP) Deluxe cogeneration unit last week at the US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Honda …
3 ton slinky loop - image credit: Mark Johnson
Geothermal heating, in which hot underground water is used to heat a building, and geothermal power, in which steam from very hot underground rock (more than 300 …
The Utah State Office for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) earlier this month posted the proposed list of parcels for the geothermal lease sale scheduled for Dec. 19 in Salt Lake City.
The list includes …
A new high voltage Li-ion battery system designed to improve the stability of power distribution grids has been developed by Saft and ABB. The new system combines dynamic energy storage provided by Saft’s 5.2 kV …
St. Peter’s Basilica at Early Morning. Image credit: Andreas Tille
As part of its efforts to become the world’s first carbon neutral state, the Vatican has completed installation of a 5,000 square meter rooftop solar array.
Located …
The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, has unveiled a solar power plan for the city that the LA Times calls ‘ambitious’. The plan calls for the city to get 1,280 MW of power from …
Each year, the US produces about four billion metric tons of waste which has about half the energy content as the same weight of coal. Bill Davis and his company, Ze-Gen, has found a way …
