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Oil Industry out of US Energy Future
President Obama’s sensible and encouraging first step in ensuring that the BP oil spill disaster can never happen again – but the “never” will only last for the next six months while his commission reaches a conclusion. The President went some way towards exposing the root cause of this disaster in highlighting the oil industry’s [...]
Continue reading...Is America Exporting Part of Its Chance for Energy Independence?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
America’s number one export by volume isn’t something manufactured by an American company – it’s scrap paper, metal, and plastics that Americans are recycling every day at home and work. When we export all of those recyclables to China and other nations, we are giving up part of the solution to reducing America’s reliance on [...]
Continue reading...Cheaper Materials Could Be Key To Low-Cost Solar Cells
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, according to a new study from the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National [...]
Continue reading...Huge wind power project planned in Kenia
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Lake Turkana Wind Power consortium (LTWP) has announced plans to supply 300 megawatts of green power to Kenya’s mains electricity grid by taking advantage of a unique wind resource in Northwest Kenya near Lake Turkana. Using the latest wind turbine technology LTWP can provide reliable and continuous clean power to satisfy up to 30% of [...]
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Friday, May 28, 2010
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