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Thanks Clean Energy! U.S Power Plant Emissions Down
An analysis of 2010 emissions data from the top 100 US power producers illustrates the positive impact of the industry’s ongoing transition to natural gas and renewable energy sources. Although carbon dioxide power plant emissions rose 24% are up over the benchmark year (1990), they were off 4% from 2008-2010, and preliminary data suggests they [...]
Energy Efficiency: Is It The Real Deal?
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), peak electric loads in the U.S. are 20,800 MW lower than they would be without utility energy efficiency programs[1]. If it is correct it represents perhaps 100 power plants that did not need built that would have otherwise been required. Similarly, the EIA data shows that electric usage [...]
Bangladesh Hits 1 Million Solar Systems Milestone
In one of the poorest countries on the planet a renewable energy service company is installing one thousand solar home systems – a day. Not in its capital or busy urban centers, but where 80 percent of the population lives – in rural Bangladesh. The company, Grameen Shakti, literally translates as rural energy. By the [...]
World Habitat Day 2010
The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. This year the day falls on October 4. The day isintended to remind the world of its collective responsibility for thefuture of the human habitat. After floods, fires and recordbreaking temperatures in 2010, human habitation has become an even [...]
The Passive Solar Habitat from Aaron Beyers
Architect Aaron Beyers has conceptualized a sustainable housingsolution to educate those less familiar with concepts of green livingand being able to co-exist with the natural environment. Utilizingpassive solar housing techniques, the sustainable dwelling takesadvantage of sun’s energy for heating and illumination. The architects aim to create the building from recycled materialssuch as salvaged steel from [...]
Self-sufficient solar capsule looks like a lunar habitat for Earth
Recently we saw researchers at the Paragon Space Development Corporation develop a greenhouse that could be used to feed lunar astronauts on moon-grown veggies, and today we have a self-sufficient solar-powered capsule that looks inspired by NASA’s lunar habitat. Designed by Menno Kroezen and Ross Lovegrove, the inventor of the stunning solar-powered trees, the Solar [...]