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Road testing at Vermont’s Green Mountain College on a pair of souped-up plug-in Toyota Prius hybrids has found the cars returning better than 100 miles per gallon in daily commuting. At times, one car topped 140 MPG. Steven Letendre (pictured above), economics professor and research scientist at GMC, monitored the travels of his colleague James [...]
Nuclear power is one of the most controversial alternative energies, partially due to the toxic waste it creates. Now physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a system that uses fusion to eliminate the transuranic wastes created by nuclear plants.
A recently completed study from the Department of Energy and Climate Change has concluded that off-shore wind power may be the key to the UK’s energy future. According to the study, 5,000-7,000 new turbines could be built off the coast by 2020. The turbines could generate 25GW of power— the equivalent of 25 large coal-fired [...]
The Clean-Tech Investor Summit is over and the participants have gone home, taking with them impressions about the current state of affairs and forecasts for the year ahead. Arguably the most memorable speech was one by T. Boone Pickens, oil-magnate-turned-clean-energy advocate, on Wednesday. In a speech peppered with anecdotes about politicians and Pickens’ trademark frankness, [...]
Water rises and falls up to 12 yards, twice a day in the Severn Estuary. That’s a lot of potential tidal power going to waste, and the UK knows it. Yesterday, the government announced 5 potential schemes to harness the Severn’s plentiful energy.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has given San Diego-based Science Applications International Corporation a contract to develop an algae-based alternative to petroleum-based jet fuel. The contract could be worth as much as $25 million if all targets are reached. SAIC says there will be two phases to the project. The first will involve [...]
Pittsburgh may be the next center of solar power in the U.S. Yes, that Pittsburgh. On Monday Mayor Luke Ravenstahl held a day-long seminar with planning and development types on the potential for solar power in the Steel City. The mayor said city government will install a solar hot water heating system, a first for [...]
After representing 20% of all solar installs in San Francisco in Q4 2008, 1Block Off the Grid (1BOG) is now running a Los Angeles Solar Campaign. 1BOG began building its solar community in San Francisco (as depicted in the takeover of the map above). The original pilot campaign brought in 184 San Francisco residents who signed up [...]
