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In yet another indication that the days of king coal are numbered, another coal-fired power plant in the U.S. is converting to biomass. Michigan’s L’Anse Warden Electric Company purchased an existing coal, oil, and natural gas power plant and promptly made the switch in order to engage in some sustainable synergy with a nearby manufacturing [...]
The desire to avoid solar confrontations with neighbors could have an effect on architectural design. Here’s how one Southern California homeowner solved that on a new home in San Diego: he hid the panels behind a parapet. California has already had a law on the books for three decades: The California Solar Rights Act made [...]
As Copenhagen nears, the companies in the fossil energy industry that will be actually impacted by the climate bill are still not reporting their climate change risks, according to the Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security. Climate-related disclosure “continues to be weak or altogether nonexistent in SEC filings of global [...]
The largest working hydro-electric wave energy device was launched by Queen’s University Belfast, Aquamarine Power Ltd. and the Scottish government recently, bringing the global wave energy industry one major move forward. The device is called Oyster. It is the only hydro-electric wave energy device producing power in the world, according to Queens University Belfast. How [...]
GE and coal power plant operator Shenhua Group are among three pairs of companies who have inked deals to create joint ventures to build cleaner coal technology plants in China. The $150 million joint venture will be shared between the two biggest carbon emitters in the world under a low carbon energy initiative agreed to [...]
On Friday the California Public Utilities Commission approved a new 500 Kilovolt transmission line from desert areas deep in southeastern California where numerous solar projects have been signed, to urban centers on the coast. As originally submitted the line was to have also carried electrons from sunny Arizona deserts too, but the project is having [...]
The world’s first demonstration facility for the large scale production of Amazonian “dark soil” is under construction in Hengstbacherhof, Germany. Dark soil, also known as terra preta, is a manmade, ultra-fertile soil that was first developed thousands of years ago in Amazon communities. The buzz about terra preta is its potential as a carbon sink, [...]
