CleanTechnica » geothermal http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Chile’s Mineral Industry Is Mining Renewable Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/20/chiles-mineral-industry-mining-renewable-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/20/chiles-mineral-industry-mining-renewable-energy/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2014 07:00:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76598 Originally published on The Conversation. By John Mathews Mining is the fourth-largest energy consumer in Australia, using roughly 10% of Australia’s total. Some of this comes from the electricity grid — but much is supplied offgrid in the form of diesel and other fossil fuels. Could some of this be replaced by renewable sources? Recently

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/solar-decathlon-technology-spotlight-heat-pumps/feed/ 4 New DOI Plan For California Desert Renewables http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/24/new-doi-plan-california-desert-renewables/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/24/new-doi-plan-california-desert-renewables/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:15:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72325 At a wind farm near Palm Springs yesterday, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented the department’s long-awaited plans for both multi-energy renewables development and conservation within 22.5 million acres of the Mojave and other Southern California deserts. More than half the land lies within San Bernardino County. The rest is distributed among six

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/14/investing-africa-climate-adaptation-also-aids-development/feed/ 19 Running It All On Clean Energy: “A Question Of Social And Political Will” http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/25/running-clean-energy-question-social-political-will/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/25/running-clean-energy-question-social-political-will/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:10:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=63023 Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow Mark Jacobson says the United States has the technology and logistical ability to convert to all-renewable energy sources by 2050—if we can manage to exercise the social and political will to do so. He’s the guy who told David Letterman we already have enough wind to power the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/25/running-clean-energy-question-social-political-will/feed/ 9 NREL: 23% Of Global Electricity Generation Supplied By Renewable Sources http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/03/nrel-23-global-electricity-generation-supplied-renewable-sources/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/03/nrel-23-global-electricity-generation-supplied-renewable-sources/#comments Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:45:15 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60818 Originally published on 1Sun4All. The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) released a report — 2012 Renewable Energy Data Book — in October of 2013 regarding the status of renewable energy globally and in the US. The report has an abundance of great charts and, in reading through the pages, I discovered that renewable energy accounts for 23% of all electricity generation worldwide

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