With the feds approval of the nations first offshore wind energy project in Massachusetts Nantucket Sound, the jobs will be coming soon. There are already wind energy businesses that have started construction in the state. A federally funded facility where workers will test wind turbine blades is under construction in Charlestown. Vestas Wind Systems, based [...]
Wave goodbye to more money headed for China. We are sure that you and probably everyone in the U.S. has heard about green jobs that are going to play a large part in bringing our economy back. Remember when Bush in his earlier years as president said yeah we will lose some lo tech manufacturing [...]
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says that wind turbines placed off the east coast could replace most of the coal fired power plants in the USA. Ocean winds could generate 1 million megawatts which is about equal to 3,000 medium sized coal fired power plants. We already have the technology to build the wind turbines and [...]
During the Bush administration it was stall stall stall on protecting the environment. You would here statements like if we try to get cleaner air it would be bad for the economy. Guess what he did nothing to help clean up our act and look what happened to the economy! With Dictator Bush it was [...]
Al Gore is optimistic about solar energy and it seems pretty accurate, too. “A technology called concentrating solar thermal is now becoming very competitive,” Gore said at a Jan. 28, 2009, hearing. He also pointed out that if we took an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, [...]
MIT undergrads have created a shock absorber that not only smoothes out the ride but generates electricity as well! The shock absorber would harness energy from the small bumps in the road. Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using [...]
A town of only about 1300 people Rock Port Missouri has earned some big time bragging rights. Rock Port now produces 123% of it’s power needs from wind! The first in the USA to do so. The massive wind turbines are 250 ft tall with a blade span of 90 ft. We hope this will [...]
If you do a lot of driving (not short distance hops) a grease car might be for you. These cars run on vegetable oil but they start and stop on diesel, hence the technology is not optimized or recommended for short distance driving. Once you car is converted you might spend an extra hour or [...]
The United States Saturday voiced “serious concerns” about a deal reached at the UN climate conference in Bali, emphasizing the need for major developing countries to be included in greenhouse gas emissions targets. In a statement following the end of the global conference, where the United States found itself isolated in battling against new emissions [...]
