Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
News organisations worldwide have been waking up to the potential of a noiseless, vibration-free, roof-mounted turbine. The device plugs directly into the home grid, it will retail at around £1,500 and promises to repay that in electricity savings to the average household in the first three years of its 20-year guaranteed life.
“Nuclear power has run out of steam.” That was prime minister Göran Persson’s conclusion earlier this month when the government announced the decommissioning next year of the Barsebäck 2 nuclear plant. A survey has now shown that most Swedish people think that Sweden should continue to use the nuclear power plants currently in use.
The Spanish wind industry is planning to grow up to 20 to 30,000 MW installed power and they are seeking for offshore platforms, a possible indication that the best fields are reaching a peak in the country.
Experts say we’re about to run out of oil. But we’re nowhere near having another technology ready to take its place.
Soaring oil prices have convinced governments of the need for a change in energy technology – the race to build wave and tidal stream machines is on.
At least nine provinces will face frequent power cuts this winter, the State Development and Reform Commission warned Monday.
Hastings Mesa, a rural US town in the San Juan Mountains is fighting to stay off the electricity grid. This low energy testbed community is under threat just as long term energy crises begin to loom on the horizon.
The presidential candidates are touting their plans to reduce the USA’s reliance on foreign energy sources. Are the campaign promises simply running on empty?
While politicians in Washington appear to be making little headway in breaking the nation’s addiction to imported oil, California has made some real progress with innovative policies.
THE wild Atlantic sound that divides the Hebridean islands of Harris and North Uist may be bridged for the first time by a £30m structure that harnesses the power of the waves to produce electricity.
Renewable energy works almost solely on the basis of using local resources, and can’t contribute efficiently to a grid in the quantities desired. What Amory Lovins knows, deep down, is that the peak of oil extraction globally will not allow for a transition to a less-intensive energy diet. His plan would have made sense three decades ago, perhaps, when global warming seemed just a theory.
TDP turns just about anything into oil and fertilizer. And when I say “anything,” I mean that: animal waste, medical waste, human waste. Used diapers, used computers, used tires. Anything that’s not radioactive can be tossed into the hopper.
