Scottish Power Renewables has successfully installed the world’s first tidal energy turbine near the island of Eday, one of Orkney’s northern isles. A 100′ tall HS1000 tidal turbine developed by Andritz Hdyro Hammerfest is producing power for more than 500 homes and businesses already, and more are scheduled for installation to complete the tidal energy farm. From [...]
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Triple glazed windows have usually garnered a price tag only palatable by the top 1%. This cost dilemma has made choosing triple pane windows seem almost painful and for this reason many in the past have chosen to stick with double glazing. The argument strongly reasoned that the extra cost for triple glazed windows had [...]
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When most people hear the words “green home” they mostly think of new construction, super-insulated homes. But what about all the homes that are already standing, some for more than a century? In our opinion it’s where the true advancements in energy efficiency can be made, not to mention the potential for starting a wildfire [...]
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Ocean Renewable Power Company of Portland, Maine is set to start construction of it first Tidal Energy System in Cobscook Bay later this month. Securing a federal permit to install Maine’s first go at tidal energy, the project is scheduled to begin mid-month and be online by summer. This first for Maine is a broad leap forward [...]
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Jake Staub and Sonia Barrantes, two veteran former U.S. Navy Test Pilots in Portland, and Chris Corson, of EcoCor Design/Build in Belfast, have embarked on Portland’s first Passive House journey set to break ground in Spring 2012. Partners Jake Staub, formerly of Addison, Illinois, and Sonia Barrantes, formerly of Scarborough, Maine, recently left the Navy in order [...]
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Semprius, a startup company based in Durham, North Carolina, has announced it’s new concentrated solar panel achieves 33.9% efficiency.Semprius’s solar cells use gallium arsenide, rather than silicon, which is able to absorb sunlight and dissipate heat far better. The solar panel that scored this major efficiency record is made up of hundreds of these tiny [...]
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In Linköping, Sweden a world’s first Plantagon greenhouse for urban farming project has begun construction. The Plantagon, a creation of Swedish-American architectural design company Plantagon, is a spherical, vertical greenhouse that solves the need for uniform, sufficient natural light to provide even growth of vertically-farmed plants. The need for ambitious companies like Plantagon to prove concept with [...]
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The largest solar farm in Texas opened on January 6th, 2012. Austin Power officially cut the ribbon on it’s 30 Mega-watt facility that covers over 320 acres of land outside of Austin in Webberville, and put Texas firmly in the lead for solar power production in the U.S. The plant is expected to to produce [...]
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The latest in green news for Texas has ranchers against coal fired plants for electric power because of the drain on the water supply. The state of Texas is having a huge drought problem and many are pushing for building the greenest possible power source Texans have; and that’s wind power. “If you have to increase [...]
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Green news from China; pushing for the smart grid technology is one of the highest priorities for the Chinese government. So much of the development of the country as a whole depends on the success and power of the smart grid technology. Homes, businesses and industry as well as new electric cars are going to [...]
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