I came across the inspiring story of William Kamkwamba, African inventor and co-author of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, a few days ago on Twitter. Since then, I couldn’t stop thinking about the difficulties and disadvantages this man faced trying to put his idea into reality in his village in Malawi, Africa.

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Last year, we were all thrilled by the introduction of the innovative Mcgyan® Biodiesel Process to produce biodiesel. Today, Nick Chambers at Gas 2.0, reports that the developers of the process, Ever Cat Fuels, has just opened its biodiesel plant in Isanti, Minnesota capable of producing 3 million gallons (MGY) of diesel fuel every year, [...]

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One of our more popular stories last week was about China taking the leadership on renewables development and overtaking the United States as the world’s largest clean energy market. We waited for an answer and it wasn’t long in coming. Who else would take the cudgels for the US but our own energy capital, the [...]

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America invented the renewable energy industry but China is surging ahead with its renewables program and is on track to overtake the US as the world’s largest market for new wind power installations. A study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and China’s Tsinghua University suggests that the Chinese will be able to meet all [...]

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Plastic waste into fuel? (Photo: Envion)
If you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you know that plastic recycling is one of the environmental initiatives that we support in this site. That’s why when I came across this news about a company that proposes to convert plastic waste into fuel, I simply couldn’t contain [...]

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The “Algaeus” (Photo: Ariel Schwartz)
Right on the heels of our story on algae-based batteries, is this latest gem in algae-related research: the first ever algae-powered car will do a cross-country trek from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

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The algae, Cladophora, has long been considered a nuisance in many communities, notably along the Great Lakes coastlines, where large amounts of rotting algae have been fouling the shorelines. Recent developments in alternative energy research, however, may change people’s perception of this organism.

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Recession has undeniably dealt a devastating economic blow to almost every town and city in America. And nowhere is the economic difficulty more deeply felt than in auto-manufacturing towns in the north. One of these towns is  Wixom, in Michigan, where a Ford plant used to employ 3,000 people making Lincolns and Continentals – until [...]

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