Electric vehicles are coming of age, so to speak. Not only are more people these days increasingly and keenly aware of the environmental price of continuing our use of fossil fuels indefinitely into the future, they’re also adapting new technologies to mitigate the nearsightedness of previous years. Hybrids and electric vehicles are becoming commonplace but [...]

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Watch: Waste Management video showing how landfill gas is converted to clean energy.
Few people in this “watch-the-gulf-war-on-cable-TV-at-dinner-time” era have not heard of Raytheon. If you haven’t, how about Patriot missile defense systems?

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As people become more conscious of the need to efficiently manage and save on their energy consumption and as traditional energy sources become more limited, the use of energy saving devices will become more commonplace in households and businesses across America.

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I have two small boys so I’m quite familiar with toy manufacturers in the U.S. Well, Toys “R” Us has just given me one more reason to buy from them. The distribution facility of this giant toy store chain in Wayne, New Jersey is scheduled to be retrofitted with what could be the largest solar [...]

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On May 29th, the largest wind energy conference in the United States will open in Anaheim, California with an estimated 20,000 participants. In 2007, a similar conference drew 5,000 participants. At the time, the cumulative U.S. installed wind capacity was 17 gigawatts. Today, the sector accounts for 2.3 percent of the country’s total energy capacity [...]

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The New York Times recently published a list compiled by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) of the top 10 states with the highest aggregate solar capacity in the United States as of last year (2010). Here’s the entire list:

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We’ve been focusing on alternatives and solutions to fossil fuel-based economy rather than on the acrimonious discussion about the science of global warming and climate change. Personally, I think clean renewable energy is the wave of the future, whether or not you believe in the science, and nations who recognize that today and prepare for [...]

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Texans are world famous for their fondness to do things BIG. In 2009, the largest wind farm in the world (627 wind turbine) at the time opened in Roscoe, Texas. This year, the Lone Star State will be adding another behemoth to its list of oversized trophies.

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The trend towards miniaturization in energy generation and storage continues as researchers from MIT and the technology startup Sun Catalytix unveiled the world’s first practical solar leaf recently during the national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Daniel Nocera, professor of Energy and Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of Sun Catalytix [...]

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These are exciting times indeed in the field of renewable energy – wind, solar, biofuels, etc. The recent developments in solar power underscores the reality of a fluid, ever-evolving technology as well as the absolute need for us to come up with a coherent and rational approach to stimulating growth and harnessing the power of [...]

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