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A Great Geothermal Design Is Running at Low Source Temperatures

January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

Gwen Holdmann has answered her community’s call for a solution for the rise in oil prices with her own ingenuity and common sense. When the local electrical generators daily diesel costs at $1,000 and the local grid 32 miles away across the Alaska wilderness, the investment for a geothermal answer looked especially good. The problem [...]

Jan

30

Fact Checking the LEDs and Compact Fluorescents That Will Replace Your Light Bulbs

January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Nothing is so alarming than a government mandate to force you to do something. The latest Energy Bill out of the U.S. Congress and signed by the President does just that – cancels the availability of the familiar incandescent bulb and for the most part consigns them to the junk bin of history. Right off [...]

Jan

29

More Efficiency From the Solar Panel to the Grid

January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments

Solar photovoltaic panels that may be in the affordable range and what is expected to be shipping soon are not great efficiency tools for getting the solar energy into electrical potential. As it improves the next step of inverting the panels direct current into the commonly used alternating current has received an upgrade in technology. [...]

Jan

28

Checking the Facts on Competition of the Shipping CIGSSe Solar Panels

January 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

While the U.S. investment community is all stirred up by the photovoltaic solar thin films said to be coming to market, a design out of South Africa by Vivian Alberts working at the University of Johannesburg is “in the box” now in Europe. The solar panel competition is heating up. The CIGSSe panels are reputed [...]

Jan

25

A Sign of the Times to Come

January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

On Wednesday PFC Energy released their latest list of 50 top capitalized “energy companies.”  For the first time a non petroleum company made the list.  And not just barely either, Iberdrola came in at number 36 ahead of such notables as Halliburton, Hess (Formerly known as Amereda Hess), and Anadarko.  Remarkable.  Astonishing.  Very pleasing. Before [...]

Jan

24

Does It Hurt Enough Yet?

January 24, 2008 | 11 Comments

Are the world’s largest consumers of oil products feeling the oil price stress enough to adapt or has living large gotten to be such an important personal identity prize that U.S. consumers will plunge on driving the oil market to higher prices? There are suggestions offered that the fueling costs are close to being at [...]

Jan

23

Big Yellow Hybrid School Buses?

January 23, 2008 | 4 Comments

Now they’re on site in Iowa, at Sigourney Community School District and Nevada Community School District. At work since January 3rd, the news broke last week from Iowa State University which is studying the performance on behalf of Advanced Energy, a non profit based in Raleigh, N.C. The Iowa buses are two of 19 scattered [...]

Jan

22

Reality Check on Lithium Batteries Enhanced with Nano Silicon Wire Anodes

January 22, 2008 | 6 Comments

Lithium Ion batteries have a reputation of heating and cooling over the course of their charge and discharge cycles. With several new chemical innovations in trial for improving the activity in Lithium-ion batteries as the heating issue is addressed, one stands out not for the control of the heating and potential trouble that causes, but [...]

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