China’s Envision to establish wind blade centre in US
Envision Energy, the Chinese wind group, will establish a blade innovation centre in Boulder, Colorado, to be led by Kevin Standish – formerly chief engineer of blades at Siemens Wind in the US.
Green Cars in 2015 (Infographic)
Electric Cars | Hybrid Cars | TransportationConsidering a green car? These days it makes a lot of sense but there are so many options; electric, hybrid, hydrogen and even solar. One day soon we’ll all be driving one, so how do we choose? And if we don’t have a green car, what can you we do to help the environment in […]
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- January 13, 2016
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Fishing vessel transformed into a wave power plant
Researchers are demonstrating that it is possible for a redundant fishing vessel to be used as a power plant. The first vessel of its kind is now anchored offshore in the Stadthavet area west in Norway, with the aim of generating electricity from the natural forces of the sea.
Wearable energy generator uses urine to power wireless transmitter
A pair of socks embedded with miniaturized microbial fuel cells and fueled with urine pumped by the wearer’s footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a PC. This is the first self-sufficient system powered by a wearable energy generator based on microbial fuel cell technology.
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- January 13, 2016
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Bigwigs have big ideas for cutting our food waste in half
People are spectacularly good at throwing things away — recyclables, dreams, reputations (lookin’ at you, Ben Carson) all come to mind. And then there’s the mother of all landfill fillers: food. Up to 40 percent of food in the U.S., for example, is wasted. But Thursday sounded a new rallying cry: Two initiatives — both announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — aim to target humanity’s tendency to throw away the stuff that keeps us alive. The first, dubbed Champions 12.3, is run by a patchwork coalition of 30 heavy-hitters from the likes of Nestlé, WWF, Unilever, and the African Union. The coalition, which aims to cut global food waste in half and reduce food loss by 2030, is named after U.N. Sustainable…
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- January 13, 2016
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Wind Project Development: From a Legal Perspective
Recently, Alan Anderson and I were thrilled to be invited to present to a class at the Washburn University Law School. For those of you that don’t know, Washburn has developed a truly exceptional energy and oil & gas law program (something that I dearly wish I could have had in law school), thanks in large part to the efforts of Prof. David Pierce. When Prof. Pierce’s invites us to do just about anything, we usually jump at the chance. For this presentation, our goal was to provide a high-level but fairly comprehensive overview of the types of legal issues that arise during the main stages of a wind project’s design, construction and operation phases. Interestingly, after we sat down to plan out …
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- January 13, 2016
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Storing solar energy underground for a cloudy day
A common criticism of a total transition to wind, water and solar power is that the US electrical grid can’t affordably store enough standby electricity to keep the system stable. Now a researcher proposes an underground solution to that problem.
