Curving tip key to efficient new blade design

A new wind turbine blade being developed in the US uses a gently curving tip to increase the efficiency of electricity generation at low wind speed sites. Sean Ottelwell reports. A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to […]

Iran needs several years to make nuclear fuel – Iran atomic energy agency head

Iran still needs several years to be in a position to manufacture enough nuclear fuel through uranium enrichment for industrial use, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran’s atomic energy agency said. forbes

Indian solar energy project wins world award

The prestigious Energy Globe award for promoting sustainability energy has been won by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for for helping 100,000 people in 18,000 Indian villages finance the purchase domestic solar systems. peopleandplanet

Growing nuclear club

With its billion-plus population and booming economy, India’s plan for the next 20 years reflects much of the developing world’s appetite for secure energy. To meet its galloping demand for power India expects to buy 25 more reactors from Russia, the US and France, as well as build several itself. That alone is about five […]

China is finding it hard to get enough uranium to fuel nuclear plants

China is finding it hard to obtain enough uranium to fuel the nuclear power reactors it plans to build, according to the country’s top energy official. The comments by Chen Deming, a vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, came just months after China signed a deal with Australia giving it access to […]

Oil industry problems could affect gas prices

The oil market is as tight as it has been in a long time and it does not have any wiggle room, either on the crude oil supply, which provides the raw material for gasoline, or the refining side, which actually produces and distributes gasoline. “We are driving a car with worn out shock absorbers […]

India: Global warming will devastate coast: expert

Towns and cities along India’s eastern coast will be devastated with global warming intensifying cyclones and rising sea levels eroding vast stretches of the shoreline, a climate official said yesterday. Experts warn that as temperatures rise, the Indian subcontinent – home to about one-sixth of humanity – will be badly hit with more frequent and […]

Global warming is the new cold war

Fears for the planet Earth — and a determination to save it — are shaping a new generationFor many children and young adults, global warming is the atomic bomb of today. Fears of an environmental crisis are defining their generation in ways that the Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam and the Cold War’s lingering […]

Abe, Bush to work on post-Kyoto strategy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President George W Bush are set to agree in their summit next week to boost cooperation to fight global warming beyond the 2012 timeframe set under the Kyoto Protocol, Japanese government sources say. The envisioned agreement will be included in a joint document to be announced after the […]

Is There Really an Energy Crisis?

The authors of the Cato analysis assert that (1) the notion of ‘peak oil’ depletion of existing and future undiscovered reserves of oil is a myth. This is based on what they determined is “scant evidence and dubious models of how the oil market responds to scarcity.” That is very good news. The report repeats […]

Pricey oil won’t hurt Asia: Experts

Despite the current high oil prices, Asian economies will continue to book high growth and drive the world’s economy with their massive resources, according to experts attending the Boao Forum for Asia here. Kim Tai Yoo, chair professor of techno-economics at Seoul National University said the current level of oil prices would still be affordable […]

A world without oil, in a game

A San Jose designer is trying to solve a crisis before it can happen.In a matter of days, gas prices will skyrocket, a dwindling food supply will rot, and the oil crisis will literally stop Americans in their tracks. How can you and your loved ones survive a crippling breakdown?Log in to “World Without Oil,” […]

Pies in the Sky: A Solution to Global Warming?

Angel suggests that the shield, covering an area of 4.7 million square kilometers (slightly smaller than the area of the continental United States west of the Mississippi River), would be best made as a cloud of 16 trillion free-flying circular refractors, each 0.6 meter (2 feet) in diameter. . Each refractor would be about 5 […]

Building a wall around oil

Two news reports from Iraq caught attention this week with ominous consequences. First, we learned that American military units were building a three-mile-long wall to separate one of Baghdad’s Sunni enclaves from surrounding Shiite neighbourhoods, ostensibly to provide for sorely needed security. Second, a scientific study concluded that Iraq’s oil reserves could be twice as […]

New wave of multinationals poses competitive threat to U.S.

From Brazil, Embraer has become a big supplier of regional jets in the airline industry. Other Brazilian companies, like Braskem, Embraco and Natura, are also expanding in a variety of global markets. Russian companies like Gazprom, Lukoil and Rusal are using Russia’s natural resources to leap into the United States and other countries. India is […]

Four Futures for the Earth

And there really isn’t a bigger or more complicated problem right now than the incipient climate disaster. Today, there seems to be two schools of thought regarding the best way to deal with global warming: the “act now” approach, demanding (in essence) that we change our behavior and the ways that our societies are structured, […]

New York Mayor Presents PlaNYC for a More Sustainable New York

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose Earth Day to present a package of 127 initiatives designed to achieve the sustainability goals that he had outlined in December 2006, including reducing carbon emissions by 30% by 2030. greencarcongress

Evaluating Powertrain and Alternative Fuel Options for China

GM has begun the process of a Well-to-Wheels evaluation of alternative powertrains and fuels for light duty vehicles in the context of the Chinese market, with an emphasis on those alternative fuels that have the potential to play a major role in the country, including: M10, M85, E10, E85, DME, and CTL. greencarcongress

Prep for peak oil

Pittsburgh should follow Portland’s example and get ready for the end of the fossil-fuel era What issues are critical to Pittsburgh’s future — now that we’ve kept the Penguins? Merging county and city governments? Economic development? Shedding the “Smoky City” brand? Improved ethnic relations? Equality of opportunity? Transportation infrastructure? Innovations at universities and medical centers? […]

Carter had a powerful energy idea

Thirty years ago this month, a solemn Jimmy Carter sat behind the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office to announce to a prime-time national television audience his new comprehensive energy plan. In the most memorable line of the evening, the president declared the challenge of energy “the moral equivalent of war.” The Carter energy […]

Companies jumping on Earth Day wagon

Experts warn some businesses are not very environmental Green is blue, politically speaking, but even Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says green is sexy. And if the ever-growing list of companies jumping on the bandwagon is any indication, green is good marketing. As environmental activism becomes more mainstream and Earth Day approaches Sunday, businesses throughout the […]

How one man showed them the light

Brilliant! Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology By Bob Johnstone Prometheus Books, $28, 336 pages How many people does it take to change the light bulb? One: Shuji Nakamura, inventor of so-called solid-state white lights made from light-emitting diodes, commonly known as LEDs. In 1992, while working in the laboratory of an obscure […]

Bag the plastic, assemblyman declares

NY assemblyman wants to place new ban on widely-used grocery bags …The state lawmaker said his bill could help ease the national energy crisis. San Francisco officials estimated that the ban will save some 450,000 gallons of oil a year, Colton noted.

Filipino Poor to Suffer Most from Brownouts, Climate Change

…Unfortunately, an environmental activist group warned that the recent incidents of extreme heat and power shortages in Luzon are just the beginning of more climate change-related phenomena that would affect the Filipino poor the most. “We should brace for more extreme heat spells and its effects on our power, water, and agricultural systems, and on […]

Big Wheel

Lee Iacocca ran Ford and saved Chrysler. Now 82, he’s trying to save America. …What’s the most important new technology auto buyers don’t know about yet? Plug-in hybrids. They’re being touted as the wave of the future, and I think they are. I can imagine a scene in the not too distant future when a […]

Germans having second look at use of nuclear energy

Germans are not ready yet to mothball their country’s 17 nuclear power plants despite government plans to gradually abandon atomic energy by the year 2021. While opinion polls continue to indicate that most Germans remain opposed to nuclear energy, the momentum is slowly shifting in favor of the pro-atomic power camp, especially after the Russian […]

So you want to save the planet? What should you consider first?

April 22nd is Earth Day and you might be wondering what should we do? After all, the problem of global warming is huge and we have an administration that is worse than an ostrich in facing the problem. Yet, there are so many things we can do, that the question becomes where do we start? […]

Japan, US eye emission-free coal plant

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan and the United States will lead a five-nation project to develop a coal-fired power plant which discharges no carbon dioxide into the air, a press report said Sunday. The five nations, including China, India and South Korea, are expected to sign a deal this year on technological cooperation for the project, […]

Where are the lifeboat communities?

Since the first serious doubts about the long-term survival of industrial society began to surface in the second half of the twentieth century, one of the most frequently repeated proposals for doing something about the situation has been the building of lifeboat communities: isolated, self-sufficient settlements stocked with the resources and technology to survive the […]

Schwarzenegger lets MTV ‘pimp’ his ride

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to MTV to promote Earth Day with an 800-horsepower car that runs on renewable biodiesel fuel. The governor’s appearance on a special Earth Day episode of the popular show “Pimp My Ride” set for Sunday is the latest environmentally themed event for Schwarzenegger, who drew international attention […]

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