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Green Star Products in San Diego is getting an enthusiastic response to their Algae-to-Biodiesel program according to this article by Fox Business.
Algae growth needs only sunlight, non-potable water (salt, briny or wastewater) and CO2, which is the major global warming gas.
One tank full of gasoline in your car emits over 200 pounds of CO2 [...]
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On December 17th SunEdison, Americas largest solar energy services provider, announced that they activated a 8.22 Megawatt solar plant in Alamosa, Colorado.
This is the largest solar photovoltaic plant in the US for a major public utility.
Colorado passed a lot in march that requires utility companies to derive 20 percent of their power from renewable [...]
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Just the yesterday I was reading discussion about the expense of solar power opposed to coal plants and how solar will never be as cheap as coal; and then I found out that Nanosolar, a Silicon Valley company funded by the founders of google, has announced that it has shipped it’s first solar panels. [...]
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We certainly live in exciting times for solar energy; Just days ago the nation’s most powerful solar plant went online in Colorado and now the U.S. Air Force has one upped it. The new solar array at Nellis AFB will put out enough power to supply 25 percent of the power used by [...]
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The king of all cheap, environmentally conscious things that everyone can do; the compact fluorescent light bulb. These little gizmos generally save 30 bucks in energy over the life of the bulb and save about 2,000 times their own weight in greenhouse gases. In addition they produce 75% less heat than incandescent [...]
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The Capital District Transportation Authority in Albany, New York has just announced that they will be switching to biodiesel for all of their diesel powered buses.
(Albany, NY) - In a move to make bus travel even more environmentally friendly, the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) plans to convert its entire bus fleet to biodiesel fuel [...]
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The United Press International (UPI) recently reported that the University Of Arkansas has come up with a method of converting chicken fat to biofuel. This should come as no surprise as Arkansas based Tyson Chicken processes 42 million chickens a week.
Engineers used supercritical methanol to change chicken fat into biodiesel, producing a more than 90% [...]
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According to Channel 11 in Houston, Texas a biodiesel company has converted a 1960’s era turbine generator to run off of pure biodiesel.
“There are 2,200 of these units around the U.S. There is no reason for them not to run (on) biodiesel,” said Bell. “We have not found another in the world of its size. [...]
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When I struck out on my own many many years ago, some friends and I got the bright idea to rent this big old arts and crafts era house in the middle of what is now called an historical district. It was called a war zone back then, but we were young and immortal and [...]
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When it comes to housing there are many different shades of green in the world. On one end of the scale are the conventional homes that are built more energy efficient and maybe use a few more earth friendly materials. At the other end of the scale lies the Earthship.
Earth ships came about in the [...]
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