Alternative Energy Diggs

A recently released study by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) points to mass transit as one of the key weapons in the fight against global warming.read more | digg story

A Tampa Bay, Florida man Teddy Cline, has patented an amazing new technology that converts water into fuel for anything from blowtorches to car engines. Check this out!read more | digg story

"Renderings of 27-story Antilla building depict a highrise that couldn’t be greener. It’s covered in foliage, with living walls enclosing all four sides, hanging gardens and green rooftop. The architects believe its environmental features, primarily the walls of plants will increase green space and combat urban heat island effect."read more | digg story

Neil is touring the country in a soon-to-be converted 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV named Linc-Volt, spreading the word about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and vehicle-to-grid technology.read more | digg story

From start to finish, a visual guide on how solar panels are produced. If you're green, soldering has never been so sexy.read more | digg story

Taking cues from moth eyes and cicada wings, researchers are developing coatings for solar cells that increase efficiency by decreasing wasteful reflections and imparting self-cleaning.read more | digg story

In China, there's a massive exodus from the rural to urban areas, but it's controlled because the country doesn't have enough housing for everyone that wants to live in a city. At the same time, urbanization accentuates the air and soil pollution problems. So, Knafo Klimor Architects proposed an agro-housing project that blends urban livingread more | digg story

It's a small world after all -- and nanotechnology may make it even smaller. Imagine a world where particles could be manipulated at the nanoscale to replicate items like diamonds, food and even water.read more | digg story

The White House released a heavily edited version of written testimony by Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on health risks posed by global warming.read more | digg story

BBC News highlights the UN's latest Global Environment Outlook focusing on the State of the Planet, in Graphics. From the article, "long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with 'a remarkable lack of urgency'."read more | digg story

In the tunnel below the system, a flat-panel monitor will display the real time energy consumption of the scoreboard as well as the real time energy production from the solar unit. - Plus, if a player whacks the system with a home run, they get free panels for themselves.read more | digg story

YouTube user xpenzif has invented a magnet motor in which four rows of screws, off-set around a cylinder, appear to cause the cylinder to spin when a holder of four neodymium magnets is brought close to it. Inventor said it ran all through the night once.read more | digg story

The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. Also included is a Fox News clip of a fossil fuel industry PR flak trying spin his way out of this inconvenient truth.read more | digg story

London hopes to be the proud owner of the world’s first tidal-powered lunar clock. Set to be built for the 2012 Olympics, the clock hopes to be a focal point for the games. The structure will be 40 metres wide and powered by turbines beneath the tidal River Thames. The turbines would also produce enough lighting power for hundreds of homes.read more | digg story

With local water resources being depleted, water prices skyrocketing and the question of where these billions of kWh will come from, Michael makes a sobering statement in his report.read more | digg story

Purdue professor makes hydrogen by mixing water, gallium and aluminum, eliminating the need to store hydrogen.read more | digg story

Solar "power" usually means converting the sun's rays (photons) to electricity. Solar "energy" is a more generic term, meaning any technology that converts the sun's energy into a form of energy - so that includes the aforementioned solar power technologies, but also solar thermal for water heating, space heating and cooling, and industrial processread more | digg story

Barely a day goes by without a prominent corporation loudly announcing its latest green accomplishments, but much corporate environmentalism boils down to misleading statistics and hype. To make real progress, genuine accomplishments will have to be sorted out from feel-good gestures.read more | digg story

A growing demand for electricity could be one of the primary effects of global climate change on energy use in the United States, according to a new report. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program released the report, "Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States," which is the third in a series of 21 reports.read more | digg story

What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.read more | digg story

For the sake of discussion, let's say it is indeed real and coming soon to a laptop near you. There are many questions that come to my mind when considering this: If the batteries last for decades, and your average laptop sees between 1 and 5 years active duty, what then happens to these batteries?read more | digg story

The Ontario government is talking to Bombardier Transportation about funding the development of one of the world's first hydrogen-powered trains.read more | digg story

At the University of Houston, Texas, USA, a team led by Peter Strasser has now developed a new class of electrocatalyst that could help to improve the capacity of fuel cells. The active phase of the catalyst consists of nanoparticles with a platinum-rich shell and a core made of an alloy of copper, cobalt, and platinum.read more | digg story

Leading fuel cell power systems company Intelligent Energy, has entered into a collaboration with Suzuki Motor Corporation, to provide it’s fuel cell power system to be installed in the Crosscage, a hydrogen fuel motorcycle. Intelligent Energy makes use of use of thin metallic bipolar plates.read more | digg story

The Akademie Mont-Cenis in Germany has a glass roof canopy that create a "micro-climate" for the building's interior. The roof also features integrated solar cells that produce about 700,000 kWh of energy per year. It is said to be the largest PV installation on a single roof.read more | digg story

The Maybach has 30 solar cells in the roof that supplies 63 watts of electricity that powers the air conditioning system fan, cooling the car 15 degrees in the hot sun.read more | digg story

With drivers gunning for the highest average speed on a twisty course to snag pole positioning, solar car regulations were a "recipe for disaster," says the top MIT racer whose vehicle flipped over in a 2005 qualifier. Now the sport is adding roll cages and other regulations to overcome a tragic crash.read more | digg story

Good goal, bad policy. In fact, ethanol will do little to reduce the large percentage of our fuel that is imported (more than 60 percent), and the ethanol policy will have ripple effects on other markets.read more | digg story

US policy focused on adding more corn ethanol to the nation’s gas tanks in an effort to increase energy self-sufficiency will do little but drive food prices skywards, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets, the the wholesale and corporate banking arm of CIBC.read more | digg story

Amazing (and expensive) gadget from the boffins at the American Stirling Company.read more | digg story

Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYPW) announced today that it has successfully tested its patent-pending Waste Heat Engine (WHE), a unique technology off-shoot of the Green Revolution Engine.read more | digg story

Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries could trigger a mass extinction, UK scientists have warned. read more | digg story

NCAR and its research partners have successfully launched a solar telescope to an altitude of 120,000 feet, borne by a balloon larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The test clears the way for long-duration polar balloon flights beginning in 2009 that will capture unprecedented details of the sun's surface.read more | digg story

CaliSolar, a solar start-up that derives from research originally conducted at UC Berkeley, has come up with a way to make solar cells out of upgraded metallurgical silicon, which is less pure and less costly than the industry standard electrical grade silicon, according to Johnson, the company's CEO.read more | digg story

japanese company clean venture 21 dribbles silicon into balls and sticks them into little reflectors, making a solar panel with less silicon and no cutting. Result: cheap panels.read more | digg story

Puget Sound Tidal Power is aiming for 10 to 15 kilowatts with its turbine -- barely enough for five homes -- but the lower power output also means a lower price tag, according to company President Burton Hamner. The total cost of a single turbine from Puget Sound in mass manufacturing will come to around $10,000 or so, he said.read more | digg story

A company called Marine Current Turbines will be installing a 1.2 megawatt tidal turbine off the coast of Northern Ireland in August.read more | digg story

Today’s topic to shout from the mountaintops is how to make your own affordable wind turbine. Did you know that the energy in the wind more or less follows the human 24-hour power consumption cycle? So I’m here to say, lets utilize that wind while we simultaneously use up the electricity.read more | digg story

A West Australian inventor believes he has developed a way to generate electricity for homes using wind power. His concept uses a modular wind turbine that is small enough to sit on a the roof of house.read more | digg story

We have all seen the huge wind turbines in the united states, but this is a wind turbine facility I was completely unaware of. It's in The North Sea just off the coast of Holland. We all know how great wind energy could but the most stunning thing about this wind farm is it's location.read more | digg story

This is my project to make a semi compact wind turbine that can handle turbulent wind and generate enough power to charge deep cycle batteries.read more | digg story

The 22-turbine scheme will generate enough power for the annual needs of 30,000 domestic users, or 30% of total electricity consumption in north Devon.read more | digg story

Type in your zip code to find the nearest nuclear plant.read more | digg story

Do some of the arguments of nuclear power supporters "feel" wrong to you? Dr. John W. Gofman takes aim at the claims nuke plants release less radiation than airline flights or living in Denver, that the total amount of dangerous waste produced would be less than a pill-sized tablet per person, and that genetic damage hasn't been observed.read more | digg story

It is true that Chevron is part of the petroleum-based energy industry and is often touted as a member of “Big Oil.” And it is true that, as a Big Oil affiliate, Chevron is often suspected of resisting alternative and renewable energy technologies. However the reality is that even Chevron is embracing the development of alternative energy.read more | digg story

If you think algae is just that green grime that dirties up your pool, think again: it’s also a surprisingly viable source for biofuel.read more | digg story

California energy regulators adopted an ambitious target yesterday, making it a goal that all new homes built after 2020 produce as much energy as they consume.read more | digg story

Solar power could be the world's number one electricity source by the end of the century, but until now its role has been negligible as producers wait for price parity with fossil fuels, industry leaders say.read more | digg story

Poll results can be notoriously misleading, depending on how the questions were formulated and who was asked, so it’s good to view them with a strong sense of skepticism — particularly when the organization sponsoring the poll has a dog in the fight.read more | digg story

When hybrids first hit the market in 1999, critics and enthusiasts placed their bets on how long -- or short -- the $3,000 battery packs would last in the hands of consumers.read more | digg story