Alternative Energy Diggs

The Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) is encouraged by President Bush's signing of the Energy Bill and is hopeful that an Energy Tax Extender Bill can be negotiated and approved early next year.read more | digg story

In this blog by No Impact Man, Colin Bevan discusses the recent presentations by John Burke, CEO of Trek (bicycle manufacturing company), who laid out economic opportunities for the bicycle industry in helping solve our current social/environmental crises. Colin points out that the status quo need not be the only way to support our economy.read more | digg story

We've talked oh so much about NanoSolar in the last year. Their technology has seemed promising, their government gra...read more | digg story

To increase our remote access to ongoing and completed green building projects nationwide, Building Green Inc. has teamed up with Google and the Department of Energy to bring us an interactive way to view these projects.read more | digg story

The expert the oil industry pays to tell us EV car batteries are not ready is caught not fact-checking.read more | digg story

There are two electric car manufacturers in Canada - and the government is killing them both. Make sure your MP hears about it from you.read more | digg story

Using 1/10th of the land in New Mexico, scientist says his algae system would supply all of America's energy needs. With video link.read more | digg story

A new analysis has concluded that use of existing biotechnology in the production of so-called bulk chemicals could reduce consumption of non-renewable energy and carbon emissions by 100 percent. The study appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology.read more | digg story

The Senate version of the energy bill that passed last week includes great things, like boosting vehicles’ average fuel efficiency to 35 miles per gallon, increasing the use of biofuels & updating efficiency standards for federal buildings. But the glaring gaps include the absence of renewable energy incentives. read more | digg story

Thinking about making a low-cost, easy-to-install wind power device that provides a safe and attractive method for harnessing power from the wind? Virtually all modern wind turbines convert wind energy to electricity for energy distribution.read more | digg story

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, NM, are harnessing solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, which can be used to make fuels. The process can be speeded up by using satellites to beam down solar energy--as described in the book Sunstroke by David Kagan. The Sandia lab has demonstrated that it works..read more | digg story

Thirty-six families in Clovis California joined together in a group-based purchase program, which raised 215 total kilowatts of solar power.read more | digg story

The outdoor table is small enough to take home with you, but attracts enough rays to power your laptop and various other home office peripherals, and even a television and DVD player.read more | digg story

Shai Agassi: Israel will have 100,000 electric cars in 2 yearsread more | digg story

The unique aspect about this car is that it can run only with the pedal power provided by your feet, much like the Flinstone mobile. If you team up to pedal with another passenger, the combined power could generate up to 500 watts, which can increase the range of the car by an astounding 50%.read more | digg story

An innovative charity working to bring solar power to small African communities with no access to electricity.read more | digg story

Many unpleasant byproducts of today's design industry last thousands of years; but what things do we want to last that long?read more | digg story

A study conducted by Stanford University confirmed that interconnected multiple wind farms can be used to provide baseload electric power.read more | digg story

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has offered a new model that provides the best explanation to date for the membrane’s structure and how it functions.read more | digg story

The Smart Car is coming to the United States! And sooner than you might think… The little car that could, manufactured by Daimler, is expected to join the ranks of available subcompact vehicles in the US in 2008. Hopefully this will convince more people that when personal transportation is concerned, bigger is most certainly not better.read more | digg story

It is time American motorsport became more energy efficient.read more | digg story

If you haven’t heard of the Motorhead Messiah, Jonathan Goodwin, let me introduce you: he hacks cars for a living, and he can get 60 mpg out of an H3 Hummer while doubling the horsepower and cutting emissions in half.read more | digg story

Tom Rand, starting with an old shell of a building as raw material, is taking us on a virtual tour of the development process as he works to create a green hotel in Toronto, Canada — aiming at an 80% carbon reduction over standard buildings, all whilst still thinking like a businessman (i.e. not over-capitalising).read more | digg story

Hyundai seems to pretty happy with themselves right now for having what appears to be one of the world's better fuel cell electric vehicles.read more | digg story

Data from a new IBM survey reveals we as consumers would be willing to pay more for environmentally friendly energy options if more information could be made available to educate themselves.read more | digg story

A report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that renewable energy is making a difference in the fight against global warming and that we need more of it. In fact, renewable energy is the best way to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.read more | digg story

New York City taxis are set to become an entirely hybrid fleet thanks to the passing of a new regulation dramatically increasing taxicab mileage.read more | digg story

These expanded chips, which could be thousands of times the size of the original, could be used to make cheaper solar panels, sensor networks, and flat-screen TVs.read more | digg story

New fuel economy standards will take effect in 2011, eventually rising to a 35 mpg fleet average by 2020.read more | digg story

Flash presentation that shows where people are being born, dying, and how much C02 they are producing across the globe. read more | digg story

This sustainable, household device uses UV disinfection, powered by a bicycle, to produce safe drinking water.read more | digg story

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Arizona State University used traces of helium isotope to locate huge reservoirs of geothermal energy. Just in time to help stop global warming. Renewable energy sources like geothermal, wind power, and space solar power as written about in Sunstroke by David Kagan are needed at this time.read more | digg story

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled important details about a class of catalysts that could help improve the performance of fuel cells.read more | digg story

The automobile industry's challenge to California's Clean Car law was rejected by a federal court today.read more | digg story

Competition between hydrogen and plug-in electric cars for Federal funding continues. Unfortunately, this article perpetuates myths about hydrogen and its cost and fails to mention all sources of hydrogen. The article also fails to mention plug-in electrics would contribute to increased pollution due to demands for Coal, a dirty technology.read more | digg story

When they go into operation in Whistler in late 2009, the 20 buses will be the largest fleet of fuel-cell buses in the world. B.C. Transit and MOT officials want to showcase them during the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.read more | digg story

Commissioned in January by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, University of California experts today released their much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels are used in California.read more | digg story

Sixty-seven percent of consumers polled across six countries - Australia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States - would be more willing to pay for eco-friendly energy according to a new report.read more | digg story

For two years, a Southern California family has been driving the earliest version of Honda's FCX Clarity fuel-cell vehicle. Who is building these H2 stations? Who are the other users?read more | digg story

The solar electric bus and the recharging system at the Adelaide Central Bus Station represent a significant investment by the Adelaide City Council into a sustainable future for the City of Adelaide, while providing leadership in sustainable public transport options for cities around Australia.read more | digg story

The first footage of GM's EV1--driving--in two years. Interview with Alexandra Paul at awesome eco fest, Renewable LA.read more | digg story

Here's another sign that Big Solar's time has come: Silicon Valley startup Ausra is building the U.S.'s first solar power plant factory.read more | digg story

Pretty easy, since I'm guessing most of our moms didn't teach us anything about biomass, except that you shouldn't eat dirt.read more | digg story

Buildings are responsible for about one-third of global energy use. But there are many ways to change that equation; strengthening building codes is one clear arena. In my community, for example, 20 years ago,read more | digg story

A new company is brokering deals that let big companies pay less for power, while getting a high percentage of it from roof-top solar panels. The Secret: Piles of upfront cash from big investment firms.read more | digg story

Electrolysis a method of separating elements by pushing an electric current through a compound. It is used in various industrial applications such as removing copper from its ore. It is also used to separate hydrogen and oxygen from water. Electrolysis isn't the most efficient way to obtain hydrogen, but it is one of the easiest and cheapest ways..read more | digg story

Want an electric car, but can't afford a Tesla? How about a DIY kit?read more | digg story

Enough capacity, ultimately, to provide 150,000 times the energy currently in useread more | digg story

''This is basically the first study that's a detailed look at places where we could develop offshore wind energy in California,'' Dvorak, a Stanford doctoral student said. ''Some of the studies have looked at the wind speeds offshore, but they hadn't looked at the [water] depth and wind speeds at this high of resolution.''read more | digg story

Even though California is already one of the most efficient users of energy, the CEC is looking for further efficiency improvements, and although a 2006 legislative act mandates 20% renewable electricity by 2010, the report looks to 33% by 2020 to support California’s population growth.read more | digg story