Alternative Energy Diggs

Australia plans to allow greenhouse gas emissions to be stored in the ocean floor around the island continent, with exploration for suitable sites possibly starting in 2008.read more | digg story

One of the few good green things to come out of Alistair Darling's Budget was his shake-up of vehicle excise duty - better known as road tax - to penalise gas guzzling cars.read more | digg story

A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.’s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050. But $420 billion in subsidies from 2011 to 2050 would be required to fund the infrastructure and make it cost-competitive.read more | digg story

After years of development, the Washington-based company InnovaTek is testing a hand-sized microreactor that can convert virtually any liquid fuel into hydrogen, producing a portable hydrogen stream for use in adjoining fuel-cells.read more | digg story

The tower will have wind turbines positioned at the corners of the building, to capture wind at its highest velocity as it accelerates around the tower.read more | digg story

India is well-known for delicious food, and the kitchen is considered to be a sacred place in any Indian home. And now India has something else to be proud of: the world’s largest solar kitchen.read more | digg story

The historic city of Philadelphia hasn't been known for its skyline in a long time. Now, some developers want to change that with a proposal to construct what would become the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the second-tallest building in the world, standing at 1,500 feet, with a very-high degree of energy and water efficiency.read more | digg story

4,500 gigawatts is about a third of the generating capacity of the entire world...so I think it's safe to assume that every single publication (and there are lots) running this story has overlooked a pretty glaring typo.read more | digg story

The Masdar Headquarters building will produce more power than it needs (a positive energy building). In fact, the solar roof (one of the largest in the world) will be constructed first, and it will power the construction of the rest of the building. The 1.4 million square foot building was designed by Chicago architecture firm.read more | digg story

Corn ethanol may become a major energy player in the future, but it will take great deal of water to keep it going.read more | digg story

Solar is a highly efficient for heating water. Combining it with underground storage, and a year-round system can be created where the system can cover heating requirements in the winter and cooling in the summer.read more | digg story

Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back those emissions we can’t prevent—the ones that have already reached the atmosphere.read more | digg story

Climate change is likely to transform many of Australia’s natural landscapes.read more | digg story

The West is galloping towards superheat and drought.read more | digg story

The U.S. West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities.read more | digg story

An eight-turbine wind farm will open in Panhandle, Texas, but instead of referring to it as “that Panhandle wind farm,” it will be have a branded with a corporate name - “The Wege Wind Energy Farm, provided by Steelcase.” oh, and in case you're wondering, Steelcase happens to be a large furniture company out of Michigan.read more | digg story

Yesterday, the New York City Council voted to in favor of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to introduce congestion pricing on the clogged streets of Gotham.read more | digg story

If the proposal is approved by next Tuesday, the state will be eligible for more than 350 million dollars in federal funding to improve mass transit.read more | digg story

Researchers from the Middle East are working on new ways to reduce the emissions from methane-gas burning turbines for power generation.read more | digg story

A New England start-up company claims that for $3 billion it can fertilize the Mississippi river bed with 160,000 small electric turbines and churn out 1,600 MW of clean electricity from the river’s flows.read more | digg story

Expected to cost some $270 million, the solar project is currently and is planned to begin generating power by 2010, completed 2013, will be able to provide solar power to some 45,000 homes. The project will avoid an approximate 437,000 tons of annual greenhouse-gas emissions that would have been produced by a coal-fired plant of the same output!read more | digg story

Record-breaking oil prices, soaring greenhouse-gas emissions, and the rise of carbon trading all add up to one thing: a new dawn for solar power. From New Mexico to Australia, governments and businesses are collaborating to create enormous plants that will each bring clean electricity to tens of thousands.read more | digg story