Residents in Florida — the fourth most populous state in America – are finding themselves in the midst of an energy crisis. With the demand for energy quickly outpacing the capacity to create it, researchers at Florida Atlantic University are turning to an alternative source – the ocean.
Scientists say the energy within the Gulf Stream’s [...]
This month, GreenTechMedia highlighted obsolete greentech concepts that are making a go of it…again.
In this really cool list, GreenTechMedia features sixteen ideas that are centuries old, but are experiencing a re-birth in today’s green technology startups. The old-school concepts include:
1. Mashed Earth (www.integrityblock.com)
2. Solar-Thermal Water Heaters (www.mondial-energy.com )
3. Solar Lighting (www.sunlight-direct.com )
4. The Opposed Piston/Opposed Cylinder Engine (www.achatespower.com , [...]
Listed by BusinessWeek as #1 out of the top 20 most important technologies of the next 10 years, it looks like ocean tidal power is finally becoming a reality
With all the progress solar panels and wind turbines have made to date, tidal-generated energy sources, arguably the world’s most dependable, predictable and largest untapped renewable [...]
The EPA released its list of the top 50 purchasers of green power today, naming Intel as number 1 due to its purchase of 1,301,200,000 kWh of wind power a year in order to run 46% of its total operation. This is Intel’s second year in the number one spot. Other tech bellwethers on the [...]
Governments world-wide are scrambling to find safe and efficient forms of alternative energy to combat global warming, rising fuel prices, and other ecological concerns. In this global race, Spain and Portugal are emerging as the surprising front runners – and not everyone is happy about it.
According to a recent article by Gabrielle Pickard, Spain is [...]
It’s estimated that the energy density in waves is more than 800 times higher than in wind, currently the most popular alternative energy resource. Rafael Waters, from the Uppsala University in Sweden, decided harness this energy. But, instead of adapting conventional energy technology, he built a durable, maintenance-free, simple mechanical construction that was adapted to [...]
Marine renewable energy — it has great potential, but is yet unproven. That’s changing. Today we have the US Navy erecting tidal turbines off the coast of the state of Washington, and Verdant Power’s Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project http://www.verdantpower.com/what-initiative is being operated in New York City’s East River. The validity of this approach might [...]