Oops. Up to 1,000,000 Gallons of Sticky Crude Spill into Bird Habitat on...
Published just a few minutes ago by the Associated Press.McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A barge carrying nearly a million gallons of especially thick, sticky oil collided with a ship in Galveston Bay on...
View ArticleOffshore Wind - 1000+ Green Jobs on 2 Sites
Promoting renewable energy frequently concentrates on the environmental impact of switching from fossil fuels and the associated affects this has on both the climate and weather.* There is another side...
View ArticleThe nuclear industry thinks its under siege; but it brought it on itself
We couldn’t have written a better headline ourselves: Nuclear power industry under seige, FirstEnergy exec warns. Never mind the misspelling of “siege,” newspapers are having a hard enough time these...
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We Don’t Need to Destroy Our Planet to Have Power
We have frequently written against the building of the XL pipeline and the practice of fracking in this space. Some have criticized our pieces saying there is not a viable alternative to carbon fuels...
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Reduced emissions from wind energy in 2013 was equivalent to taking 20...
Mark Del Franco of NAWindpower reports AWEA: EPA Rules Could Be Third Biggest Driver For Wind Behind PTC And RPS Policies. On Monday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed regulations to reduce...
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New silent wind turbine could generate half of a homes electric needs, says...
Megan Treacy of Treehugger reports Silent rooftop wind turbines could generate half of a household's energy needsA Dutch company cased The Archimedes has developed a small, highly efficient, and silent...
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Sunday Train: The Solar Fight, Is Going Right, Deep in the Heart of Texas ...
Well, what do you know? I look around, and see a story saying Solar power gains momentum after long struggle in Texas. And not in "Grist" or "Solar Energy News!" or any such ... but in the Dallas...
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Home solar power with power storage will disrupt utilities say Barclay's as...
Image Credit: PanasonicA specter is haunting the traditional U.S. electrical utility companies and that specter is the coming boom in solar power storage systems. Solar power systems with storage are...
View ArticleWhy Are Some in Congress Content to Let Wind Industry Jobs Blow Away?
This is a guest column from my colleague Dave Hamilton, director of clean energy for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.Believe it or not, there was a day when the Production Tax Credit for clean,...
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Worldwide cumulative wind power generation capacity to double by 2020 says...
GlobalData report: Worldwide cumulative wind power capacity to more than double by 2020, from "319.6 GW in 2013 to 678.5 GW by 2020, says research and consulting firm GlobalData." China added 45% of...
View ArticleLet's Clear the Air
From The Progressive PopulistPresident Obama rightly took the initiative in imposing limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Fossil fuel producers are screaming bloody murder, but the consensus...
View ArticleWe Will Head Climate Change Disaster Off at the Pass
I'll get to renewable energy and why we'll survive the climate change apocalypse in a moment.But first this...I came of age in the 1990s. One of those grunge loving, flannel wearing Only Happy When It...
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Texas sets new peak wind record for state and probably for nation too says...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration records show that Texas set a new record for instantaneous peak wind production at 8:48 p.m. on March 26, reaching an output level of 10,296 megawatts (MW)....
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New wind turbines generate back the energy it took to make them in just six...
Joe Romm of Think Progress reports A New Wind Turbine Generates Back The Energy It Takes To Build It In Just 6 Months, based on a study just published by The European Photovoltaic Industry...
View Article100% Renewable has Arrived
That's in one German state, not in the US, more's the pity.Germany’s windiest area, Schleswig-Holstein, will probably achieve “100% renewable electricity” sometime this year. That is, its clean energy...
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A plan to store wind energy in giant underwater air bubbles
Sarah Zhang of Gizmodo brings us the interesting news of a The Plan to Store Wind Energy In Giant Underwater Air Bubbles, well, actually, they would be stored in compressed air inside giant balloons...
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Despite foot-draggers in Congress, wind turbine company adding 800 jobs to...
Sen. Mark Udall tours the Siemens Test Wind Turbine at the National Wind Technology Center just south of Boulder, Colorado, in 2013. The United States had a tremendous opportunity in the early 1980s to...
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UK Anti-Fracking Movement Grows
An exciting tour by my Goddaughter Liz Arnold around Europe to talk about the awful effects of fracking for poisonous natural gas has seemed to spur a movement in Europe that is even stronger than the...
View ArticleWill alternative energy save capitalism?
(Crossposted to Humanitarian Left and Firedoglake)Every time I publish a diary like this one ("Promoting an Effective Discussion: Capitalism Causes Climate Change," 8/3/14), I get responses from...
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Sunday Train: The Era of Reverse Pumped Hydro
In a sense, Sunday Train has been mentioning reverse pumped hydro before the Sunday Train actually existed. In 2007 at Daily Kos, in "Driving Ohio on Lake Erie" (reprinted in 2012 at Burning the...
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