Irish Tube Compressor: Wave energy breakthrough or pipe dream?
Wave energy is proving difficult to do. The ocean is a rough environment. However, a new design from Jospa, an Irish company, shows promise.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Energy
Geothermal, the ‘undervalued’ renewable resource, sees surging interest
NYT profiles the about-to-boom geothermal industry. Unlike wind and solar, geothermal power is steady, and California and Nevada have prodigious amounts of it. Also, many abandoned oil and gas wells could be used to product geothermal. Ormat is a key…
Active house. Captures more power than it uses. Zero carbon.
The world’s first active power house not only heats and powers itself via solar (in Denmark, no less) it puts enough energy back into the grid that the designers say it will cancel the energy costs of building it within…
Generating electricity from kites
In order to generate power the kite pulls a string attached to the generators on the ground. Upon reaching their maximum height, they are reeled back down to repeat the process. Wind a kilometer up is much stronger and more…
Taiwan’s solar stadium is 100% powered by the sun
Inhabitat has all the details.