Category Energy

Power from moving water

Artist’s conception of a wave farm of 750-kW Pelamis wave converters. Chemical and Engineering news has an excellent overview of the various technologies being developed to create electricity from moving water. The primary methods are wave and tidal. Wave Waves…

Rust Belt to green jobs

This is precisely what the country needs. Renewable energy creating new jobs. In the Rust Belt town of Newton, Iowa, the recently closed Maytag plant is now being used to build concrete towers for wind turbines. Another factory is building…

Repower America

How do we do it? By investing in three core areas – energy efficiency, renewable generation and a national unified smart grid. Repower America is an Al Gore-affiliated group. He’s quite right, we need clean energy and we need it…