Category Energy

Fossil fuel free community planned for Colorado

The energy will come from active and passive solar plus geothermal. So, not only will electricity and heating be generated completely from renewable sources, it’ll be done on site. Sounds like it could become a resilient community, a concept John…

Green links. 8/1

Spain plans world’s biggest high speed rail network. New thermoelectric material. It converts heat from car exhaust pipes to electricity more efficiently than previous materials, which could be highly useful for hybrids. D-Link greens its routers. They use up to…

Green links. 7/31

New precast concrete sucks CO2 out of the air. World’s largest onshore wind farm (909 megawatts) to be built in Oregon. Algae based biofuels in plain English: Why it matters, how it works. Utah’s solar fired furnace to power California…

Green links

Braving toxic fumes and oily, black water, 11 Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude’s Aurora tar sands operation, targeting the same two-kilometre wide tailings pond just north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, that made international headlines in March after 500 ducks landed on…