The Air Car
Coming to the US by 2010. It runs on compressed air. Seriously.
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
World’s first positive energy mixed-use building
This 1.4 million sf building for Masdar City in Abu Dhabi will the first mixed use building to create more energy than it uses. Which is certainly impressive. Another building, a Russian tower will be the tallest in Europe and…
World’s largest solar plant planned for AZ
The Solana Generating Station will use solar trough technology coupled with molten salt thermal energy storage. It will cover three square mile and output 280 megawatts from two steam generators, enough to power 70,000 homes. In 5-10 years there will…
Suburbs not doomed. Go figure
Suburbia may be well suited to a distributed, clean energy future. This is because the open areas in suburbs make it easier to put in micro local power like wind and solar, an idea that stands in direct and fascinating…
Wind power grows at record pace in US
“It was the third record year in a row for the wind industry; Except 2007 was a ‘blowout’ [fantastic] year with 5244 megawatts of new electrical generating capacity added by the wind industry, which is more than twice as large…