Category Energy

MetaEfficient has the details and a video on the spectacular solar tower in Spain. It’s already producing enough power for 6,000 homes and may be able to do ten times that soon. Spain also mandates that new homes have solar…

Microbial fuel cells will create energy and clean water from brewery waste!

Ocean Power Technologies “wave generation system uses a ‘smart,’ ocean-going buoy to capture and convert wave energy into low-cost, clean electricity.” A 10 MW power station would occupy 30 acres of ocean space, and is scalable to 100 MW.

This is because two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions occur while growing the crops used to produce biodiesel, according to a recent study. Thus, when you view the entire cycle of producing it, it’s no improvement over gasoline. The best…

Matthew Simmons, major investment banker to the oil business for decades, on peak oil and the need for alt energy. “Many alternative energy sources are energy intensive,” he said. “Corn-based energy is a scam; it’s very energy-intensive.” Simmons also pointed…