NZ: Can Individual Farmer’s Benefit From Wind Power?
New Zealand has an abundant wind resource capable of producing up to 20 percent of our electricity needs.
Renewable Energy
Ten steps to a sustainable energy future
This essay was in large parts presented at the
“Renewables 2004” in Bonn (June 3 2004) and at
“Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum” (June 29 2004).
The roles of hydrogen, oil, gas, coal and nuclear are reconsidered as well as the perspective of a energy system mainly based on renewable energy.
Latin America: Renewable Energy Not Always Sustainable
Ten percent renewable sources of energy, established as a worldwide goal for 2010, is already a reality in Latin America, but that has been achieved mostly through big hydroelectric dams, which environmentalists argue are not sustainable.
Global solar panel shortage
Solar panels are in short supply because many manufacturers are sending their available product to Germany and Japan, where they can be sold for more.
Scotland: Report out to turn tide on energy focus
THE SCOTTISH Executive was today urged to switch its alternative energy focus from wind farms to wave power.
US: A project for energy independence
The Apollo Alliance, a powerful cabal of unlikely allies, are quietly pushing the Kerry campaign to adopt what may be the best, most timely Big Idea to hit a presidential campaign in decades. The Alliance proposes what it calls a New Apollo Project, which would strive for American energy-independence within a decade.
Trinidad: Alternative energy sources our only hope
One would think that countries that are net importers of oil and gas would make concerted efforts to conserve energy, and to work feverishly towards developing alternative sources. But the paltry sums of money allocated for the necessary research and development of alternatives is negligible.
Nuclear share of electricity predicted to fall
New nuclear power stations are being built in Asia and Eastern Europe but hardly anywhere else, according to a new global analysis by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Toshiba Claims Smallest Fuel Cell Yet
Toshiba announced on Friday that it has built what it claims is the smallest-ever direct methanol fuel cell.
Time for an energy revolution
It is now possible to save more oil through energy efficiency than the US could possibly find in the ground, and to do so at a per-barrel cost well below the average market price for oil.
UK: War on turbines
MORE than 200 protesters including Sir Bernard Ingham and Professor David Bellamy gathered in Saddlewort to oppose plans to build wind farms on beauty spots.
NASA scientists get global fix on food, wood & fiber use
NASA scientists working with the World Wildlife Fund and others have measured how much of Earth’s plant life humans need for food, fiber, wood and fuel. The study identifies human impact on ecosystems.
