Carbon Sequestration – an optimal clean technology?

While coal-fueled power plants are directly responsible for roughly one-third of our CO2 emissions, the DOE indicates that coal is expected to dominate our domestic power generation at least for the next 25 years. Globally, the increased demand for coal-fueled electricity will translate into a 57% rise in related CO2 emissions by 2030 according to the IEA.

Solar could provide one-fourth of world’s energy by 2050 — report

Solar power plants in the desert that use mirrors to amplify the sun’s rays could generate a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2050, according to a report by pro-solar groups.

Power-hungry gadgets must learn to diet

COME 2030, electronic gadgets will gobble three times as much electricity as they do today, requiring 280 gigawatts of new generating capacity, unless we do something about it.

Solar power could surge by 2050 in deserts: study

Solar power plants in deserts using mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays have the potential to generate up to a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2050, a report by pro-solar groups said on Monday.

How efficient is the Hummer hybrid? Depends on whom you ask

A Utah company yesterday showed off its electric version of the Hummer H3 that it says can go the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon.

Water Needs Electricity Needs Water …

It has long been an axiom of infrastructure planning that it takes a lot of water to make electricity, and a lot of electricity to make water.

Renewable power mandate overcomes hurdle in Senate

A measure requiring utilities to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, overcame a legislative hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

Renewable power mandate overcomes hurdle in Senate

A measure requiring utilities to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, overcame a legislative hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

Europe’s largest onshore wind farm open and ready to expand

Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is already powerful enough to meet Glasgow’s electricity needs, is to expand by more than a third as part of a major green energy initiative by Scottish ministers.

Green activists protest at Australia power plant

Environmental activists have shut down a coal digger at an Australian power station that provides 8 percent of the country’s coal-reliant electricity market, to protest against government climate policies.

Europe’s largest onshore wind farm open and ready to expand

Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is already powerful enough to meet Glasgow’s electricity needs, is to expand by more than a third as part of a major green energy initiative by Scottish ministers.

Power Plants: Artificial Trees That Harvest Sun and Wind to Generate Electricity

While on a train ride to visit his sister in the Netherlands in 2002, where monstrous wind turbines now mar scenic views, Alex van der Beek got an idea: Instead of ruining the natural landscape with conventional technology, why not generate electricity from something that blends in—a fake tree?