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This Saturday Oct 3rd 10am - 4pm is the Washington State Solar Tour in association with the National Solar Tour and local sponsor Seattle City Light. This tour is designed to give an opportunity to see solar hot water and solar electricity systems installed and producing energy in your neighborhood. The Seattle Solar Tour allows [...] Today I walked past a newspaper stand and on the front page of the Seattle Times is a an article touting a plan to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Eastern Washington town of Cle Elum. The governors of Washington, California and Idaho are taking a bold stride to begin to ween ourselves from the current gasoline infrastructure. A proposed plan along the 1,382 miles of the west coast I-5 corridor would create a “green freeway” utilizing rest stops as refueling stations for alternative-fuel vehicles. The next time you change a burnt out light bulb consider this….. The Global Wind Energy Council has announced that the US has the most installed wind power in the world. The US increased their capacity by 50% overtaking Germany as the leader of total wind energy production. Possibly the most notable is China’s fourth year of doubling their wind power output to rank 4th in the [...] How would you like to cut your hot water bill by 70% using the sun to heat your water. As an impressive array of thermal solar power plants have been scheduled to be built by BrightSource Energy in the Mohave desert of Southern California….the question looms…. So why doesn’t Exxon Mobile bail out the failing auto industry? After all they are the ones that rely on these gas guzzling vehicles to create record breaking profits of $45 billion. Profits that exceed the gross domestic product of all but 16 of the worlds nations. With windfall profits like that why not ask [...] You would expect the oil rich countries like Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) of the Middle East to be an unlikely hot spot for green industry. Considering they have one of the highest per capitia carbon footprints in the world with little public transportation, no recycling and rampant energy waste. The opposite is true as [...] The idea of building decentralized smart grid’s to distribute power is the talk of the sustainable community currently. By decentralizing the power grid it reduces the vulnerability of terrorism attacks, reduces rolling blackouts and allows the efficient deployment of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. |
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