When Byron Kominek returned home after the Peace Corps and later working as a diplomat in Africa, his family’s 24-acre farm near Boulder, Colo., was struggling to turn a profit. The answer turned out to be a solar garden. “Our farm has mainly been hay producing for fifty years,” Kominek said, on a recent chilly […]
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It has become well known that massive data storage centers where much of the worlds images, videos, and documents are stored require massive amounts of energy. New research sponsored by software giant Microsoft includes a promise from the company that it would help develop sustainable materials, including hemp, that store carbon to help construct data centers
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Wind turbines just keep on growing. The newest generation from GE Renewable Energy is called the Halide-X and is rated at a staggering 14MW of generation power. This offshore turbine also has the longest blades measuring a popping 107 yards long, longer than a football field. Read about this new Goliath in the renewable energy
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Canadian energy giant ATCO says it is making progress with a 2,600MWh pumped hydro project near Bathurst, which it hopes to gain a spot in the first renewable energy zone in NSW to go to tender. The Central West Pumped Hydro (CWPH) project will have a capacity of 325MW, and eight hours storage, or a
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Given all the bad news these days is creating a Protopian future even possible? As the saying goes those who say something is impossible are often displaced by those who are doing the impossible. So many of the activities and products we now take for granted did not even exist 50 years ago including the
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