First the good news: I’ve discovered my new favorite blog (besides this one, of course), at Grist.org: http://gristmill.grist.org.
The bad new (hard to call it good news) is that published there I found the best commentary yet written on climate change, Beyond the point of no return, written by Ross Gelbspan. Ross is a journalist whose […]

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A new Stanford University study concludes that wind farms off the coast of California would ultimately produce between 25 and 100% of California’s energy needs.
http://www.physorg.com/news116519900.html
However, little power transmission capacity currently exists in the parts of Northern California where the winds are most suitable (where the population is less dense), and a number of hurdles […]

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Wave farms are being prototyped off the Oregon coast. The motion of the waves can be converted via turbines into electricity and piped back on shore.

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Capital markets financed the industrial revolution and the technological revolution (not to mention a few wars — read the House Of Morgan if you want to find out who wound up financing BOTH sides of the arms build up in WWI and WWII, I kid you not).
Now capital markets are funding the green revolution in […]

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HP has just joined Google (although on a smaller scale) on the solar power bandwagon. Both companies are turning  corporate campuses into 1-megawatt + solar power installations, saving money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions — which is appropriate considering each consumes massive amounts of electricity during the ordinary course of business.

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The Aptera Typ-1, which looks sort of like a Cessna without the wings, is a hybrid gasoline electric that its makers claim gets 300 miles to the gallon. It’s a tricycle design that gets listed as a motorcycle when you register with the department of motor vehicles, apparently. I’d like to see the crash tests […]

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I’m amazed to realize that we don’t see more of such simple solutions as solar trough power, which essentially involves setting up a back-yard scale set of parabolic troughs which use focus sunlight to heat liquid that spins a turbine and generates power. At present these are simple and effective for generating small quantities of […]

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Penn State researchers are claiming 68% efficiency (or more importantly, more energy is released from biomass in the system than is expended assembling the system in the first place) with fuel cells that generate hydrogen from cellulose.

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I’d like this one a lot better if the US Department of Defense weren’t promoting this power generation solution as useful for supporting troops in, or rather, near combat zones….
Scientists are saying that within 40-some years the cost of launching gear into space will have dropped enough for it to be feasible to build giant […]

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A company called Living Power System has developed a process wherein electricity — at this stage, enough to run relatively low-power devices like LED lights — is generated from soil. In s sort of a living fuel cell, microbes growing across an electrode planted in the earth generate an electron flow as they metabolize nutrients […]

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