Google has announced on its blog that the company has bought 20-year green power with a windfarm in Iowa. The deal includes 114 megawatts of wind power from the NextEra Energy Resources facility in Story County, Iowa, and this power is thought to be enough to supply some of the Google Data Centers’ needs. Since [...]
A battery powered house that has solar panels on top of it, and a smog-eating roof is not a fantasy anymore. KB Home and BYD, a China-based company created this amazing home in West Lancaster, California. As R. Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster told KB Home and BYD “I want the most energy-efficient house [...]
For the first time in history hydrogen was mixed with race fuel to power a 700 HP Trophy Truck on the roughest 500 mile course in history. Against all odds and a sea of skepticism from the off-road community Hessgen Hydrogen powered #88 lined up to do battle with the best in the business. It [...]
Given the public outrage over the largest oil spill in U.S. history, public awareness of solar energy has increased through recent speeches by President Obama about solar energy. This year’s annual day of recognition for the growth of clean, solar energy in the U.S. is SolarDay 2010 – Saturday, June 19. The premise of SolarDay [...]
The California State Assembly yesterday passed AB 2514, landmark legislation that will create a smarter, cleaner electric grid, increase the use of renewable energy, save Californians money by avoiding costly new power plants, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants through the use of energy storage technologies by utility companies. Authored by [...]
As part of the greening of its fleet, Verizon has purchased 576 Chevrolet Silverado Two-Mode Hybrid full-size pickups that deliver the city fuel economy of a four-cylinder sedan. The unique two-mode Silverado blends an internal combustion engine with battery-powered electric motors to offer customers the advanced technology needed to reduce fuel consumption by up to [...]
We like to write about interesting forms of advertisements that are eco-friendly, and Ricoh’s billboard is definitely green. Ricoh, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced the completion of its 100 percent solar powered electronic billboard, the Ricoh Eco Board, located at 3 Times Square at [...]
The Walmart Foundation today announced a $1.2 million dollar donation to the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) to install solar panels on 20 schools in five cities across the country. The five cities taking part in the program are Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Seattle. “The Walmart Solar School program will help [...]
The 2010 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China 2010), under the theme “For a Greener Tomorrow”, concluded at the China International Exhibition Center (New Center) in the beginning of May. With strong support and unprecedented enthusiasm from domestic and foreign automakers, Auto China 2010 achieved great success. A total of 990 vehicles were on display, [...]
With wind turbine (WT) emerging the fastest growing energy source in the world, there has been a continuous rise in the size of wind farms and capacity of WTs. This has required an increase in the operating voltage of wind farms to keep power transmission losses as low as possible. Electric drives in WT generators [...]
