Aug 7, 2008 – Alice Rawsthorn, The New York Times, “And Now, to Try And Catch the Wind.” Philippe Starck, known for his designs for Alessi, Kartell, hotelier Ian Schrager and the 2 euro coin. has now turned his attention to his Democratic Ecology line to be manufactured by the Italian industrial group Pramac. The [...]
Dell Computer introduced the Studio Hybrid as a “green” computer that it says is its “smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC.” They say it uses 70% less electricity than a standard PC antd that it is Energy Star 4.0 compliant. There is even an available bamboo sleeve to emphasize that it is [...]
Aug 6, 2008 – Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, “Baby, It’s Going to Be Cold Inside.” Despite the recent pullback in crude oil and heating oil prices from their recent peaks, the cost of heating oil [$4.50/gal] is still 36% higher than last winter [$3.30]; an increase of about $1,500 for the average home. [...]
Aug 6, 2008 – Steve Lohr, The New York Times, “An Energy Diet for Power-Hungry Household PCs”. Microsoft, a start-up Verdiem and the nonprofit Climate Savers Computing Initiative released Edison, free software for monitoring and controlling the amount of electricity a PC uses. There are about 1 billion PCs worldwide that account for 40% of [...]
Aug 5, 2008 – William Pentland notes in Forbes Online that “Alaska’s Waters Quietly Reopen to Drilling.“ Congress lifted the moratorium on drilling in the Northern Aleutian Basin in 2004. The Interior Department began the leasing process on Aug 1. This area has abundant stocks of fish; approximately 40% of the entire US catch. Although [...]
Aug 5, 2008 – Kate Galbraith in The New York Times reports “Pickens Plan Stirs Debate and Qualms.” Pickens has committed $58 million to promoting wind energy and natural gas for powering cars to reduce the US reliance on imported oil. He is a major investor in firms that do just that. Large industrial users [...]
Aug 5, 2008 – Larry Rohter in The New York Times reports that “Obama, in New Stand, Proposes Use of Oil Reserve”. “Senator Barack Obama altered his position on Monday to call for tapping the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices as he outlined an energy plan that contrasts with Senator John McCain’s [...]
Aug 3, 2008 – Dan Barry in The New York Times reports on wind farms in “In the Hills of Nebraska, Change is on the Horizon.” The newest crop in Ainsworth, Nebraska are 36 wind turbines. They are 230 feet high with “petal-like blades 131 feet long.” Ainsworth, which has an annual “Middle of Nowhere” [...]
Aug 1, 2008 – Edward Klump of Bloomberg News reported today that FPL Group, Inc. had a 48% drop in profits for the 2nd Q due to a “massive drop in profits for its renewable energy subsidiary.” FPL is the largest US producer of wind power. “FPL Energy, the alternative energy are of the company, [...]
July 30, 2008 – The Wall Street Journal reported that the Senate rejected an 8-year extension of the federal credits for solar power and 1-year extension for wind power due to expire at the end of 2008. There have never been long-term clean energy subsidies and that unpredictability has hindered the green energy industry’s development [...]
Aug 1, 2008 – The New York Times – Matthew L. Wald discussed 2 articles in Science magazine that discuss “advances in materials science and chemistry that could cut the cost” of “converting electricity into hydrogen for storage and then converting the hydrogen back to electricity when needed.” This system would allow a solar system [...]
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