Archive for December, 2009
Green Energy Videos
For 2010, this site will be your source for Green Energy Videos. At least two major news websites encourage us to place video on our site. You can now look at GreenEnergyForEarth.com and play the videos here. It is easier than going directly to the providers website and looking through all the videos if you [...]
Merry Christmas and Ways to Have a Green Christmas
Merry Christmas.
There are several ways to utilize green products at Christmas and beyond.
LED lights for decorations save a lot of energy, up to 95% less. The remaining bulbs in an LED strand will remain lit when one burns out. LED lights can last 100,000 hours.
Buy locally made gifts. They come without the added cost of [...]
SunPower and SolarPower Ltd. Dedicate 50-Kw Solar Power System for HP in Israel
Dec 21, 2009 – SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a US-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, and SolarPower Ltd., an Israeli solar power system integrator and project developer, today dedicated a 50-kw rooftop solar power system at HP’s Indigo division facility in Kiryat-Gat, Israel.
SolarPower designed and built the system with [...]
Siemens Working on Integrating Electric Cars into the Public Power Grid
Dec 22, 2009 – Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid. The development of methods to rapidly recharge the cars is just one of the company’s contributions to Denmark’s Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid. Practical testing [...]
Let’s Get Wind Power Off the Ground
Dec 21, 2009 – Frank Nelson writes in Miller-McCune, “Let’s Get Wind Power Off the Ground.“ A new crop of entrepreneurs believes that wind power can and should take to the skies — literally. Some scientists, academics and entrepreneurs are convinced that to meet the world’s energy needs and roll back the ravages of global [...]
When Incandescent and Halogen Bulbs are Preferred
Although many incandescent and halogen bulbs can be replaced with compact fluorescent or LED lights, there are times when traditional light is preferred. Although CF’’s have become better, the warm light of incandescent bulbs are preferred in some rooms at home.
Halogen bulbs produce a brighter whiter light and are popular in nothern areas. They can help [...]
Ad Continued: Chevron Tells You To Invest in Energy Efficiency
Dec 21, 2009 – Chevron is running print advertisements headlined, “Every dollar invested in energy efficiency today could return two dollars in energy savings.” That statement is meaningless by itself. Everyone wants to know how soon they’ll get back that $2. Further down in the ad, it quotes a McKinsey & Company report that states [...]
Law of Unintended Consequences: LED Traffic Lights
Dec 16, 2009 – What can go wrong with LED traffic lights that use 90% less energy by producing less heat? There is such little heat produced that when there is a snow storm and the snow is that particular “sticking snow”, it covers over the traffic lights and there is not enough heat to [...]
Dec 16, 2009 -
Cleantech Forum San Francisco, on February 24-26th , 2010 at The Palace Hotel will help define the maturing cleantech market. The Forum is themed “Taking Cleantech to Scale” to focus on corporate integration of cleantech into growth strategies, new financing for innovation and infrastructure and global government engagement [...]
Green State Vermonters for Fossil Fuel
Dec 14, 2009 – Would you believe Vermonters want more fossil fuel? They do if they can get rid of the current nuclear power that accounts for 80% of the power produced in the state by Vermont Yankee, a 620-mw nuclear power plant near Brattleboro. Read Jonathan Fahey’s article, “Vermonters for Fossil Fuel” in the [...]



