Archive for the 'NATURAL GAS' Category

Ads Continued: Shell

Nov 3, 2010 – Who’s advertising their clean energy? Shell.  Who’s advertising their doing good things in  China? Shell.  Here’s the title: “Let’s Make Feng’s Washing Even Cleaner.  Let’s Go.”  “What’s the secret to a cleaner wash?  It could be natural gas.”  You thought it was solar power, did you?  “When used to generate electricity, [...]

Voters Repudiate President Obama and Democrats; What About Green Energy?

Nov 2, 2010 – It seems that voters across most of the United States are sending the Republicans back to Washington in control of the House, but the Democrats may keep control of the Senate. What are the results in your district?  How will these results affect green energy, solar power, wind power, hybrid cars, [...]

USA Election Results for Congress, Senate, Governor

Nov 2, 2010 – Whom did you vote for today?  How will your vote help the green energy movement?  Are any new congressmen, congresswomen or Senator in your district proponents of wind energy, solar energy, cap and trade, natural gas, shale oil, etc? Please leave your comments here.

News From Innovation Florida [A government agency]

Algenol Biofuels opens its $10 million, state-of-the-art, biofuels and green chemistry lab and R&D facility. (more) Nov 2, 2010 – Gulf Power launches a $5.3 million renewable energy facility that will use landfill gas to power more than 900 homes. (more) Nopetro, a natural-gas filling station company, is setting up shop in Tallahassee and has [...]

President Obama and Midterm Election Effects on Green Energy

Nov 1, 2010 – President Obama has been a proponent of green energy initiatives.  Tomorrow is the  midterm election.  What do you think will be the outcome and its effects on alternative energy initiatives (hybrids, solar, wind, geothermal, cap and trade) going forward?  Please leave your comments here.

Siemens to Supply Key Components for New CO2 Capture Project in Canada

Oct 27, 2010 – Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract from the engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin, Toronto, Ontario, to deliver two vapor compressors for a post combustion CO2 and SO2 capture plant at Unit 3 at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, Saskatchewan. The coal-fired Boundary Dam power plant, with an installed [...]

Wanted Green Energy Writers & Bloggers

Does global warming concern you?  Is the environment your passion?  Have a zeal for Green life? Want to discuss, comment, learn, rant about these and more? Blog/ Write on a site that helps you take your opinion to the world and make your voice heard.  Let your opinion make a difference in the world.  Share [...]

Global Clean Energy Forum, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept 30-Oct 1, 2010

July 27, 2010 – Join energy business leaders, government policymakers, financiers, NGOs and global thought leaders at the Global Clean Energy Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, September 30 – October 1, 2010.  This meeting is convened by the International Herald Tribune and Diario Economico.  Get details and  register at http://www.IHTCleanEnergy.com.  Please leave your comments here if [...]

Dash for Gas Raises Environmental Worries

Jul 14, 2010 – It’s never easy.  Didn’t we learn in high school physics that for every action there is an opposite reaction.  Just when we read that some technology is going to solve or at least mitigate our current problems, along comes a new group or study that identifies an unforeseen problem.  Especially when  [...]

Admiral Says BP Oil Pipe Is Cut, a Key Step in Halting Leak

Jun 3, 2010 – Campbell Robertson,  Joseph Berger & Henry Fountain reported in The New York Times reported today: Delicately manipulating a 20-foot-long shear at depths of nearly a mile, technicians successfully snipped a key riser pipe on Thursday in their effort to contain the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a stricken [...]

Best States for Alternative Fuel Stations

The following slide show from CNBC shows the best states for finding Alternative Fuel for your automobile or other vehicle. Best States for Greener Driving

For Earth Day, 7 New Rules to Live By

QT423YZ33XPT  Apr 24, 2010 – John Tierney reports on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in The New York Times.  He has some information from Stewart Brand’s new book, “Whole Earth Discipline,” in which he urges greens to “question convenient fables.” How on target were the green movement leaders over the last 4 decades? “1. [...]

Loans and Stimulus For Alternative Energy

This video with Steven Chu,  Energy Secretary, discusses the future demand for alternative energy.

Mar 5, 2010 — Jad Mouawad reports in The New York Times that FPL Group “is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.  Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the … utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set of 190,000 shimmering mirrors and thousands of steel pylons that stretch as far [...]

Bloom Box Generates Electric Power From Many Sources