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SunPower Corporation Hits the PG&E Jackpot!

SunPower Corporation, best known for making solar panels used on homes and businesses, will now build a utility-scale-size plant. The 250 megawatt (MW) facility, to be constructed in San Luis Obispo County, will start generating photovoltaic solar power for Pacific Gas & Electric in 2010 and reach full capacity in 2012. In addition, the utility [...]

The Windspire, A Renewable Wind Power Appliance

Mike Hess, president of Mariah Power, asserts that the Windspire wind turbine, a personal windmill, will generate 25 - 30% of the power in your home. The next generation Windspire will provide a 3 Kilowatt version which will generate 100% of the power in your home and will cost approximately $7,000. The Windspire plugs into [...]

Major Discovery to empower the Solar Industry

Daniel Nocera, a chemistry professor at MIT, has developed in the (Nocera Lab) “an unprecedented process that allows the sun’s energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases.”

The realization for this clean carbon-free energy to be deployed on a massive scale and significantly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, could be [...]

T. Boone Pickens - Addressing America’s Energy Crisis

T. Boone Pickens, the renowned billionaire oil investor, has announced a plan to supplant big oil and he believes it can be done in 10 years!
“Our dependence on imported oil is killing our economy. It is the single biggest problem facing America today. ”We’re paying $700 billion a year for foreign oil. It’s breaking [...]

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Promoting American Energy Independence
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Designing a Petroleum-Free Transportation Future

From as close as Detroit to as far away as China, twenty one students around the world were chosen to design and engineer a hydrogen-powered car for the year 2020 as a part of the Annual Design Internship Program, by General Motors.
Each team of interns had a designer, an engineer, a sculptor, and a trim [...]

21 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

Northrop Grumman - Monitoring Earth from Space

Hundreds of guests and employees attended an event featuring U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and California’s Lt. Governor John Garamendi and Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) chairman and CEO Ronald D. Sugar to highlight the contributions Earth observation satellites are making to global climate change monitoring. The event was held at the company’s Space Technology sector [...]

19 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

Shell Secures the Perdido Spar in the Gulf of Mexico

The Shell-operated Perdido Regional Development Spar has arrived in the ultra deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico and is currently being secured to the seafloor in about 8,000 feet of water. Once completed, the Perdido spar will be nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower and weigh as much as 10,000 cars. Perdido will be [...]

18 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

Fuel Cell Technology on a Roll

As environmental awareness increases, so does the need for better fuel alternatives. One of those energy sources is getting a lot of buzz - and moving from laboratory testing to the road.
Hydrogen fuel cells are electric energy sources that have the potential to power everything from cell phones to large buildings. For cars, they provide [...]

14 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

Hydrogen refueling station finds a home in Billerica

Nuvera Fuel Cells brings Massachussettes their first hydrogen refueling station. Hydrogen, an alternative fuel, is clean, reliable and environmentally friendly. In addition, it can be produced domestically for approximately $3 per gallon. The race is on to get fueling stations and vehicles such as the Honda FCX Clarity (which gets the equivalent [...]

12 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

Nevada leads the nation in geothermal energy

The Nevada division of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) garnered 28 Million in a recent auction of geothermal land totaling 105,000 acres. The leases are located in the counties of Churchill, Elko, Esmeralda, Humboldt, Lander, Mineral, Nye, and Pershing. Geothermal leases in the state of Nevada are up over 400% from the previous year. [...]

10 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued

150 Mile Per Gallon Plug-in Hybrid?

AFS Trinity Power has developed patent-pending technology that makes it possible for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to achieve 150 MPG, go 40 miles in all-electric mode, and use gasoline for additional unlimited miles in hybrid mode.

AFS TRINITY/RICARDO TECHNOLOGY Partner to develop the Extreme Hybrid.

8 Aug 2008 | dparise | | Continued