Posts Tagged clean energy

The World’s Most Amazing Wind Farms | Ecoble

Wind farm development is playing a huge role in a clean energy future. While mass wind power may offer a beneficial energy alternative, the construction of wind farms creates a great deal of controversy – from the destruction of natural habitats and dangers to birds and bats to the actual effectiveness of wind as an energy source. Some even argue t

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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter

For the homeowner, the closest you’ll get to feeling like you’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker you get from your local utility. But that could change very soon, because a major retail store, Ace Hardware, will soon be selling a very cool new home wind turbine at about half the usual installed price.

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Wind Power Growth Up 39% Due To Stimulus Investment

While debates about the economy, unemployment and the effectiveness of the stimulus plan continue to rage throughout the country, their appears to be a bright spot for proponents of clean energy stimulus spending.

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Future Science: Predictions for the Next 50 Years

Cloud science? Solar-power primacy? Affordable clean-energy cars? Space colonies? Super-centenarians galore? These are some of the visions put forward for the next 50 years in science and technology.

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10 Easy Sources of Clean Energy

Sure, you’ve heard of wind and solar power, biofuels, hydroelectric, tidal and wave power, but Mother Nature provides an endless bounty of alternative energy sources beyond those that we use today.

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$555 Billion Sahara Solar Energy Belt Gets Financial Backing

A giant step has been made in what will be the world’s largest renewable energy project. While previously just a grand vision for the production of clean energy in the Saharan desert, the project now has a core group of backers and a signed agreement between 12 companies wanting to move forward with the $555 billion renewable energy belt.

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California Kicks Off $75M Green Jobs Training Program

..touted as the nation’s largest state-sponsored green jobs training program. Paid for in part with stimulus funds, the Clean Energy Workforce Training Program aims to prepare 20,000 California adults for a range of green collar jobs, such as green building design, solar panel installation, and sustainable landscape, among other professions.

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