Oil Giant Looks To The Future

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Oil Giant Looks To The Future

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Pop quiz: Which company can lay claim to the title as the world’s largest producer of Geothermal Energy? Times up- If you guessed oil giant Chevron, you’re right.
Chevron is in fact the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy, a renewable resource that generates near inexhaustible power while producing virtually no greenhouse gas emissions.
In Indonesia, […]

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Tags: alternative energy · transportation · Oil · Energy efficiency · Hydrogen · Renewable energy · Business

Nissan Aims for “Greener” Pastures

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Automaker Nissan has announced word of its forthcoming Green Program with the byline: A symbiosis of people, vehicles and nature. By model year 2010, Nissan hopes to sprinkle a few new environmentally friendly additions to its model line in the form of a 3-liter automobile which would consume only 3 liters of gasoline per […]

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Tags: alternative energy · electric cars · transportation · Business

The Plot to Save the Planet

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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Tags: miscellaneous · alternative energy · hybrid cars · environment · fuels · ethanol · electric cars · wind energy · transportation · photovoltaic solar power · Building · Climate change · Solar power · Algae · Energy efficiency · Ethical investing · Architecture · Renewable energy · Nuclear power · Business · Solar thermal power

So many wind power designs: Detroit and Seattle could help

June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

We have all seen pictures of large expanses of traditional wind turbines. Each one turning in the wind.
But some of us are engineers and inventors. Some of us think: There must be a better way.
I have looked at Selsam’s parallel blades, I have studied the quiet revolution website. I have already written about […]

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Tags: wind energy · Business

Department of Energy: 500 Industrial Assessments

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In this news release, the Department of Energy touts its assessment of different manufacturing facilities.
And once you get pass the news release and look at all of the information that the DOE brings to bear in these assessments, you can see how simple saving millions of dollars can be.
If you have never been in a […]

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Tags: Energy efficiency · Initiatives · Business