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Energy efficient Knoxville homes first in the country Knoxville homebuyers are getting a chance to buy the first affordable LEED houses in the country. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design,…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Apr. 10, 2009.
What is Tennessee doing?
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 28, 2009.
Small Wind Electric Systems: A U.S. Consumer's Guide produced for the Tennessee Valley Authority We in East Tennessee aren't exactly in the wind corridor, are we? Wind activities in Tennessee Small…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 24, 2009.
A little research into batteries will tell you that the problem is not power but storage, and there has been a lot of experimentation with capacitors. A small Texas company called Eestor claims to ha…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 19, 2009.
Last week, the collective wires at Energy Industry Today began buzzing about an LED breakthrough at University of Cambridge. In a nutshell, from Treehugger: Colin Humphries' team at Cambridge Univer…
Started by Eric Lykins Feb. 3, 2009.
I would like to welcome and encourage Greg Blencoe, CEO of Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc. (http://www.hydrogendiscoveries.com), which is a hydrogen pipeline start-up company that is based in Oak Ridge, T…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Jan. 14, 2009.
There is a lot of talk about coal in Tennessee since the Harriman incident A [URL="http://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/EAB_Web_Docket.ns issued last month[/URL] by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)…
Started by Eric Lykins Dec. 28, 2008.
Potentially the largest investment ever in the state of Tennessee, Clarksville selected for solar industry plant Knoxville designated a Solar American CIty For the first post, an attention grabber…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Dec. 14, 2008.
Change.gov is a unique new chapter of American history that you can be a part of. In addition to a weekly address with a user comment section, Obama's team provides a blog outlining meetings in the i…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Dec. 10, 2008.
Natural gas has a friend in the White House, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel LNG/CNG got it's first big push for use as a vehicle fuel with the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan developed by the…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Nov. 13, 2008.
53 Trillion Dollars That is the sum of the government's current liabilities and unfunded entitlement promises. It translates to $455,000 per American household - about 10 times the median annual inco…
Started by Eric Lykins Nov. 3, 2008.
FREEDM Systems Center The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center, headquartered on NC State University's Centennial Campus, is one of the latest Gen-III Engi…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Nov. 3, 2008.
Home-Brewed Biodiesel Goes Prime-Time: article from Wired Magazine Do It Yourself Guide Liberty Agrifuels, Inc. "American Made, Local, Sustainable" Vehicle Conversions Restaurant Grease Removal Dr…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by KnoxBioBenz Oct. 20, 2008.
Boone claims he’s been trying to get politicians to listen to him about energy since 1996, when he was asked to be the Texas chairman of Bob Dole’s presidential campaign. During a meeting with the ca…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 17, 2008.
If you find some good work, post a reply with a link. For starters, read Ron A. Rhodes An Empowered Organization to Fight America's Greatest Challenge - Complacency: July 16, 2008. I am reminded by…
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 9, 2008.
Here's a suggestion. Maybe it's a dumb idea, maybe not. Major companies in America like Coca Cola, Walmart, McDonalds, etc ... all have truck fleets. I'm not sure if they own their own truck fleets…
Started by Danny Tran Oct. 8, 2008.
Hi all, My name is John Moats. My friends call me Turtle John. We've just opened a brand new web store. It is dedicated to low cost wind and solar equipment. Please give us a visit if you like what…
Started by John Moats Oct. 2, 2008.
Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 1, 2008.
I was wanting some input on the subject of biofuels. I came across an interesting article that leads me to believe that besides lower emissions, which indeed are important, soy bean and corn based fu…
Started by Jeff Thilking Sep. 25, 2008.
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