Plasma burners that use microwave energy to form a plasma by using some of the electricity generated by a generator that produces oxygen plasma could burn coal that is in a slurry more efficiently and also ignite the water by breaking down the water into hydrogen and oxygen. That means a plasma could turn water into fuel and no fuel cell would be needed. One of the contributers to this site touts the efficiency of microwave energy which would use about 5% of the electricity generated to produce…
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Added by Rick Badman on December 15, 2009 at 3:24pm —
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Harvesting solar power from space through orbiting solar farms sounds extremely interesting. Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a manufacturer of solar panels, has decided to join an AUD $25 billion Japanese project to construct a massive solar farm in space within three decades.
Japan has already started working towards achieving its goal by developing a technology for 1-gigawatt solar farm, which would include four square kilometers of solar panels that will be stationed 36,000 kilometers above the e…
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Added by Renew_H2_Man on November 20, 2009 at 4:08pm —
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Despite the favorable wind resource conditions the biggest hurdle faced by the wind industry in trying to increase the amount of wind development is the current state of transmission rules that create economic penalties for intermittent (interruptible) resources such as wind.
By firming the resource and providing capacity value, Compressed Air Energy Storage (“CAES”) may be able to mitigate many transmission related costs that are currently seen as onerous for wind development. The biggest inst…
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Added by Laurence W. Tobin on November 19, 2009 at 12:43pm —
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Despite the favorable wind resource conditions the biggest hurdle faced by the wind industry in trying to increase the amount of wind development is the current state of transmission rules that create economic penalties for intermittent (interruptible) resources such as wind.
By firming the resource and providing capacity value, Compressed Air Energy Storage (“CAES”) may be able to mitigate many transmission related costs that are currently seen as onerous for wind development. The biggest inst…
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

(LEED) Green Building Rating System™
LEED is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators the tools they need to…
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Added by USA GREEN JOBS NOW.ORG on November 9, 2009 at 6:46am —
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) was created in response to what we see as the extremely negative consequences of our country’s ever-increasing dependence on foreign oil, and we believed strongly that the air quality benefits of alternative fuels would help improve not only the environment, but people’s health.
AFV is founded and co-sponsored by WIH Resource Group (http://www.wihrg.com) and Waste Savings, Inc. (http://www.wastesavings.net), both companies are based in Phoenix Arizona. Their resp…
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Added by Bob Wallace on October 20, 2009 at 6:23am —
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Added by Jeffrey Michael Paganini on September 29, 2009 at 8:27pm —
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Trading energy and pollution credits under the proposed Cap and Trade bill doesn't exactly make sense to me. Instead of implementing a $50 to $100 per month electricity "tax" that ultimately becomes a "slush fund" for political supporters and future adminstrations; we can accomploish significant energy revitalization in the private sector. We just need practical programs that promote the right message and includes soft "mandates" for implementation such as:
HOME ENERGY REINVESTMENT MANDATEs
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Added by Mark Feagins on July 31, 2009 at 7:26am —
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Natural gas a clean answer
6:00 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009
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Re: "Climate bill wins House approval -- Stringent limits on emissions could affect Texas the most," Saturday news story.
The cap and trade energy package will do nothing to reduce our dependency on foreign oil for many years to come. We are at least a decade away from having a reliable and affordable electric car that will go beyond 250 miles before needing recharging.
While we continue to founder as a nation to develop…
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Added by Mike Pickens on July 1, 2009 at 3:22pm —
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The following proposal shows how it may be possible to phase in wind and solar to generate energy savings to subsidize our health care system reforms.
The current proposals in Washington include new deficit spending of $120 Billion per year to pay for proposed health care reform and new industrial taxes on fossil fuel burning companies which will be passed on to consumers in higher energy prices...........a pass-thru tax.
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A household using 1200 KWH per month x $0.18 per KWH = $216 pe…
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Added by Mark Feagins on June 26, 2009 at 8:42am —
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Chronos Consulting www.chronosconsulting.com has acquired an interest in OilProfessionals.com a specialist upstream oil and gas recruiter and also OilAdvisers.com. These will add greatly to our portfolio of services to clients.
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Added by Dr Simon Harding on June 26, 2009 at 4:01am —
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The articles I`ve been reading lately about the technology for hybrids is a start.The constant content of the media from the auto-makers makes it sound like were accomplishing milestones.A bit more emphasis on some of the facts would be nice.If we are plugging in our cars into the grid,we are not burning gasoline.Were burning something else,somewhere else.The new Tesla automobile sounds like we are really getting somewhere.That car shows some pretty good stats with a top speed of 125 m.p.h.,exce…
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Gazprom gets major deal to supply gas to U.S.
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April 9, 2009, 6:32AM
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MOSCOW — The world’s largest natural gas company, Russia’s Gazprom, has after years of attempts finally gotten a foothold in the U.S., the world’s biggest gas market.
A supply agreement, part of a multipart contract reached with Royal Dutch Shell, was announced late Wednesday.
The contract, signed in Moscow by Gazprom CEO Ale…
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Added by Ben Beaty on April 9, 2009 at 8:09am —
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Let us say what we mean and mean what we say, as we are instructed in Creator/Christ's Holy Word The Bible.
I'll stand for Jesus.stream.mp3 Consider 2 Thes.2 ?
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Added by William "Leland" Luster on March 27, 2009 at 10:10am —
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If the US had ratified Kyoto it would have joined 37 industrialized countries and the EU in an effort to reduce GHG emissions between 2008-2012. With the US sitting on the sideline, the rest of the world has forged ahead with an assortment of policy and incentive experiments with varyin…
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Added by Brandon Jordan on February 25, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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The deafening silence of our drive back from Schulenburg Texas to Dallas made me reminisce the sight of immense wind turbines silhouetted against the Texas skies on our way back from our holiday vacation in Cloudcroft New Mexico. The ever-present breeze that sweeps the treeless T…
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Added by Ulysses "ULY" Labilles on February 21, 2009 at 9:00am —
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THE PICKENS PLAN NEEDS A DETAILED PROJECT PLAN -- FOCUS ON EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS
After all, they lambasted Timothy Franz Geithner for not having detail in his banking rescue plan.
Let's give them what they want in detail and we'll get the money.
Suggest a detailed project plan be developed showing:
Detailed Tasks.
Task Completion Dates.
Task Completion Costs.
Employee man hours required to accomplish task.
If we are going to deliver on reducing imported oil by 35 percent, we need a 300 page Mi…
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Added by Ken on February 11, 2009 at 7:37pm —
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I'll be meeting with Congressman Russ Carnahan on Monday February 9. Please stay tuned for updates on outcomes, actions, and next steps...
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Added by Chris Bylander on February 7, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Markey Chairman of the select committee on energy Independence and Global warming challenged the executives to pledge to invest 10 percent of their profits to develop renewable energy and give up $18 billion in tax breaks over 10 years so money could be funneled to support other energy and conservation. The executives said the companies already are spending billions of dollars - more than $3.5 billion over the last five years - on renewable fuels such as wind energy and biodiesel, but rejected a…
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Added by Brandon Jordan on January 31, 2009 at 7:40am —
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DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Choose one or both databases to search:
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Added by Brandon Jordan on January 31, 2009 at 7:26am —
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