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Pepperbox Studio Makes Music Using Renewable Energy

Songwriter Kristina Stykos is making music in a unique way. Stykos is the owner, engineer and producer of a music recording studio located in rural Vermont.  The Pepperbox Studio is not your run-of-the-mill recording studio. Unlike traditional recording studios, Pepperbox Studio relies on alternative energy to record music. The off-the-grid studio, located on the top [...]

Michigan’s Energy Giant Goes Green

Detroit, Michigan, may be best known as the world’s automotive capital, but it’s also home to the state’s largest energy company, DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE).  When it comes to energy, DTE has been as traditional and they come. The company’s energy business is largely comprised of the utility operations of Detroit Edison and Michigan Consolidated Gas [...]

Jet Engines the Inspiration for New Wind Power Technology

When the trend is supported by the technology – a real talented technology, it becomes almost impossible to stop it.  That is precisely what has happened with the new technology for wind power generation developed by FloDesign. Their design is based on a Jet Engine Technology. It captures the wind through a small hole creating [...]

Wind Turbines Get Smarter

New work from researchers at Denmark’s National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Risø DTU, is expected to bring smarter wind turbines to commercial wind farms in the near future.  The research should allow for greater energy production from wind turbines using the new technology.  The team has successfully integrated a laser-based anemometer into the spinner of [...]

Clean Energy Funding Increased in US Government Budget

When it is said that United States is graduating towards a clean energy economy – it was meant that way only. The growing importance of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) within DOE is now more palpable than ever. The budget of FY 2011 testifies the same. It has been allocated a fund of 2.36 [...]

House Voice on Energy Independence and Global Warming to Make Case for 2010 Action on Energy and Climate Change

Rep. Ed Markey Part of Full Court Press on Critical Energy Legislation
Legislative heavyweight on energy issues, Representative Ed Markey, D-Mass., will meet with industry leaders at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington D.C., February 28 – March 2, 2010. Rep. Markey is expected to outline how House Democrats and the Obama administration will move forward [...]

Rise in Ocean Temperatures Causing Severe Hurricanes

A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, a low-pressure system that usually forms in the tropics and has winds that circulate counterclockwise near the earth’s surface. Storms are considered hurricanes when their wind speeds surpass 74 MPH. Every hurricane arises from the combination of warm water and moist warm air. Tropical thunderstorms drift out [...]

Power Industry Speaks Out on Impending Energy Legislation

Utility Leaders David Crane, Anthony Earley and David Ratcliffe to Discuss Industry Response to Sweeping Law Changes – Congress is set to possibly adopt the most sweeping environmental and energy law in generations to address issues such as energy efficiency, renewables development and carbon emissions. Caught in this tidal wave of change are utilities and [...]

Atmospheric CO2 Causing Impacts on the Marine Environment

Antarctic marine biologist Jim McClintock, Ph.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Biology says increasing acidity of the world’s oceans is a growing threat to marine species and is a definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively affecting the marine environment. The [...]

This Year in Wind Power

Over 7,000 MW of wind power are expected to be installed this year in the U.S. That’s down from 2008’s record 8,545 MW, but that still would make it the second best year in the history of the industry. Not bad, at a time when the rest of the economy tanked and the value of your primary financial policy driver became all but worthless.