Complete solution to economic and energy crisis

As economic gloom and doom continues to spread, both the policy makers and private enterprise are overlooking a viable, feasible way to lift the economy in the present and to realize vast savings over the long term. What if I were to tell you that there is presently a...

After Maldives, Philippines to go green: Taps geothermal energy

This Monday the Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed inaugurated a 30 turbines wind farm which with an installed capacity of 75 MW of power. Now its Philippines which is looking to tap into another...

Paris goes green with new underground energy project

The city of Paris has launched a new project to provide green heating for a whole district of the city as they plan to extract piping hot water from about two kilometres below the surface of the earth. This is called 'geothermal drilling' and just north of the city they have...

Philippines Leads the Way on Renewable Energy in SE Asia

The Philippines took a bold step recently to pass a Renewable Energy Act. Like most of its neighbours, the country had allowed coal fired power  to fuel a fast-paced load growth despite the higher rates of...

Hawaii: No New Coal Plants, 70% Renewable Energy by 2030

Hawaii commits to minimizing dirty fuels- this is the most ambitious goal I've heard of in the US. Solar, wind and geothermal all have great promise, and the state is adopting a variety of economic incentives for renewable energy, including tax breaks, "feed-in" tariffs and...

Google Enhances Green Technology Development

Reproduced from personal website: " Mega search engine Google.com, today announced an investment of $10.25 million in advancing the development of green technologies. Google is supporting a technology called,...

Solar Hot Air Balloons, and Solar Kites. News&Opinion

The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano   The high cost of energy is slamming us hard in these current times. Saddam Hussein really wasn't the villian after all in the International scheme...

Government to speed up formation of geothermal company

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The State Ministry of State Enterprises (BUMN) is to speed up the formation of a new geothermal mining company to explore and exploit geothermal potentials in the country, a spokesman said."We do need to set up several new state companies soon, among...

President launches four power projects worth US$236 million

"The four projects launched at a ceremony on the sidelines of the international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change here, are located in several provinces. They...

Indonesia has 27,000 MW of potential geothermal energy sources

"As such, geothermal energy was expected to meet the people`s need for electricity and at the same time improve their welfare.Purnomo said Indonesia now had a total installed electricity generation capacity of 25,000 MW which would continue to be increased following the...

Market for geothermal heating heats up

Homeowners, builders look into eco-friendly system   PORTLAND -- More Portland-area homes will stay warm this winter with heat from the earth.   Home heating contractors say they've had a rush of...

RI Offers power sector investment opportunity to U.S business delegation

" "Our energy policy now is building coal-fired power plants. And we are also using hydro and geothermal energy in power generation because it is cleaner," Minister of Industry Fahmi Idris said after receiving a 30-member American business delegation grouped in the US-ASEAN...

Hot New Study: Earth's Heat Can Power Our Future

"The extraordinary amount of heat seething below Earth's hard rocky crust could help supply the United States with a significant fraction of the electricity it will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact, scientists now...

Domain trademark troubles kill renewable energy association

The Earth Energy Society of Canada has closed its doors after being forced to defend itself against a trademark violation lawsuit over website domains that included the term "geoexchange". "We offered to transfer ownership of the domains to the plaintiff for free, if they had...

Solar Power Discombobulator

" Cheap, Superefficient Solar Solar-power modules that concentrate the power of the sun are becoming more viable. "

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