HURRICANE-FORCE GALES AND HEAVY RAIN BATTER BRITAIN

FALLEN trees, broken powerlines and disrupted transport caused chaos across the country as 110mph gales and heavy rain battered Britain. As millions returned to work, hurricane force gales and rain...

Wind-powered supercar

Former hippy speeds into new energy ageBy Ayesha Durgahee and Matthew Knight, CNNJuly 25, 2011 -- Updated 0957 GMT (1757 HKT)Wind powers new energy age(CNN) -- It looks flash, goes faster than a V12 Ferrari, but this is no ordinary gas-guzzling sports car...

Amazing Rotating Tower

Amazing Rotating Tower The Dynamic Architecture Building, which will be constantly in Motion changing its Shape, will be able to generate Electric Energy for itself as well as for other Buildings. ...

GWS Technologies contract to WindPower

GWS Technologies chose WindPower Innovations as the services and equipment provider for the 1500 acre Colorado Plateau wind project’s first phase. Wind Power’s services will include crane services, construction and maintenance of turbines, etc. for the commercial plant...

Out of body experience-missed the news

No news It was Friday night and I am tired of cooking all of the meals. So, I called her at work and asked, “Can we go out for dinner?” She said that would be fine and in the end, I got to chose my favorite...

Vancouver hit with high winds Sunday night

The Washington and Vancouver Island news services were warning residents about the possibility of late night gusts but there was little mention in the local Vancouver news about tonight's wind storm.   As of 4am PT, the city is being pounded by some big winds coming...

The boon of clean energy

What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration, hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive,...

N'or easter Rocks Boston!...not really

OK...as I sat here last night watching the weather forecasts, in great anticipation, of another storm hitting New England in three(3) days I contemplated on what I should do! Naturally, as we all know, it may be...

Construction Starts On Grouse Mountain Wind Turbine

Construction on a 65-metre (213 feet) tall wind turbine is set to start on Wednesday, according to the newspaper Metro. The turbine was approved by the District of North Vancouver in October 2008 in a close vote which ended 4-3. The project was delayed in July due to safety...

Water: The nuclear industry's Achilles' heel

Senator Barbara Boxer, the chairwoman of the Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, recently brought added attention to the nuclear industry when she said, "there will be a nuclear title in the bill"...

Hurricane Felicia Weakens To Tropical Storm

Hurricane Felicia that peaked as a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean last week lost strength and turned into a tropical storm before its scheduled landfall near Hawaii on Sunday. As a precautionary...

China wants to cut emissions by 20% by 2020

China has launched what they are calling a 'green revoultion', in a plan to use wind and solar power to reduce their carbon emissions by 20% by 2020, which would match the goal set by the western world. A fifth of China's energy needs would come from renewable energy sources...

World's largest wind farm to be built off UK coast

The world's largest wind farm has been given the green light to be built 12 miles off the Kent coast in the UK, and it will be operational before the Olympics in 2012. There will be 341 wind turbines over a 90 mile...

A closer look at the Green Energy Act

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper’s comments on Bill 150, the proposed Green Energy and Green Economy Act, highlight several provisions that may have effects outside the scope of renewable energy development in...

Pushback against centralized energy will benefit fuel cells

Industrial countries currently generate most of their electricity through large centralized power plants, but the process is evolving.  Large centralized facilities became the dominant form of developing...

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