Archive for July, 2009

The first Kitty Hawk moment of the 21st Century took place in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, 2009. On that bright blue morning, a hydrogen cell experiment paid off for the German Aerospace Center. The Antares DLR H-2, a motor glider completely fueled by hydrogen fuel cells, took off under its own power into the bright, blue sky above Hamburg Airport and flew its way into the history books.

The Sydney Theater is about to become host to Australia’s largest building-mounted solar installation. Cate Blanchett has a hand in the 2,000 panel installation. When the project is finished sometime in 2010, The Wharf, the building that houses the Sydney Theater, will reduce it’s on-grid energy draw by 70%. Read more at the Sydney Theater [...]

Bourne Energy introduced its smallest off-grid generator yet – the Renewable Energy Backpack Generator. Weighing in at under 30 pounds, it’s a man-portable hydroelectric converter that can be carried into the most remote places. Since it’s powered by water, there’s no need for bringing in additional fuel, and no carbon emissions. Depending on river current, [...]

Over at the Toronto Star, Tyler Hamilton muses about the emerging players in the Green Tech movement. Big names like Microsoft and Google have entered the market with end consumer power management and monitoring software apps, but experts are betting on unknown names to come up with innovative and in-the-long-run highly profitable smart grid technology. [...]

Wondering what the heck the President has been up to for the past five months? If you listen to right-wing pundits, he’s been busy gutting the economy and giving the country away to foreign powers, buckling in to big money interests and betraying every part of the coalition that put him into office.
Over at Earth911, [...]

Wisconsin has the capacity to generate and use far more wind power than it currently is using – but it has no way to get that power to the people. According to Wind on the Wires, a coalition of wind energy advocates, “Transmission is the glass ceiling”. The American Wind Energy Association says that over [...]

China is considering raising their energy efficiency targets again. According to China Daily, China will aim for producing 10% of its energy needs from sustainable sources by 2010, 15% by 2020. Some government officials say that China will hit 20% renewable energy use by 2020. Catchy slogan in there somewhere – 20% by 2020, hm?
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Landmarks around the country are getting green facelifts. Check out why the owners of the Empire State Building, Chicago’s Sears Tower and other national landmarks are greenovating.
If you’re looking for more reasons to make your home renovation a greenovation, look no further than this article on landmark buildings going green. Chris
Kahn reports on high profile [...]

From the U.K. Metro, a green energy idea straight out of the comic books
Placing giant mirrors in deserts such as the Sahara and using them to reflect light on to generators could provide large amounts of clean energy.
Wouldn’t that be cruel to the camels?