Encore Energy Systems and its patented grey-water geothermal heat exchanger technology selected by Prairie Hills Motorsport Club as Green Alliance solution provider. BRIGHTON, MI., September 13, 2007 — Encore Energy Systems, Inc. (Other OTC: ENCS), a rapidly growing diversified energy company announces exciting partnership with a motorsport facility featuring the longest track in the Western Hemisphere. Prairie Hills Motorsport Club, …
Read More »Energy Conservation in a Few Simple Steps – Save the Planet for the Generations to Come
By saving energy you can have a fatter bank balance. But more than that, individual efforts for energy conservation mean cleaner and greener society as a whole. Energy conservation means lowering the demands of such fossil fuels as coal, oil, and natural gas.
Read More »City on Fire
Driving home after work during the second week of March, the setting sun was spectacular: a molten, pink-red globe, its colours intensified by a thick shroud of smog. ‘There is a price to pay for skies that look like this,’ I couldn’t help but think. I had seen a similar sunset over 10 years before, in South Africa, when a …
Read More »Make Your Energy Bill Fall – A Few Simple Tips
With concerns about global climate change and rising energy costs, saving electricity is a big deal. Most people are trying to find ways to reduce their energy consumption without significantly changing their lifestyles. Fortunately, there are a lot of simple steps that can be taken to use less energy. Here are just a few ways to reduce your power consumption and your global footprint.
Read More »Solar Panels
Discover how the use of solar panels is likely to change over coming years, including the use of other renewable energy sources. Currently, the use of solar panels is on very small scale compared to the use of fossil fuels. This does not go for just solar energy, but also wind energy, geothermal, and tidal. More: continued here
Read More »Saving Energy In The Kitchen
Outside of ordering take out, there are a wide variety of ways you can save electricity and energy in the kitchen. More: continued here
Read More »Saving Energy on Heating and Cooling
For the energy conscious person, this strategy could be called “5 degrees of separation”. Looking to save on your electricity bill, or just concerned about power use in light of environmental issues? Heating and cooling our homes is one of our biggest energy sinks, along with inefficient vehicles. By taking a few steps, you can reduce the amount of electricity …
Read More »Biofuels Revolution – experts think it is happening
At the Going Green 2007 conference last week a panel sat down to discuss biofuels and whether the steamroller was actually moving on thius energy front. The consensus from the panel of CEO was that there is indeed a biofuels revolution going on and that big things are going to happen in the near term for biofuels.
Read More »How is BioDiesel Made
The world’s demand for oil has increased in the past 50 years. This is evident as more people own and drive cars and an increase in the number of passengers hopping on airplane for business and vacation. More: continued here
Read More »Your Electronics Are Energy Hogs!
It seems that the more things that are invented to make my life more efficient, the higher my electric bill goes. Here are some tips to help reduce the cost of operating all those electronics. More: continued here
Read More »Energy Efficient Laundry
Since it’s not practical to take your laundry down to the creek and beat it with a rock to save money, try these energy savings strategies instead. More: continued here
Read More »Moving Mountains To Follow The Sun
Fuelled (excuse the pun) by a recent Royal Decree sanctioned two years ago and redrafted earlier this year, which gives very advantageous rates to generators for producing such renewable energy, wind and solar farms have popped up all over Spain.
Read More »Going Green- Investors Have Bright Outlook for Green Tech
At the Going Green 2007 conference in Davis CA the world of CEO’s and VC’s are meshing in a mashup of networking, demos, and large scale lovefest of Green Technology. I think this is a terrific thing frankly. I came to the event to see if the buzz was real. Is the world ready for real green tech development on …
Read More »Time is right for investing in Green Technologies
We spoke with VC Raj Atluru at the Going Green 2007 conference about the prospects for widespread growth in the alternative energy and green technology sectors this year. Raj tells us about the global market and his assessment of where the money will come from to launch these exciting new technologies into the mainstream.
Read More »Solar thermal company creating high tech plants – Ausra
The sun comes to the southwestern US reliably for so many days every year that is is like a beacon to the rising number of solar energy companies around the world. Ausra was founded in Australia a couple years ago but last year they moved to Palo Alto in order to enter the US market. Ausra builds solar thermal technology …
Read More »Aussie company lets light flow into buildings to make things just right!
Just as a lizard can find the perfect spot in the sun or shade to control its body temperature, Australian award winning solar heating and cooling innovation Sun Lizard can help heat or cool offices and factories while cutting energy bills and greenhouse emissions. www.alternativefuels.com.au
Read More »Energy Crisis or Political Profiteering?
This article is an energy review and update, as well as a critique of US and Western energy policies, or a lack thereof. This is not about Eastern energy policies because they will follow our political and market leads in dealing with a necessary and long overdue shift out of the archaic energy infrastructures that have been perpetuated for corporate …
Read More »Ausra secures Series A funding to build and operate utility-scale solar thermal electric power plants
Khosla Ventures and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers back technology and utility veterans in making renewable energy price competitive with fossil fuels AlwaysOn GoingGreen Conference, DAVIS, Calif.—Sept. 10, 2007—Ausra Inc., the developer of utility-scale [tag]solar thermal power[/tag] technology, has secured more than $40 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firms Khosla Ventures and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers …
Read More »ZENN Motor Company brings Electric Car to Going Green 2007
ZENN Motor Company of Toronto CA is showing off their electric car at the Going Green 2007 conference in Davis California. CEO Ian Clifford spent a few minutes telling us about their electric cars as well as their alliance with battery storage company EEStor of Texas. EEStor is on the verge of releasing some revolutionary new battery technology that could reshape the market forever. Ian gives us his take on their technology as well as the current state of the electric car market.
Read More »Solar Panels – the ins and outs
Currently, the use of solar panels is on very small scale compared to the use of fossil fuels. This does not go for just solar energy, but also wind energy, geothermal, and tidal. The use of renewable electricity only makes up for a small percentage of a nations actual power output. There are however, some countries who are able to …
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