 Inexpensive residential wind power - peak oil
(North Denver News: Wed, 16 Apr) Don’t look now but it appears residential renewable energy systems and wind power technology are getting cheaper. California based Freetricity’s E2D Windmaster is a roof-mounted small residential wind turbine that comes with an affordable price tag. Though it sports a small propeller that could prove hazardous to hummingbirds and the like (though its size and roof mounting will reduce bird and ...
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 Renewable Energy facts - peak oil
(North Denver News: Tue, 15 Apr) Renewable Energy facts - 2007 year data • Renewable electricity generation capacity reached an estimated 240 gigawatts (GW) worldwide in 2007, an increase of 50 percent over 2004. • Renewables represent 5 percent of global power capacity and 3.4 percent of global power generation. Renewable energy generated as much electric power worldwide in 2006 as one-quarter of the world’s nuclear power ...
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 Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork
(New York Times: Thu, 17 Apr) Kitchen gardens are being discovered by a new generation of people who worry about what is in their food and how much fuel was consumed to grow it and to transport it.
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 UVM students describe research
(The Burlington Free Press: Thu, 17 Apr) About 140 University of Vermont graduates and undergraduates will present their findings today at UVM's first comprehensive Student Research Conference.
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 Drilling The Future
(Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News: Mon, 14 Apr) Energy: America's energy crunch is sadly self-inflicted. While others around the world engage in a mad dash to find more oil reserves, the U.S. seems to think $111-a-barrel oil won't be affected by more supply.
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 Brazil Finds World's Third Largest Oil Field
(The Auto Channel: Tue, 15 Apr) Writing for AP last night, Alan Clendenning has reported that Brazil has found a new deep-water oil field that might yield as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that according to one energy analyst, "would nearly triple Brazil's reserves and make the offshore bloc the world's third-largest known oil reserve."
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession
Joseph Romm: McCain reveals hypocrisy, cynicism with call for gas-tax holiday, energy budget freeze
