There are many new ways to create clean alternative energy. Find out about these new power sources that could one day provide electricity for your home.
China has a poo problem and fortunately, there’s an environmentally friendly solution in sight. The country, which loves to consume pig meat, generates close to 1.5 million tons of pig feces each year. Sound crazy? Consider this: China has 700 million pigs that produce two-thirds of their annual meat. Currently of the 1.5 million tons [...]
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Renewable energy is inexhaustible, clean and becoming increasingly cost effective. After an initial infrastructure investment, its main cost is maintenance. For decades, interest in renewables developed slowly due to low oil prices. Now, that development is picking up speed. As new power sources come onto the grid, the price of technology is dropping. Biomass [...]
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Now that Apple’s massive North Carolina datacenter is online, and it’s powering the business’ iCloud service, many are curious about what is going to be done with the adjacent areas of land that have been cleared for some type of construction. Some suspected it was for another datacenter, but according to aerial photographs taken by [...]
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Mining isn’t just digging minerals from the ground. Mining has expanded to designing ways to use that resource. Coal mining has taken the lead in finding ways to use this natural resource to make energy generation safer, cheaper and cleaner. There are enough coal deposits in America to keep the lights on for hundreds of [...]
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We have known about nuclear fusion since the 1920’s when we discovered that the very same process is what makes the sun shine. Scientists used these very principles when they developed the first atomic bomb during World War II. The potential in harnessing nuclear energy, and especially fusion, is almost unimaginable. This is what has [...]
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Alternative energy is the key to our future if the human race is to continue existing on the planet. It is imperative for companies to look for new ways to power vehicles, homes and places of business if the world is to be sustainable in the long run. Scientific data providing a warming planet has [...]
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The European Wind Energy Association shows impressive numbers when it comes to developing renewable energy in 2011: As much as 71.3% of new power installations during 2011 were renewable. The total renewable output developed this year yields 32.043 MW; in other words, more renewable capacity was installed in 2011 than any other year (an [...]
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In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, many countries put their plans for new nuclear power facilities on hold, and some governments began considering scaling down their existing nuclear programmes. Was this a knee-jerk reaction, or a sensible one? Is nuclear power the way forward, or is it too risky to consider as a solution [...]
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Alvin Smith, the inventor of Searaser, claims that it is able to generate electricity cheaper than any other conventional method out there, including coal and nuclear. It seems that new patents for technologies, that supposedly will revolutionize the way we harness energy, are in the news every single week. In this article, I’m going to [...]
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1. Solar Energy Despite the Solandra debacle, solar energy will continue to be pursued as a viable source of renewable energy. The secret is, of course, to find cheaper and more reliable ways to harness the incredible energy of the sun. The reasons why a well funded, seemingly well organized firm such as Solandra failed [...]
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