Turning Landfill Waste into Sustainable Renewable Clean Energy The Department of Defense announced today it would be partnering with cleantech company FlexEnergy to build a state of the art landfill gas power plant at its Fort Benning, Georgia base. The new plant will utilize FlexEnergy’s brand new Powerstation™ technology to [...]

Everyone wants to make their home more energy efficient, but most have no idea where to start. That’s where home energy audits come in handy. By completing a DIY audit or hiring a professional home energy auditor, you can begin cutting your energy dependence and lowering utility bills at the [...]

Nikola Tesla is known by many as the father of commercial electricity, without his breakthrough in the field of electromagnetism and patents as well as his theoretical work served as the basis for modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC [...]

Even if the future is a quieter place, with more restricted movement and lower standards of material living, there will still be a requirement for resources and synthetic materials, along with the whole host of chemicals used in modern industry. While there will be a much-reduced demand for fertilizers and [...]

With the latest oil spill receiving more air time than the global War on Terror and China’s coastline now suffering like the Gulf of Mexico it begs the question: is there a safer way to manage the oil industry in order to avoid similar catastrophes from happening again in the [...]

Nokia recently announced a phone charger that gives energy to your phone while you bicycle. You pop your phone in, pedal along, and the energy created can recharge your phone (somewhat). This is a great idea, and as soon as I read about it, I started thinking about the other [...]

Currently, as we wander across the early part of the 21st century, most power production is centralized in massive power plants capable of producing hundreds, even thousands, of megawatts of power. Distribution systems then carry that power to where it is needed. These massive baseload systems are essential to providing [...]

For much of the world, every time a person flicks on a light switch or turns on the blender, chances are that their power supply is coming, at least in part, from coal. Coal has been used as a fuel since the days of the Han Dynasty in China, around [...]

There are currently three, maybe four, methods of power generation that meet the criteria for base load power production. These are fossil fuels, typically coal, hydropower, geothermal, and nuclear. Fossil fuels have a host of problems and concerns, from the production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, acid rain, toxic [...]

Drive on a rural road in southern Ontario, and sooner or later you will come across a cattle farm. There’s a pretty good chance that you will smell it before you see it, the manure from hundreds of cows makes a striking odour. Cows and cattle farms are not faring [...]