Here in Taos, NM, there is a small company called Taos Wind Power that has been trying to get their wind farm up and running on some local land. Since they started planning for it, they have been met with a lot of resistance from some locals near the land, who are concerned about [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes from my friend Courtney over at the NRDC, and it is about gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3 and how much energy they waste. Did you know that even when idle, gaming consoles cost consumers more than $1 billion worth of wasted energy [...]
A successful test has been carried out of a new prototype solar dish that concentrates solar rays by 1,000 times, creating what inventor Doug Wood has called “the most efficient solar collector in existence.”
photo credit: Lui G
The device is a 12-foot-wide dish made from thin, mirrored aluminum tubing and strips of mirrored glass. Water [...]
Let’s be clear about this – we cannot drill our way out of our energy situation. There is no way we can actually drill enough holes in the earth to meet all of our current and future energy needs, (we only have 3-5% of all the oil in the world under our soil) so why is that pretty much the only thing this administration is concentrating on? Because the oil companies own many of our government officials. photo by David Plotzki
