Posts Tagged ‘Renewable Energy’

• Obama’s Energy Plan for America: 10% Renewables by 2012, One Million Plug-ins by 2015 and Efficiency Now

  The Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has released his “New Energy for America” plan. If elected some of the things in his plan are 10% renewables by 2012, one million plug-ins by 2015 and energy efficiency now. John McCain’s energy …

• Offshore drilling is not the answer to high gas prices

  There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation …

• USA is Now the World’s Largest Generator of Wind Energy

  The statistics are in for the first half of 2008 and they show that USA, for the first time, generated more wind energy than Germany. This “milestone” wasn’t expected to be reached until late 2009. Germany still has more wind …

• Al Gore Wants USA to Abandon Fossil Fuels by 2018

  DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 30JAN05 – Al Gore at the Annual Meeting 2005 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2005. Photo by Severin Nowacki. Today Al Gore issued a “major challenge” for USA where he said that Americans must …

• The demolition of a record-holder

  Yesterday the 15 year old Swedish wind power station Matilda was demolished. Matilda wasn’t an ordinary wind turbine. She was a record-holder. Since she was constructed 15 years ago on Gotland she has supplied 15000 homes with electricity. Her wind …

• Sweden’s largest wind farm gets its first approval

  Sweden has approved Universal Wind Offshore’s plans to construct Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will be built in the Kattegatt strait about 30 kilometres off Sweden’s southwestern coast and cover an area of about 60 square kilometres. …

• Windmill Destroyed by Wind

  The video below shows a windmill in Hornslet, near Århus in Denmark, being ripped apart by… wind. Oh the irony. But it does show the power of renewable energy, and in this case wind power.

• Top 10 most wind plants built in Europe 2007

  It’s a brand new year for Europe, and for the European Union member states is has started with “tough” greenhouse gas emission targets being set. The new targets require that a certain amount of renewable energy will be installed in …

• Green Quote of the Week: Andris Piebalgs

  The European Commissioner for energy policy, Andris Piebalgs, said yesterday during the press conference where the EU unveiled its plan of action against climate change: In a time of growing oil prices and climate change concerns, renewable energy sources is …

• Wind power anywhere with MARS

  If I say Mars, what do you think of then? No, the planet Mars is the wrong answer. The correct answer is Magenn’s Power Turbine MARS. MARS is a new simple solution to produce wind energy, anywhere. According to Magenn …