Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Zero carbon home.

Zero carbon home, a very interesting concept..

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Town running on wind power..

Generating 16M KW from wind mills for a town in Missouri that requires 14M KW per annum!. Interesting..

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/rock-port-missouri-celebrates-being-100-wind-powered/

Friday, April 4, 2008

Hydrogen powered aircraft


Boeing's H2 based flight..

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q2/080403a_nr.html

When will it be a reality is anybody's guess!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Solar Thermal collectors

I read this in Mr. Gunnar Hillert's blog about thermal collectors in Germany. If you have chance, please visit Bangalore and go atop a tall residential building, you will so many roof tops having this!.

http://hillert.blogspot.com/2008/01/renewable-energy-falling-behind.html

There are some namesake subsidies provided by government controlled electrical distribution companies, but I guess people have largely realized that electricity coming in through wire can be put to other uses than just heat water..

Thursday, March 6, 2008

H2 and You!

Interesting site..
"The National Hydrogen Association's Hydrogen Education Foundation has launched a nationwide educational campaign to increase understanding about hydrogen. The initiative includes targeted public relations and the new, informative website: www.H2andYou.org."

Monday, March 3, 2008

Solar leaves

Artistic designs to increase interest in solar panel's and energy.
This one is in form of leaves - will use solar panel instead of chlorophyll to generate energy!.
This is from a startup http://www.s-m-i-t.com/





More here
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/03/01/smits-grow2-project-new-solar-and-wind-solutions/

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Largest Solar power plant in Arizona..

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/25/world%e2%80%99s-largest-solar-power-plant-coming-to-arizona-in-2011/
"the enormous solar plant called Solana will power up to 70,000 homes, and will be the first example in the country of a major utility getting the majority of its energy from solar. The 1900 acre plant will be completed by 2011 – IF AND ONLY IF Congress renews the clean energy tax credit that’s set to expire at the end of 2008."