CAROL FLETCHER, The Record, November 29, 2009 Linda Rutta says she has a “tiger by the tail” with a renewable energy device she and her husband, Stanley, invented that can convert the power of ocean waves into electricity. Now the research and development team needs funding to analyze five days of data from a landmark [...]
Archive for November, 2009
New Jersey Couple Work to Harness Power of the Sea
Posted in Dept. of Energy, DOE, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, New Jersey, News, Ocean Energy, Ohmsett Renewable Energy Facility, Renewable Energy, Research, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Trials, tagged Able Technologies, Dept. of Energy, DOE, Electricity Generation, Funding, Linda Rutta, New Jersey, Ohmsett Renewable Energy Facility, Renewable Energy, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Energy Devices, Wave Energy Trials on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Schooling Fish Inspire Efficient Wind Farms
Posted in Biomimicry, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Research, Fish-friendly, News, Renewable Energy, Research, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Turbines, tagged Biomimicry, Energy Efficiency, Energy Flow, Energy Research, Renewable Energy, Schooling Fish, U.S., Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Turbines on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
JESSICA MARSHALL, Discovery.com News, November 30, 2009 The patterns that schooling fish form to save energy while swimming have inspired a new wind farm design that researchers say will increase the amount of power produced per acre by at least tenfold. “For the fish, they are trying to minimize the energy that they consume to [...]
California Unveils Draft Cap and Trade Rules
Posted in Algae-Powered Jets, California, Cap and Trade Policies, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon OffSets, Climate Change, CO2, News, U.S., Weatherization, Zero Emission Vehicle, tagged Air Resources Board, California, Cap and Trade Policies, Carbon Credits, Climate Change, CO2, Cutting Emissions, Green Building Code, Greenhouse Gas, Heating Fuel Suppliers, U.S., Zero Emission Vehicle on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters, November 25, 2009 California released on Tuesday draft rules for its landmark greenhouse gas cap and trade plan that will be the most ambitious United States effort to use the market to address global warming. State law requires California to cut its carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. [...]
Legal Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whale Underway
Posted in Blue Whales, California, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Defense Center, Legal Issues, Mendocino, Pacific Ocean, U.S., Whale Death, Whales, tagged Blue Whale Recovery Plan, Blue Whales, Brian Segee, California, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Defense Center, Legal Action, Mendocino, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Ocean, U.S., Whale Death on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Marine Science Today, November 23, 2009 The National Marine Fisheries Service, the agency charged with the stewardship of the U.S.’s living marine resources, may be sued for failure to implement the 1998 Blue whale Recovery Plan. Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment and the Center of Biological Diversity have joined the notice of intent to [...]
BOOK EXCERPT Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart: Tales from the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers by John Tidyman
Posted in Allison Krause, Cleveland, Kent State Massacre, Kent State Truth Tribunal, National Guardsmen, Ohio, Student Protest, The Aftermath of Loss, Truth Tribunal, U.S., tagged Allison Krause, Anti-war Protest, Cambodia, Cleveland Newspapers, Cleveland Press, Jim Dudas, John Tidyman, Kent State, Kent State Massacre, Matthew McManus, National Guardsman, Ohio, Ohio National Guard, Student Protest, Truth Tribunal, U.S., Vietnam War on November 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
November 25, 2009 Editor’s Note: To learn more about the Kent State Truth Tribunal 2010, please go to www.TruthTribunal.org and pre-register to participate as well as support us with your generous donation. Thanks! A reporter named Jim Dudas from the Cleveland Press contributed this story on a National Guardsman present at the Kent State Massacre: [...]
US Dept of Energy Investing in Small Business Renewable Energy Projects
Posted in ARRA, Clean Energy, Dept. of Energy, DOE, Economic Stimulus Plan, Energy Research, Funding, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, News, Obama, Ocean Energy, Ocean Thermal, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sea Turbine, Smart Grid, Solar Energy, Solar Thermal, Tidal Stream, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, tagged ARRA, Dept. of Energy, DOE, Funding, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Heat Exchange, Ocean Thermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Secretary Steven Chu, Smart Grid, Solar Energy, Tidal Energy, U.S., Wave Energy on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
RenewableEnergyFocus.com, November 25, 2009 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund $18 million to support small business innovation research, development and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies, including projects to advance wave and current energy technologies, ocean thermal energy conversion systems, and concentrating solar power (CSP) for distributed applications. The funding will come [...]
Climate Change ‘More Alarming Than Ever’ Claim UK Groups
Posted in Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 Emission, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas, News, Ocean Acidification, Socio-Economic Issues, UK, United Kingdom, United Nations Climate Conference, tagged Carbon Emissions, Carbon Reductions, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Drought, Environmental Issues, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ocean Acidity, U.K., United Kingdom on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
BBC News, November 24, 2009 Three UK groups studying climate change have issued a strong statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the world. The Royal Society, Met Office, and Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc) say the science of climate change is more alarming than ever. They say the [...]
Obama to Announce Target for Cutting Carbon Emissions at UN
Posted in CO2, CO2 Emission, Environmental Issues, News, Obama, President Obama, U.N., U.S., United Nations Climate Conference, tagged Carbon Reductions, CO2 Emissions, Environmental Issues, President Obama, U.N. Climate Summit, U.S. on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RICHARD BLACK with MendoCoastCurrent edits, BBC News, November 24, 2009 US President Barack Obama will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit, according to a White House official. The target is expected to be in line with figures contained in legislation before the Senate – a reduction of [...]
Acoustic Study to Help in Preserving Chilka Lake Dolphins
Posted in Environmental Issues, India, News, Research, tagged Acoustic Study, Ajit Pattnaik, Chilka Lake, Dolphins, Envioronmental Issues, Hydrophones, India, Irrawaddy Dolphin, Orissa, Research, Tokyo University on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SUPREET SHARMA, TopNews.India, November 22, 2009 Bhubaneswar, India – The underwater behaviour of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins of Chilka Lake in Orissa will now be monitored with special hydrophones developed to catch their high-frequency “click” sounds. The Chilka Development Authority, along with the Underwater Technology Research Center of Tokyo University, has developed the hydrophones that [...]
Mimicking Mother Nature
Posted in Biomimicry, Electricity Generation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Research, Montana, News, Renewable Energy, Research, U.S., tagged Biomimicry, Bionic Car, Energy Research, Janine Benyus, Passive Cooling, Renewable Energy, Research, Termites, U.S. on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
WENDEE HOLTCAMP, National Wildlife, December/January 2010 Frank Fish was browsing in a Boston sculpture shop a few years ago when he noticed a whale figurine. His first thought was, “This isn’t right. It’s got bumps on the leading edge of its flipper. It’s always a straight edge.” Fish, a West Chester University professor specializing in [...]
California CPUC Considering PG&E’s Space Solar Energy Project
Posted in California, CPUC, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, News, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Southern California, Space Solar Energy, U.S., tagged California, CPUC, Electricity Generation, PG&E, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Solaren, Space, Space Energy, Space Solar Energy, U.S. on November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
CASSANDRA SWEET, Dow Jones Newswires, November 20, 2009 California regulators have proposed approving a long-term contract between PG&E and Solaren, developers of a speculative technology that would beam 200 megawatts of solar power to earth from outer space. Under the 15-year contract, Solaren Corp., of Manhattan Beach, Calif., would ship 850 gigawatt-hours of solar power [...]
Nature Inspired, Award Winning ECO-Auger Flows Forth
Posted in Biomimicry, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Feasibility, Fish-friendly, Hydro Energy, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, MendoCoastCurrent, Nearshore Wave Energy, News, Ocean Energy, Renewable Energy, Research, Tidal Energy, U.S., Wave Energy, Wave Farm, tagged Alaska, Bi-directional, Biomimicry, ConocoPhillips, Double Helix, ECO-Auger, Electricity Generation, Fish-friendly, Hydraulic Pump, Hydrokinetic Energy, Kenai River, Penn State University, Renewable Energy, Tidal Energy, U.S., W.S. Anderson, Wave Energy on November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MendoCoastCurrent, November 16, 2009 For centuries humanity has gazed at the sea, rivers and rambling brooks in awe of water currents and the energy potential they hold. With increasingly critical demand for safe renewable energy solutions, our ability to capture water power has been an abstruse, distant choice for mitigating our dependence on fossil fuels. [...]
Bob Lyon Installs Cool Residential Small Wind Turbine
Posted in AWAE, Electricity Generation, Florida, Net Metering, News, Renewable Energy, Small Wind, Small Wind Turbine, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wind Energy, tagged AWAE, Electricity Generation, Florida, Net Metering, Renewable Energy, Small Wind, Small Wind Turbine, U.S., US Energy Policy, Wind Energy on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s Note: They’ve got it going on! LISA BULE, St. Petersberg Times, November 7, 2009 This is Bob Lyon’s version of a midlife crisis sports car. “This is the craziest thing I’ve done in my life,” the 47-year-old commercial painter joked Friday after a crane lowered a 19-foot, 1-ton wind turbine onto a pole behind [...]
After Four Decades, Kent State National Guardsman Speaks
Posted in Allison Krause, Anti-war Protest, Four Days in May, Kent State Massacre, Kent State Truth Tribunal, National Guardsmen, Ohio, Student Protest, The Aftermath of Loss, Truth Tribunal, U.S., Vietnam War, tagged Alan Canfora, Allison Krause, Four Days in May, Kent State, Kent State Massacre, Kent State Shootings, Kent State Truth Tribunal, Laura Davis, May 4th Kent State, National Guard, National Guardsman, Ohio, Ron Snyder, Tim Moore, Truth Commission, Truth Tribunal, U.S. on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s Note: The Kent State Truth Tribunal invites your participation, support and tax-deductible, charitable donations. If the Truth at 1970 Kent State matters to you, please join us here. LYDIA COUTRE, KentNewsNet, November 3, 2009 Last night, Ron Snyder became the first Kent State National Guardsman to speak in a public forum at Kent State [...]
Stop Killing the World’s Oceans
Posted in Climate Change, News, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Dumping, Ocean Warning, Over Fishing, Wave Energy, Wind Energy, tagged Climate Change, Ocean, Ocean Acidity, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Dumping, Ocean Warning, Oceana, Over Fishing, Sam Waterson, Wave Energy, Wind Energy on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SAM WATERSON, Special to CNN, November 2, 2009 CNN Editor’s Note: Sam Waterston is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who is best known for his long-running role as prosecutor Jack McCoy on “Law & Order.” He is a member of the board of directors of Oceana, a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect [...]
