JEANNE ROBERTS, Celsias via CleanTechies, March 29, 2010 There is a cascade failure going on in the world’s oceans that promises nothing but trouble in the future, and the problem stems in part from agricultural practices developed over the last half-decade aimed at growing more food on the same amount of land to feed rising [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Lower Ocean Oxygen Levels Predict Cascading Failure
Posted in Agricultural Practices, Atlantic Ocean, Cascade Failure, Climate Change, Coastal Conservancy, Coastal Protection, Environmental Issues, Eutrophication, Factory Farming, Fertilizer Megadose, Fish Farming, Great Lakes, Jellyfish, Negative Feedback Loop, News, Ocean Dumping, Ocean Ecology, Red Tides, Research, U.S., tagged Agriculltural Practices, Algae Blooms, Cascade Failure, Climate Change, Dead Zones, Dungeness Crab, Eutrophication, Factory Farming, Fertilizer Megadose, Jellyfish, Negative Feedback Loop, Ocean, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Research, Red Tides on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Four Days in May, Kent State Truth Tribunal
Posted in Allison Krause, Anti-war Protest, Kent State Massacre, Kent State Truth Tribunal, News, Ohio, Student Protest, Truth Tribunal, U.S., tagged Allison Krause, Kent State Massacre, Laurel Krause, Truth Tribunal on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
North Coast Energy Independence Program in Mendocino
Posted in AB 811, California Energy Commission, Economic Stimulus Plan, Energy Efficiency, Funding, Green Jobs, Mendocino, Northern California, Renewable Energy, Rooftop Solar, Small Solar, Small Wind, Solar Energy, U.S., Water Efficiency, Wind Energy, tagged AB 811, Board of Supervisors, California Energy Commission, Energy Efficiency, Mendocino County, NCEIP, NCIRWMG, North Coast, Northern California, Renewable Energy, Small Solar, Small Wind, U.S., Water Efficiency on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ukiah Daily, March 9, 2010 Mendocino County, along with the counties of Sonoma, Lake, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity and Siskiyou will be receiving a $4.4 million grant from the California Energy Commission to initiate the proposed North Coast Energy Independence Program. The NCEIP is patterned after and represents an expansion of the Sonoma County Energy [...]
Thermopower Waves Discovery at MIT
Posted in Advanced Battery Technology, Batteries, Capacitors, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Energy Storage, Massachusettts, MIT, Nanotubes, News, Renewable Energy, Research, Thermopower Wave, Thermopower Waves, U.S., tagged Capacitors, Electricity Generation, Energy Storage, Massachusetts, MIT, Nanotubes, Prof Michael Strano, Renewable Energy, Thermopower Waves, U.S., Wonjoon Choi on March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
UPI.com, March 9, 2010 A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists say they’ve discovered a phenomenon that might lead to a new way of producing electricity. The researchers, led by Associate Professor Michael Strano, said their discovery of the phenomenon that causes waves of energy to shoot through carbon nanotubes — described as thermopower [...]
Harnessing Ocean Waves for Power
Posted in Dept. of Energy, DOE, Electricity Generation, Energy Research, Environmental Issues, Hawaii, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, Nearshore Wave Energy, Ocean Energy, Offshore Renewable Energy, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Scotland, U.S., United Kingdom, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, Wave Farm, tagged Aquamarine Power, DOE, Electricity Generation, Environmental Issues, Hawaii, OPT, Oregon, Orkney, Oyster, PowerBuoy, Reedsport, Renewable Energy, Scotland, U.K., U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, Wave Energy, Wave Farm on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
GAYATHRI VAIDYANATHAN, New York Times, March 2, 2010 Harnessing the ocean waves for emission-free power seems like a tidy concept, but the ocean is anything but tidy. Waves crash from multiple directions on a seemingly random basis, and converting the kinetic energy into electricity is a frontier of alternative energy research that requires grappling with [...]
Utilities Push Back on FERC’s Transmission Authority
Posted in Cross-State Transmission, FERC, Mega-grid, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Transmission Line, U.S., US Energy Policy, tagged American Clean Leadership Act, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff, Cross-State Transmission, FERC, Green Power Express, ITC, Mega-grid Systems, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Senate Bill 1462, Smart Grid, Transmission Lines, Tres Amigas, U.S. on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
JEFF ST. JOHN, Earth2Tech, March 1, 2010 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff wants his agency to have a lot more authority over planning cross-state transmission lines, as well as getting states and utilities to share the costs of building them. But on Monday, the utility industry pushed back. The Coalition for Fair Transmission [...]
