cleantech, energy, wind Luke Timmerman wrote: British Columbia is bigger in land area than Washington, Oregon, and California combined, but has about one-tenth the total population. Yet pound-for-pound, our neighbor to the north appears to have its share of entrepreneurs thinking hard about energy a...

I have specifically left this post separate from the others, because it needs a full post of its own. We have been led to believe that coal fired power plants are what amounts to the main cause in what will amount to global catastrophe. The only real catastrophe that will result will be when ill inf...

Thinking big can be a blessing or a curse. In the case of green power generation, big ideas can be hard to translate into workable plans because we have so little experience with scaled-up projects.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Bravo to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for taking a stand against NIMBY Scarberians who are objecting to the idea of a wind farm two to four kilometers off the Scarborough Bluffs, a deteriorating sandy hill overlooking Lake Ontario. Energy Minister Smitherman scoffs, saying "If they've elevated th...

BBC: The Welsh Assembly Government has "little hope" of hitting its 2010 renewable energy target, claims the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman. Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates said there was a "stifling lack of progress" in wind farm development. The assembly government has pl...

Yesterday, 14 people were arrested as part of a non-violent protest of a plan to blow up and pull down a mountain in West Virginia in order to obtain the coal that lies within. The protesters’ rallying cry: “Windmills, not toxic spills”. Right next to the mountain is an artificial ...

So it turns out that wind powered electricity generation is not only a great supplier of green and renewable energy; the wind power industry generates more jobs per kwh than any other "green" or clean energy todate. Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase from the previous year, ...

Electrical Power Generation Chart for January 2009. Chart from U.S. Government Energy Information Administration. (EIA) PART ONE OF TWO PARTS These two posts will be along the lines  of ‘told you so’, only I’m getting in early. What I wanted to do was to actually create a ‘b...

This really is getting strange. The Tories look worryingly convinced of the wisdom of a plan to build a gigantic airport in the North Sea, split between two separate islands, because you never need to change the runway a plane is going to depart from...right? At the same time, the Government is cons...

Associated Press: While nearly everyone agrees wind power is key to the state's energy future, deciding where to put the massive, spinning turbines is a turning out to be a much thornier issue. As many as 3,000 turbines may be needed to reach Gov. Deval Patrick's goal of generating 2,000 megawatts o...