In The Solar Energy World, This Process Delivers More Energy Per Acre And It’s Priced Comparable To Coal Derived Energy.

A small solar company Amonix, based out of Seal Beach, California, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), combined talents to developed a solar power concentrator that generates electricity at prices competitive with natural gas. The Amonix 7700 Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Solar Power Generator, is the size of an IMAX screen but costs much less than comparable generators, partly because of the efficiency of its small solar cells. It delivers more “energy per acre” than anything yet available in the solar energy world.

NREL’s partnerships with industry, such as this one with Amonix, are key to reaching aggressive White House goals including lowering solar energy’s installed cost to $1 a watt. That would be a great step towards reducing our dependence on foreign oil and releasing Big Oil’s strangle hold on the whole wide world. (more…)

Hey BP, While You And Your Big Oil Buddies Use The Freedom Uprisings In The Middle East To Hijack Us At The Pumps -

A plethora of solutions have been laid before you. From Costner’s machine to oil-eating microbes and now MIT has added another solution called Seaswarm.

But BP, there is no need to take a year ‘investigating’ this device which has been done with all the others, here’s a video about Seaswarm to save you all that time

Now is the time to take some proactive actions and quit treating Earth like you have plenty others, You DO NOT – it’s the only one we all have.

Seaswarm … as the green future unfolds.

In The Beautiful Hudson Valley, A Community Called Green Acres Is In The Mist Of Building The Future.

Green Acres

The community is located in New Paltz, New York, a scenic and charming college town situated 85 miles north of New York City.

HVCE (Hudson Valley Clean Energy) , Bolder Architecture and Greenhill Contracting partnered to develop Green Acres as the first zero energy (ZEH) community in the United States and possibly the world. Finally, a trio of companies not just talking the talk, but actually walking the walk.

With several homes already completed and occupied, Green Acres is setting the standard for home building in the 21st Century. Through the use of combined state of the art technology, each home has the capacity to generate enough renewable energy to offset its annual energy needs.

The first resident of Green Acres tracked the daily performance of his 3,000 sq.ft. home. By the end of the first full year of occupancy, the home over-produced 1,733 kWh of electricity. Outstanding!

Some of the technology used to achieve net zero energy use :

• Solar (photovoltaic) Panels
• Geothermal Heating and Cooling
• Super Insulation & High-Efficiency Windows
• Heat Recovery Ventilation
• ICF (insulated concrete forms) – from foundation to roof

All homes are LEEDs certified for homes and contain energy star appliances.

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Green Acres is the place to be – eco-living is the life for me – (If you’re a Boomer, sorry for that tune rolling around in your head right now)…as the green future unfolds.

The Gang Down Under Is At It Again – Giving Us Another Exciting Path Towards Our Green Future

SkyLifter Pty Ltd was founded in 2008 and is based in Perth, Western Australia, well actually Joondalup, 15.5 miles (25km) north of Perth. The company already has active field offices in Europe and Asia and research and development, manufacturing and testing taking place around the world. Probably because it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the potential of this exciting new company developing their futuristic innovative vertical pick-up and delivery aircraft capable of carrying 150 tons, a genuine heavy airlift solution that will take over where helicopters leave off in terms of payload and range capability. With helicopter technology limited to payloads of up to 20 tons, a SkyLifter’s 150 ton vertical pick-up and delivery capabilities of payloads of any shape, any location, and any distance, will present a paradigm shift for the heavy airlift industry. (more…)

RIP Picher, Oklahoma 1918 – 2011

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Located in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, the town of Picher was once home to the world’s richest lead and zinc mining field. After decades of mining, towering piles of mine waste covered 25,000 acres, devastating Quapaw tribal lands and local economies. Acid mine water burned nearby Tar Creek and stained it red. An alarmingly high percentage of local children were found to have toxic levels of lead in their blood, along with high rates of cancer and other diseases among the populace. (more…)