Affordable Green Housing For Flood-prone Regions

Way down yonder in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, a few blocks east of the Industrial Canal that links the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico, something wonderful happened yesterday. Where multiple breaches along the levees of the Industrial Canal and the Intracoastal Waterway resulted in devastating flooding and damage in the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a public unveiling, ribbon cutting ceremony and celebration of another completed house in New Orleans. But Sugar, this ain’t no ordinary house ………… (more…)

Houston – We Have A Future !

Houston, Texas based Hydro Green Energy, in partnership with the city of Hastings, Minnesota, installed in late 2008, the United States’ first-ever commercial, federally-licensed hydrokinetic power station to generate clean, emissions-free hydrokinetic power from the Mississippi River. Power operations began in early 2009, with the second of which is being installed this spring.

Hydrokinetic energy generates power by using underwater turbines to harness the energy from the natural velocity of flowing water, be it river, tidal or ocean current. Traditional hydropower, in contrast, relies upon dams, diversionary methods, or other manmade impounding structures behind which potential energy in the water is stored. (more…)