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Energy Education for a New Era

As concerns for global warming rise, so does the need for educated personnel to be able to meet the requirements for the new consciousness. The need for qualified workers in this new field of commerce is essential if it is to succeed.
At present, there are more than seventy ethanol plants that are under construction. […]

Thoughts on the Book “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years”

People have different opinions on what is causing global warming. In the past, the focus was on whether global warming was really happening or not. Now that the world leaders and the masses have been presented with irrefutable evidence that global warming is definitely happening, it seems there are still those who refuse to take […]

The Midwestern States Take Action in the Fight against Global Warming

Recently, six governors of their prospective Midwestern states have signed an accord that will establish their states as true leaders in the battle to slow if not halt global warming. What was signed into law is called the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord. The accord was signed by the state legislators at the gathering […]

OLPC is finally on sale for all!!

Come November 12th and the One Laptop Per Child(OLPC) program that aims at having one laptop in every child’s hand will kick off its commercial operations. The same was officially announced and the release day was specified as next week on Monday will see an end to the long drawn speculations that at one stage […]

Disadvantages of alternative energy

Alternative sources of energy, or renewable energy as they are better known as, seem to be an excellent choice for people building new home or who want to purchase a new automobile. However there are few disadvantages of alternative sources of energy as well that need to be considered realistically before investing in them.Alternative energy […]

Gore’s Nobel win should further the cause of alternative energy

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nobel Peace Prize win by Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel last week is seen as a major step forward to alternative energy technologies and research that are already into their best phase ever, experts said.
“It’s a quiet revolution,” said Sarah Emerson, the managing director of Boston-Based Energy Security […]

Vertical farming concept

It might not be a revolutionary new idea that the Scientists of Columbia University are proposing, however it is definitely a new concept that they are trying to bring into existence. Shortage of farm lands is not news to anyone from this world. In countries like Japan farmlands are more of a luxury property […]

House Passes 15% Renewable Energy by 2020

In August this year, the United States House of Representatives had passed a bill unanimously that required all the operational utility companies registered in the United States to produce at least 15 percentage of the total amount of their electricity from renewable resources such as the wind or the sun by the year 2020.
The bill […]

Fission energy

What is Fission energy?”Fission is a nuclear process in which a heavy nucleus splits into two smaller nuclei.” This is the definition given for the energy generation process called fission energy. Fission energy is produced when the electrostatic forces inside the atom are overcome. An atom of larger size has more electrostatic repulsion between the […]

Factors to keep in mind while Building a Windmill

The most important things to keep in mind while building a windmill are
A) Location:-
The energy of the wind is usually on the higher side and is more useful to generation of energy on the seashores or at the sides of large lakes or water bodies thus making these places ideal for setting up of a […]