Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is probably one of, if not the, most important parts of being able to live off grid. Providing your own power is most easily achieved through renewable sources …

Industrial Hemp has a variety of uses. It can be used to make hempcrete, insulation and other building materials, it can be turned into biofuels, and it can be used …

The goal of a vertical access wind turbine is to generate enough power in a smaller overall size and with less noise and reduced threat to any wildlife, such as …

With federal and state governments slow to impose mandates to reduce use of fossil fuels (often due to heavy lobbying, and the money that goes with it, from the fossil …

How much land would it take to power the USA with solar energy? About this much. 2.8 acres per 1GWh. Solar would have to produce about 4 million GWh of electricity annually …

A Dutch company, The Archimedes, has looked to the past in order to improve the future of wind turbines. Their design, based on the math of Archimedes, is a smaller, …

Solar rooftops and Tesla Powerwalls will power the new Tesla Town in Melbourne, Australia. Many of us expected some pretty big things from Solar City and from the development of …

Solar power myths debunked. Most of these solar energy myths are started by people in the fossil fuel industry with an agenda to undermine the renewable energy market and continue …

Last week Tesla purchased SolarCity for $2.6 billion, today Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO announced that they will be manufacturing and installing Solar Roofs! This is huge news, especially coming after …

MIT scientists have increased power output with 3D solar panels towers from double, up to 20 times the energy as traditional solar panels. Solar is one of the more accessible forms …