Iowa on the verge of adding 1,000 new wind turbines
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 Offers Cheaper Alternative For Battery Power
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 IceWind Turbine Is A New Take On Vertical Access Wind Turbines
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 …
Google To Use 100% Renewable Energy By End Of 2017!
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?
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 …
NEW Rooftop Wind Turbine: Quieter, Lighter, Smaller & More Efficient
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, …
NEW Solar Powered “Tesla Town” Being Built in Australia
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 …
10 Solar Power Myths Debunked
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 …
Tesla Energy & Solar City CEO Elon Musk Announces Solar Rooftops
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 …
3D Solar Panel Towers Increase Energy Output up to 20 Times
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 …