Green Independence

SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGH!

2008-05-01T09:37:00.001-07:00

Free Energy - A Reality Not a Conspiracy

2008-05-01T09:23:00.001-07:00

The Solar Revolution and the End of Big Energy

2008-04-30T08:08:00.001-07:00

Technological improvements strengthen the Case for Solar. This year alone, the cost of manufacturing solar electric panels could decline two-fold, and oil will have to sell for under $100 a barrel to remain competitive.

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Canning and Preserving Fruits and Vegetables :

2008-04-26T10:47:00.001-07:00

Survivalist Segiment
Simple Canning Recipes

How to Prepare Peaches for Canning

60 MPG Escort Wagon

2008-04-10T09:13:00.001-07:00

FREE ENERGY Home Generator -Zero Point Energy - Off the Grid

2008-04-10T09:03:00.001-07:00

Getting seeds ready for planting

2008-04-06T10:43:00.001-07:00

PlayPump Water Systems

2008-04-06T10:31:00.001-07:00

Shared Propulsion Car

2008-04-06T10:26:00.001-07:00

Gotta give them an "A" for effort anyway! LOL!

22 Long Rifle Test - Part 1

2008-04-05T17:45:00.001-07:00

The air car is poised for mass production.

2008-03-17T18:18:00.001-07:00

A car that runs on air, that gets about 160 miles per gallon.

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Easy Solar Power

2008-03-08T13:10:00.000-08:00

Gallery: Eco-Friendly Gadgets for Your Home and Your 'Hood

2008-03-03T11:16:00.001-08:00

Saving power used to mean low-tech measures like turning down your thermostat and wearing a sweater. Now you can cut your electric bills in high-tech ways, like installing an electricity-generating turbine in your toilet or lighting your home with LEDs instead of inefficient incandescent bulbs.

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Google to Outspend US Government on Environment

2008-03-03T11:02:00.001-08:00

A report is circulating regarding Google, that they are pledging themselves to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into big Alternative-Energy projects. They plan to focus on projects that have traditionally had a hard time getting financing.

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Aerotecture: Making Power Where You Need It

2008-03-03T10:17:00.000-08:00

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Urban Agriculturalist: ecoCity Farming

2008-03-02T13:59:00.001-08:00

Struck by the high carbon cost of sending food to dense urban areas and communities in extreme climates, Andrew Bodlovich and Hogan Gleeson devised a highly efficient, waste-free aquaponic growing system in which vegetable crops and freshwater fish benefit from a symbiotic relationship.

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GROW combines solar panels and leaves

2008-03-02T13:58:00.001-08:00

Sustainable design group SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) has a new project called GROW that is capable of harnessing both solar and wind power.

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Ten Reasons to Eat Local Food

2008-03-02T13:57:00.001-08:00

Fresher, healthier, better for the environment and local economy...

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World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Coming to Arizona

2008-03-02T13:55:00.001-08:00

The lucky sunny state of Arizona is about to become home to the world’s largest Solar Plant! Thanks to a just-announced contract between Abengoa Solar and Arizona Public Service Company (APS), the enormous solar plant called Solana will power up to 70,000 homes, and will be the first example in the country of a major utility...

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Store Your Electricity for When the Sun "Don't Shine"

2008-03-02T13:54:00.001-08:00

It calls to mind the old jokes about solar-powered flashlights (and the related screened door for your submarine), but it's surprising to discover that many small-scale solar power systems actually don't have batteries.

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Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough

2008-02-28T09:53:00.000-08:00

Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.

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Air-Powered Cars to Hit US by 2010

2008-02-25T07:40:00.001-08:00

The Air Car is a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, and ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast. Company officials want to make a $17,800, 75-hp six-seater capable of 1000 miles at up to 96 mph with each tiny fill-up.

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Econo Ed.101: Economic Scholar v2

2008-02-24T08:29:00.001-08:00

Ann Arbor Lighting Up With 100% LEDs!

2008-02-20T13:31:00.001-08:00

Last year Ann Arbor joined forces with LED manufacturer Cree, Inc, on an ever-expanding citywide LED initiative to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With a recent retrofit contract signed with Lumecon, Ann Arbor is on its way to being the first U.S. city to light up its downtown with 100% LED technology!

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80% Efficient Solar Panel?! Works at Night?!

2008-02-20T13:30:00.001-08:00

The most expensive, carefully designed, and complicated solar panels in the world operate at about 40% efficiency. That means that, for every bit of sunlight that hits the panel, only 40% of it is turned into electricity.

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America's 50 Greenest Cities

2008-02-20T13:29:00.001-08:00

Want to see a model for successful and rapid environmental action? Don't look to the federal government—check out your own town. Here, our list of the 50 communities that are leading the way. Does yours make the cut?

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Blogger gets 72 mpg from stock Euro Honda Civic diesel

2008-02-20T13:16:00.001-08:00

What we're going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we're not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,

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Willie Nelson's Biodiesel

2008-02-12T18:52:00.000-08:00

All Americans understand the importance of reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Long or short haul carriers understand that every gallon we grow from our nation's crops reduces what we buy from foreign soil.

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Freecycle for Free and Eco-friendly Stuff

2008-02-04T14:21:00.000-08:00

What is Freecycling? It's giving and recycling all at the same time.
Go to Freecycle.org to learn more. Best of all it's FREE!

Solar-Powered Homes Outselling Weak Market

2008-02-04T11:57:00.000-08:00

Builders are seeing that they'll get more buyers coming to their developments when they have solar.
They sell like hot cakes," says Bernadette del Chiaro, an energy specialist at the advocacy group Environment California.

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Texas grows wind-energy capacity, maintains U.S. lead

2008-02-04T11:23:00.000-08:00

Texas expanded its wind-energy capacity by 57 percent in 2007.

What's more, Texas has 1,238.28 megawatts under construction, tops among other states. With no permitting required and plentiful open spaces, the state is considered a prime location for wind-farm developments.

U.S. wind farms will generate just over 1 percent of the nation's electricity supply this year, and the estimated 48 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy is enough to power the equivalent of more than 4.5 million homes, according to the trade group
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The State of Hemp in America

2008-02-04T08:16:00.000-08:00

With the new Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer, who signed North Dakota's hemp law in 1999 as Governor, being confirmed last week, we have a window of opportunity...
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Green Energy can be achieved

2008-01-31T11:48:00.001-08:00

We can become energy independent.

Namibia Green Energy

2008-01-31T11:40:00.001-08:00

Delivering Massive Solar Power Gains

2008-01-22T19:42:00.001-08:00

Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems plans to begin construction in 2009 on two $1 billion solar power farms on federal land in California's Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles and in the Imperial Valley east of San Diego, reports USA Today.

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Iowa E85 sales up 48 percent

2008-01-22T19:36:00.001-08:00

In Iowa, the state’s Renewable Fuels Association said that E85 sales increased 48 percent in the 3rd quarter of 2007, compared to the corresponding quarter in 2006. Total sales for the quarter were 941,547 gallons from 68 E85 stations.

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Solar Hydrogen Generator May Make Clean Hydrogen Fuel Cells

2008-01-22T19:32:00.001-08:00

The solar Hydrogen generator is designed to rest on a 50 x 50 ft space on a sunny roof and will create enough hydrogen to meet the daily driving needs of a family of four.

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Who needs oil when you got a Tesla Roadster

2008-01-22T12:10:00.000-08:00

The Tesla Roadster is a fully electric sports car, and is the first car to be produced by electric car firm Tesla Motors. The car will be able to travel 221 miles (356 km) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery,[2]The Roadster's efficiency is reported as 133 Wh/km (4.7 mi/kWh)[3], equivalent to 135 mpg–U.S.

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2007: record year for US wind industry

2008-01-21T14:22:00.000-08:00

Shattering all its previous records, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW) in 2007, expanding the nation's total wind power generating capacity by 45% in a single calendar year.
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Why LED GrowLights Are Better

2008-01-21T13:24:00.000-08:00

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Hemp: Many possibilities as an alternative crop

2008-01-20T09:51:00.000-08:00

Most people know that industrial hemp has been a source of rope, cloth and paper since ancient times, but few recognize its incredible potential today.
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Brighter LED Lights Could Replace Household Light Bulbs Within 3 Years

2008-01-20T09:42:00.000-08:00

ScienceDaily (2008-01-10) -- Researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), already used in electrical equipment such as computers and mobile phones, are several times more energy efficient than standard light-bulbs. However, because of their structure and material, much of the light in standard LEDs becomes trapped, reducing the brightness of the light and making them unsuitable as the main lighting source in the home.

Motor Mouth: Detroit show rocks to a green beat

2008-01-19T20:35:00.001-08:00

Even on the hydrogen front, there is diversity of design. While most hydrogenpowered prototypes use fuel cells, BMW's Hydrogen7 pumps the lighter-than-air gas into a good old V12 piston engine.

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Cheap, Superefficient Solar

2008-01-19T20:06:00.001-08:00

Solar-power modules that concentrate the power of the sun are becoming more viable.

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Hemp clothing boutique opens soon

2008-01-19T13:37:00.000-08:00

Tim Shea didn’t move to Bellingham to start a business, but sometimes an idea grabs a person and won’t let go.

Shea is in the process of opening The Hempest, a clothing store with products made primarily of hemp, at 1307 Cornwall Ave.

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Biofuel: Major Net Energy Gain From Switchgrass-based Ethanol

2008-01-19T13:27:00.000-08:00

ScienceDaily (2008-01-14) -- Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study. Results from the five-year study involving fields on farms in three states highlight the prairie grass' potential as a biomass fuel source that yields significantly more energy than is consumed in production and conversion into cellulosic ethanol, said Ken Vogel, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service geneticist in UNL's agronomy and horticulture department.

Goldwater Jr. helps launch Global Green Energy Consortium

2008-01-19T11:27:00.001-08:00

Former U.S. Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr. and former U.S. Ambassador Osman Siddique have announced the launch of the Global Green Energy Consortium, a nonprofit organization to promote green energy and sustainability.

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