Energy Efficiency – Where Does Your State Rank?

Even as Congress failed to take major action on climate and energy legislation in 2010, states across the United States achieved major new strides in energy efficiency , according to the 2010 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the nonprofit and independent American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

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Cheapest Green Car – Honda Fit Hybrid

In tune with its focus on continuing with combining hybrid attempts and smaller size, Honda is offering another hybrid – the smallest and cheapest. This fall, Honda’s Fit will be on sale in Japan priced at 1.6 million yen hoping to become an instant hit. Honda will be launching the cute little car in Posted in: Economy , Hybrid Cars , Transportation

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Best Energy Efficiency Programs

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Announces Five Top Energy-Efficiency Award Winning Programs in Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York State

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Wind Energy Advantages

John Wickley asked: As the environment is in waning shape and the economy in a shambles, it’s clear that we need an answer. A great solution to both of these concerns comes in the form of renewable energy such as wind energy. As much of our budget is spent on importing finite sources of fuel, wind energy is a clean alternative which we can produce at home for a fraction of the cost. Our country’s leaders realize this is a great fix, but until a major and widespread national effort can be mobilized, the average homeowner can take advantage of wind energy advantages today. Consider these wind energy advantages. It’s clean to use wind energy. It was estimated that one utility scale windmill can cleanly produce the equivalent amount of energy that finite sources of energy would create along with 5,000 tons of CO2. Byproducts are the leading cause of pollution and deterioration of the ozone. The good news is that as soon as we make a major transition to this sort of energy, the ozone can begin healing itself and the air will immediately be noticeably cleaner, so it is by no means too late to act. It’s renewable, meaning we’ll never run out of wind energy. There will always be plenty of wind, more than enough to power even our homes from our own backyards. This will greatly cut back international and foreign spending which could single handedly save our economy. This brings us to the final of the wind energy advantages. Arguably the best of the wind energy advantages are the economical advantages it holds for the average homeowner. It’s never been easier to use wind energy, as the average homeowner can easily build their own windmills in their own backyards using new do it yourself guides created for even the least skilled homeowner. As the average household electricity bill is estimated to hover around $200 each month, that adds up to savings of nearly $2500 each year which you could be saving by making a simple switch. Some homeowners take this idea one step further, and take the information they learn in their guides to construct a second or even third windmill to exponentially increase the amount of electricity which they produce. As this abundance of electricity gets fed back into their power grids, the power company pays them for their electricity. The best part of these wind energy advantages is that there is no limit to how many windmills you can build or how much energy you can create. Many homeowners earn a handsome and reliable second income without any more work on their parts than building the initial windmills. And who couldn’t use a few extra thousand dollars or more each year in their budgets? Solar power Read more on Wind Energy Advantages… Energy Tags: battery technology , solar energy

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More Energy-Efficient Communications Networks

Reputed companies are always conscious about their brand image and what a great way to build great brand by taking clean and green route! Bell Lab is the division of the Alcatel-Lucent. Currently Alcatel-Lucent is trying to invest in their communications networks to make it 1,000 times more energy efficient. They have launched a Posted in: Economy , Industry , Inventions

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Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe

UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. But there are projects where it might make sense to join up with other countries, so this comes at a very good Posted in: Economy , Industry , Politics

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College Students Pursue ‘Clean Energy’ Careers

Nowadays students are not oblivious to the hazards of global warming. They are quite keen on pursuing a clean energy career. Now the concern about climate change is stimulating more undergraduate students to show interest in science and engineering. We can watch the trend of the rising interest in renewable energy. As leaders from Posted in: Economy , Future Energy , Industry

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China Unveils World’s Largest Solar Office Building

China is often dubbed as a heavy user of fossil fuels and polluter or a climate killer. Because it meets the 70% of its power needs by exploiting coals. But they are making changes on the environment front too. Slowly and steadily they are choosing wind and solar power as their source of energy. Posted in: Economy , Industry , Solar Power

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German Smart Grid Leads the Way in Conservation

There is an obvious push on not only using less energy, but in finding other forms of energy that will allow the world to recover from the years of literally pillaging its natural resources. Germany has been using some pretty innovative techniques to lead the way and their designers are coming up with Posted in: Economy , Environment , Industry

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Dell Installs Solar Trees in HQ Parking Lot

Two things are certain for the future: electric cars will become more popular and solar power will continue to grow as a viable source of energy. Because of this, the world is looking to industry leaders not only in the energy business, but to other major corporations that can have a major impact Posted in: Industry , Solar Power , Transportation

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