Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia, has been rated the second most polluted city in the world by the World Bank. Air particle pollution is created when raw coal is burned by many thousands to stay warm in winter. Air pollution was linked to about ten percent of all deaths in the city of over...
Hello- Matt Bartlett here…
I recently finished reading all the books shown below and highly recommend them. If you or someone you know is a renewable energy fan…these books would make a great gift.
The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World
The electrical grid goes everywhere...
Experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council today unveiled a groundbreaking proposal to sharply cut carbon pollution from America’s power plants, featuring a unique federal-state partnership and flexibility for plant owners that will hold down costs and improve Americans’ health.
NRDC’s...
Experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council today unveiled a groundbreaking proposal to sharply cut carbon pollution from America’s power plants, featuring a unique federal-state partnership and flexibility for plant owners that will hold down costs and improve Americans’ health.
NRDC’s innovative...
DuPont is building one of the world’s largest cellulosic biofuel plants in Nevada, Iowa; and it’s going to take a lot of corn stover to keep this baby humming, to the tune of 30 million gallons of ethanol per year. Corn stover is the leaves, stems, and anything else left over from harvesting the...
Researchers from Rice University have created a ‘seamless’ graphene and nanotube hybrid. The material is probably the best electrode interface material possible for energy storage usages and other related electronics applications, according to the researchers.
The new hybrid material appears as...
Three NASA satellites are now being used by a professor from the Tel Aviv University to gauge an accurate measure of the pollution levels over our planet’s megacities, the first to provide a comprehensive standardised global testing of pollution levels.
Prof. Pinhas Alpert of Tel Aviv University’s...
LONDON — Europe should consider cutting costs for consumers by rewarding renewable power and energy efficiency through the region’s carbon market rather than through expensive subsidies to utilities, the head of EON SE’s trading unit said.Clean-electricity...
When it comes to potential new renewable energy sources, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) has a lot going for it. Greenhouse gas emissions and their climate change effects, ongoing ecosystem and biodiversity loss and degradation, and already high fossil fuel prices — with the likelihood of...
Despite criticism about the lack of action on climate change policy, the Obama Administration is moving forward with further expanding renewable energy policy. Case in point, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) is opening up bids for offshore wind farming off the Atlantic Coast.
US Secretary of...
