Sweden finances Tanzania's rural solar power transformation
People's Daily Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:27 PM PST
Tanzania has received over three billion Tanzanian shillings (about 2.2 million U.S. dollars)from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to implement rural solar power project in the eastern African country, the local media reported on Friday. After the inauguration of the project, Tanzania Assistant Commissioner of Energy and Minerals Hosea Mbise said that the project was ... |
Duluth company buys renewable energy credits to offset lights
Post-Bulletin Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:23 PM PST
DULUTH -- Doug Zaun and Rachel Wagner were thinking about how nice the holiday lights would look in Canal Park in Duluth. Then their thoughts turned a bit Grinch-like. What about all that electricity, much of it created by coal-burni |
Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
International Herald Tribune Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:09 PM PST
Some renewable energy technologies rely on a group of elements called rare earths, but they mainly come from environmentally damaging mines in China. |
Providing spark
Hibbing Daily Tribune Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:03 PM PST
HIBBING â€" The NBA recognizes how important bench players are by awarding its Sixth Man Award to the top player in the league who comes off the bench. Bench players are usually put in to add spark to their team, providing energy and the intensity needed to turn around teams’ fortunes. |
question of the week
Coast Reporter Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:03 PM PST
Part of a scientist's duty is that of being skeptical â€" (consensus is not science). I do hate pollution, smog, waste of energy, Hummers, but is man so all powerful that he can control nature and the climate of the world? Is it man or nature that make short term climate warming and cooling? |
Catching some rays
The Register-Herald Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:56 PM PST
Robert Pate had been musing over solar energy two or three years, but he couldn’t find a local contractor to make his dream a reality.After years of searching, he stumbled upon Saving Sunshine, a Lewisburg contractor, and decided to make a $21,000 plus investment on installing 12 solar panels on large poles in his yard. |
Wildcat Glades earns green credits
The Joplin Globe Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:54 PM PST
The Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center has joined Green-e Marketplace, a national proponent of sustainable energy, after receiving a donation of renewable energy credits from The Empire District Electric Co. |
Federal waste dump sells tons of excavated salt
News 8 Austin Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:42 PM PST
The Energy Department's Carlsbad field office has reached an agreement with Magnum Minerals LLC of Hereford, Texas, which will buy up to 300,000 tons of salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, known as WIPP. |
Energy audit shows gain in efficiency
Denton Record-Chronicle Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:24 PM PST
Except for the bills at its four newest schools, Denton school district's utility costs for 2008-09 decreased by more than $13,000 over the previous fiscal year, a recent energy audit found. District officials say the savings is a sign that efforts in recent years to conserve energy are working. Overall, utilities for the 2008-09 fiscal year cost nearly $7.2 million, the report showed, which was ... |
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