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Game Plan Energy Literacy

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:12:29 -0000

The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less than 23 x100 Watt light bulbs.

Tags: energy reference

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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Dethroning King Coal

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:34:51 -0000

It’s economics, as much as—if not more than–environmentalism, that’s helping to shift investment away from coal.

Tags: 2008 article coal economics energy

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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Polysilicon Bonanza: Rising Supplies, Sinking Prices

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:05:37 -0000

Global polysilicon production is expected to double over the next two years. That should bring some sanity to the market – and cut into the enormous profit growth seen by polysilicon producers over the past two years.

Tags: 2008 article economics energy silicon

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U.S. coal power boom suddenly wanes | csmonitor.com

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:25:23 -0000

Concerns about global warming and rising building costs are blocking construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States and pushing utilities to turn to natural gas and renewable power instead.

Tags: 2008 article coal economics energy

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Future of coal power under fire

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:23:46 -0000

Coal-producing states that supply nearly half of the nation’s electricity are feeling squeezed as efforts to combat global warming outpace technology needed to make the nation’s most abundant fossil fuel burn more cleanly.

Tags: 2008 article coal economics energy

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Thermal Power Heats Up Nevada - TIME

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:21:29 -0000

Entrecanales worries that a lack of water could limit the growth of the technology in the very desert areas that receive the most sun.

Tags: 2008 article csp energy solar

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First Solar, Inc. - Next Generation Thin Film Solar Modules

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:09:05 -0000

Tags: cadmium cadmium-telluride company energy solar

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Clothes power up thanks to nanowires

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:18:55 -0000

Researchers in the US have invented a yarn that can generate electricity simply by being bent or twisted. Clothes made from the fabric could generate enough electricity to power a mobile phone or iPod, the scientists say.

Tags: 2008 article clothing energy

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Turning Glare Into Watts

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:21:23 -0000

The newest solar-thermal technology involves building a “power tower,” a tall structure flanked by thousands of mirrors, each of which pivots to focus light on the tower, heating fluid.

Tags: 2008 article energy solar

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Energy map of America

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:17:18 -0000

Includes nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass.

Tags: energy map usa

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New global wind map may lead to cheaper power supply

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:08:21 -0000

Converting as little as 20 percent of potential wind energy to electricity could satisfy the entirety of the world's energy demands.

Tags: 2005 article energy reference wind

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World energy resources and consumption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:01:31 -0000

In 2004, the average total worldwide power consumption of the human race was 15 TW (= 1.5 x 1013 W) with 86.5% from burning fossil fuels.

Tags: energy reference

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Map Reveals Airstream Potential

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:49:19 -0000

If turbines were set up in all these regions, they would generate 72 terawatts of electricity, according to the researchers.

Tags: 2005 article energy wind

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Whatever Happened to Solar Power? | LiveScience

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:54:05 -0000

Solar energy is the light alternative to a carbon-rich energy diet, and it may be the only renewable energy that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, engineers say.

Tags: 2008 article csp energy solar

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Technology Review: Flexible, Nanowire Solar Cells

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:46:42 -0000

The aim is to produce flexible, affordable solar cells composed of Group III-V nanowires that, within five years, will achieve a conversion efficiency of 20 percent.

Tags: 2008 article energy nanowires physics

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China’s Green Energy Gap - New York Times

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:55:03 -0000

CLP’s differing energy choices are a case study in how one company grapples with the need to provide electricity to hundreds of millions of impoverished Asians even as it is under a self-imposed goal of trying to limit emissions of global warming gases.

Tags: 2007 article biomass china coal

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Finnish plant demonstrates nuclear power industry's perennial problems - International Herald Tribune

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:48:11 -0000

After accounting for costs from construction and fuel to maintenance, electricity from a new U.S. nuclear plant in 2015 would be 15 percent more expensive over the reactor's life than natural gas and 13 percent more than coal.

Tags: 2007 article coal economics energy

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Technology Review: Tidal Turbines Help Light Up Manhattan

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:38:51 -0000

Thanks to lessons learned by wind turbine designers, tidal power is already economically competitive, producing electricity at prices similar to wind power,

Tags: 2007 article energy nyc tidal

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Magenn Power Inc.

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:28:56 -0000

MARS is a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, generating electrical energy.

Tags: company energy usa wind

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Underwater turbines set to generate record power - tech - 21 August 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:04:11 -0000

By the end of the year, twin underwater turbines should be generating 1.2 megawatts of electricity off the coast of Northern Ireland in a landmark demonstration of tidal power technology.

Tags: 2007 article energy ireland tidal

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