Tag Archives: green energy
Paying For Your Neighbors’ Solar Panels
Solar power adds to nonusers’ costs – SFGate.
Hey California. Guess who’s paying for your neighbor to put “free” solar panels on their roof? That’s right. You. Subsidies and higher utility bills suck money out of your pocket so the guy next door can feel better.
Apparently Al Gore Hates Hollywood
Green Crap
… when it comes to lending standards and the vilification of private financial institutions processing mortgages that were either backed or bought up by government-sponsored enterprises, the Obama admin is firmly in the “do as we say, not as we do” camp…
No, Bill, The Green Movement needs a Clue
Ex-President Clinton: Green movement needs money: The Associated Press
“This has to work economically,” he said. “You have to come up with the money on the front end.”
It has to work economically before anyone will willingly give you money on the front end.
A New Way to Extract Electricity from Heat
Waste heat converted to electricity using new alloy – Science Daily
University of Minnesota engineering researchers in the College of Science and Engineering have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity. This revolutionary energy conversion method is in the early stages of development, but it could have wide-sweeping impact on creating environmentally friendly electricity from waste heat sources.
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Thorium: A Reminder
Too Good to Leave on the Shelf – May 2010 Issue
molten salt reactors could actually deliver on nuclear power’s long-heralded promise of cheap and limitless energy.
The New Alternative Fuel
Thorium challenges nuclear norm | The Tennessean | tennessean.com
The thorium community recognizes that the continuing disaster at Fukushima, Japan, is the wake-up call for a change in technology going forward, and we believe that it should be TMSR technology.
Germany’s Nukeophobia
Thorium: Theory Into Practice
Washington, D.C.: Third TEA Conference: Theory Into Practice « Energy from Thorium
While previous conferences have focused on the theory of thorium power, and on educating a skeptical or ignorant public on the possibilities of a nuclear power industry based around cheap, safe and abundant thorium, this one was focused more on practice: on solving the actual challenges ahead for building thorium power plants.
