Getting Green Off The Grid

Ontario will invite small energy producers to sell electricity back into the grid. Awesome news for Canada. When will the U.S. get with the program?
Straight Goods - Decentralizing power - Every building could be its own power station, using heat pumps, solar panels and micro wind turbines.
Decentralized electricity generation is quite popular […]

Haitian biodiesel. Sounds like something to finally build a stable economy upon.
Poor Countries Can Have Smart Policies
On the Dominican side of the border are plantations of Jatropha curcas shrubs, which produce the physic nut (also known as Barbados nut), used to extract vegetable oil. The oil can be refined into biodiesel, an alternative fuel […]

I like the idea of this house. It’s probably a bit too small for me, but it’s good inspiration.
BCNG Portals Page
Features of the house include solar panels on the south side of the roof that absorb the heat from the sun, which is converted into electricity. The house is also oriented on the lot […]

A good starter windmill?
Get Off the Grid: Air-X Personal Wind Turbine - Gizmodo

Wind power on reservations can only be a good thing.
RedOrbit - Science - Study Investigates Hopi Wind Power Potential
“There are about 13,000 Hopis living on the reservation, and some of the villages have no electricity from the outside. Some use solar power. If we prove that their return in wind turbines will be larger than […]

Personally, I’d prefer a few birds to die by hitting the windmills than to keep polluting and affect many more, but that’s just me. The radar issue just adds another wrinkle.
JS Online:Horicon wind farm foes find unlikely ally in U.S. Air Force
Wildlife groups that want to block construction of a wind power project near […]

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I’ve got a few in mind, but haven’t had time to flesh them out.
Solar Night Industries Seeks Cutting Edge Solar Innovations for License and Distribution @ SYS-CON Media
Solar Night Industries, Inc (OTC Pink Sheets: SLND.PK), http://www.solarnightindustries.com/ is a solar solutions company whose mission is to acquire, develop, and distribute solar products for the consumer, commercial, […]

Nice combination!
Fuel Cell Today - Japanese Cities to Use Wind to Produce Hydrogen for Fuel Cells
The concept of exploiting wind power to extract hydrogen for fuel cells is gaining momentum in Hokkaido, where the abundant wind can be tapped for this purpose.
Although the amount of electricity generated by wind power is unstable, using this […]

The military cleaning up its own mess with wind power. Makes sense.
CBS 6 Albany
The Air Force is proposing construction of a 660-kilowatt wind turbine at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod.
The turbine would power the equipment being used to clean-up groundwater that was contaminated by military operations on the base.
The Air […]