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Electricity and power are so expensive, you can usually only flip on the light switch to read your electricity bill. But that may all be changing. There have been doings afoot and things a transpiring on the clean energy front.

Finding energy that can meet mankind's present needs, while not jeopardizing the energy needs of future generations has been a veritable ballet for more than a decade. The current energy needs of the planet and the future energy needs of the planet have played against each other in a delicate symphony. Literally thousands of the best minds in the world have been working on this dilemma.

Several ideas have surfaced as far as clean, sustainable energy sources. Biofuels, wood pellets, manure, ethanol, etc.) solar power, wind power, wave power, and tidal power have all been paraded across the world stage, each with varying degrees of acceptance. As this issue pushes more and more towards the forefront of our collective consciousness, these clean energy solutions will become more accepted.

Bloggers speaking about clean energy can be found at sites like environmentalleader and solveclimate.

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  • Work The Wind! 4 Steps To Get Your Project Started


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    Are you interested in doing your own wind project? Let the Clean Energy Project Builder and CERT s help you get started with 4 steps! Step 1: Do your research! Knowing information about wind (what it is, how it works, how to get it) is a key component in your project’s success. Lucky for you, we have already ...
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  • Solar-powered plane flying across US lands in Washington DC


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    Voyage by Solar Impulse – the first to fly by night as well as day – is designed to showcase clean energy technology . . . → Read More: Solar-powered plane flying across US lands in Washington DC
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  • World Wind Turbines To Cross 300,000 Megawatt Mark


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    Wind turbines are here to stay. They are increasing in numbers every day, and industry figures show that the amount of energy they are able to generate has reached tremendous levels. The 19th century belonged to coal, the 20th to oil, and the 21st century belongs to clean energy, with wind energy being one of the ...
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  • U.S. rare earth metals mine reopens to combat Chinese monopoly


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    A rare earth metals mine in California is reopening as a Chinese monopoly controls 97 percent of the worlds supply. Image: CC Michael Diggles/Wikimedia Commons A major rare earth metals mine in the U.S. will resume operations in 2011. Molycorp closed the California rare earth metals mine in 2004 because it couldnt ...
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  • Spain Gets Reported To European Parliament By 100+ Spanish Bodies


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    The Spanish government has stepped on a few toes with its recent retroactive solar power incentive cuts… well, it has stepped on a lot of toes, and those toes are stepping back : Spain , in the midst of a less than ideal economic situation, recently made some retroactive cuts to its solar energy incentives. ...
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  • Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives


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    Related PostsCheap, Clean Ways to Produce Hydrogen for Use in Fuel Cells?All We Need To Fix The Planet Is More CashDecoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetlesScientists produce H2 for fuel cells... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • U.S Solar Hits Milestone


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    According to Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) and GTM Research’s latest US Solar Market Insight® quarterly report, several new milestones have been set in terms of U.S. solar growth: ·         48% of new electricity capacity comes from solar power. ·         723 MW of capacity was ...
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  • Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (RDS.A), BP plc (ADR) (BP): We’re Closer to $5 Gas Than You Think


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    There are several reasons to be optimistic about America’s energy prospects: Oil and gas production is climbing, alternative energy use is skyrocketing , and efficiency gains are giving us more bang for our buck. Yet despite all this good news on U.S. shores, we cannot forget that the U.S. is only one piece of ...
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  • Solar Energy In L.A.-- And Japan


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    Monday night I was at the Hammer Museum for a screening of Shaun Kadlecs and Deb Tullmanns fantastic new film, Born This Way , a documentary on the gay and lesbian underground in Cameroon. Afterwards I ran into Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti. Erics an old friend and one of the smartest politicians Ive ever met. He was a ...
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  • Dubai Sustainable City Will Be Powered By 600,000 Square Feet of Solar Cells


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    The Dubai Sustainable City development is the first of it’s kind in the United Arab Emirates and will use an impressive amount of space to house the solar cells required to power it. Construction of Dubai Sustainable City is planned across 4 phases. The first batch of 100 villas and townhouses within the city will ...
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  • Conserve Rainforests, Preserve Hydropower, Study Says


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    Photo Credit: Some rights reserved by EMSL via Flickr Hydropower is perhaps one of the largest sources of renewable energy in the world. In the United States alone, it accounts for almost 49% of the entire renewable energy share of the country. However, despite the apparent reliability of hydropower (compared ...
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  • NJ Spotlight Webinar: Offshore Wind – The Promise of the New Jersey Energy Link


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    The New Jersey Energy Link (NJEL) is a proposed offshore transmission backbone that promises to reduce energy congestion; lower electricity prices; and make New Jersey’s grid more reliable -- while delivering clean, renewable power generated by offshore wind.
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  • Green Energy Video: Ikea Powers-Up Rooftop Solar Panels on its Charlotte, NC Store


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    The 122,000-square-foot rooftop solar PV array consists of a 1,015-kW system, built with 4,228 panels. IKEA Charlotte’s program will produce approximately 1,330,000 kWh of clean electricity annually, the equivalent of reducing 938 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), eliminating the emissions of 195 cars or powering 140 ...
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  • Solar Energy In L.A.-- And Japan


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    Monday night I was at the Hammer Museum for a screening of Shaun Kadlecs and Deb Tullmanns fantastic new film, Born This Way , a documentary on the gay and lesbian underground in Cameroon. Afterwards I ran into Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti. Erics an old friend and one of the smartest politicians Ive ever met. He was a ...
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  • Australian Scientists Develop Catalyst To Turn Seawater Into Hydrogen Fuel


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    A team of scientists from the Australia-based University of Wollongong have developed a way to turn sea water into hydrogen in order to produce an unlimited clean energy source. They believe that their system would allow five liters of sea water to produce enough hydrogen to power an average-sized home and an ...
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  • Renewable Energy Investment in South Africa


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    South Africa faces the dual challenge of pursuing economic growth and protecting the environment. South Africa has set up the institutional infrastructure for renewable energy projects which are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • BMW, GM Test Fast Charge Stations


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    BMW and General Motors engineers say they have passed a milestone in adopting theSociety of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) standard for DC fast charge stations, charging pre-production versions of the BMW i3 and the Chevrolet Spark EV using stations developed by various suppliers. GM and BMW say this ...
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  • Fossil Fuel–based Power Stations Unnecessary To Back Up Wind


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    An incidental note at the bottom of a wildlife article covering the culling of badgers in the UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph could have explosive results for the energy industry. According to the addendum , a measly four paragraphs in length, the National Grid — the country’s electric grid operator — has ...
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  • Nearly Half New US Electricity Capacity Came From Solar In Quarter 1


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    The first quarter of 2013 was a pretty healthy period for solar energy development in the U.S., with a total of 723 megawatts of new capacity installed from January through March. That’s 33% more than what was installed during the first quarter of 2012. Perhaps the most outstanding figure from the GTM Research ...
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  • Obama Quietly Raises Carbon Prices… $38 a metric ton in 2015 from $23.80… Pushing for clean energy?


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    Obama Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline. The increase of the ...
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