Smart Grid System in Wailea (Hawaii)
October 13, 2009
Written by Thomas Slater, in Smart Grid, Solar, United States, Wind
As power developers are drawing plans for wind farms in unpredictable currents and goals of 70% clean energy must be met state wide by 2030, General Electric (GE) is planning to test its Smart Grid system in Wailea – a resort community on Maui. Currently the state of Hawaii generates 90% of power from fossil [...]
Peak Oil & Mass Transit in California
October 10, 2009
Written by Thomas Slater, in California, Green Business, Green Energy, Green News, Green News Feature
Researchers at the UK Energy Research Center have recently completed a study indicating that Peak Oil – the point of highest production of oil worldwide, after which oil production will decline sharply – will be reached by the year 2030 at the very latest. On the alarmist side the report’s chief author Steve Sorrell warns [...]
Which Power Source to use in the Klamath Region
October 10, 2009
Written by Thomas Slater, in Green Business, Green News, Green News Feature
With over six thousand years of continuous human inhabitance, the Klamath River in Oregon and California is an American Nile for the people living on its banks. For all but the last hundred years of its life, the Klamath gave an abundant harvest of salmon to the Native Americans who fished it – the Yurok, [...]
