Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Time to audit your home’s energy use
HometownAnnapolis.com - Mention the word “audit” and most people cringe. But there is one type of audit that is easy, costs next to nothing, and can actually help you save money: A home energy audit. An audit will show you where your home may be wasting energy, which is a

70 Years Ago in Science News
Science News - Rains gorged Eastern rivers into disastrous flood in just a few days, but behind the rains was a background of excessive snow, that lay in the mountain valleys all winter long and had the soil saturated when the rains began to fall. The new water

Appalachian professor in Libya for research on today’s solar eclipse 
Asheville Citizen-Times - Mar 29 5:00 AM
BOONE — Full solar eclipses are rare events. That’s why a solar eclipse visible today along a path from Brazil to central Asia is gaining such attention from researchers and vacationers alike hoping to view the event.Save to My Web

School spending boost is ‘an aspiration’ 
ePolitix via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Mar 23 2:34 AM
The chancellor has said the government has an “aspiration” to boost spending per pupil in state schools to match that in the private sector.Save to My Web

Tech firm MSC aims for fleet of solar pyramids, IPO 
Hindustan Times - Mar 14 5:21 AM
Singapore-based technology firm MSC Power Corp is building its first sun-driven wind power station in India and aims to list this year on NASDAQ in an initial public offering that it says could be worth more than $5 billion.Save to My Web

Board OKs school construction bid
Hendersonville Times-News - Friday afternoon, the Henderson County School Board approved a $13,585,000 bid from H&M Construction to build the county’s newest elementary school before the start of the 2007-08 school year. The lowest bid was not only less expensive than three

Stardust Mission Finds ‘Fire and Ice’
Los Angeles Times - The first results from NASA’s Stardust mission to collect material from a comet has turned up a major surprise minute fragments of minerals formed under high temperatures rather than the simpler dust scientists had expected. The minerals were

Building biology: Could your home or office be making you sick?
Newstarget.com, Taiwan - Mar 9, 2006 from wiring and appliances. Using radiant heat and incorporating as much solar heat as possible. Producing, installing and disposing

MSC aims for fleet of solar pyramids
Hindustan Times, India - Mar 14, 2006 MSC has designed a pyramid-shaped power plant that draws in ambient air and heats it through solar power and solar heat to drive turbines.

Click Here To Read Bill Meck’s Weather Blog!
LEX 18 - Happy Sunday morning to you and hopefully your weekend has been less frustrating than mine. If you’re in Lexington, or anywhere north of I-64 you’re wondering where is the warmth we were talking about. All you have to do is look about 30 miles

Healthy Living at Green 2005 Exp o (March 9, 2005)
City of Berkeley - Free Energy-Saving Products Given Green Expo April 30 Berkeley, California (Thursday, March 9, 2005) Learn to make your home or office healthy and energy-efficient in one day! The City of Berkeley is hosting a free Green Home EXPO and Energy

Kokua Line 
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Mar 08 3:09 AM
Question: I wrote previously about the nonfunctioning clock on top of the state Judiciary Building, which has been broken for years. It is still broken. However, the time has moved from 3:20 to 4 p.m. Is anything being done to repair it?Save to My Web

Photovoltaik 
IWR - Mar 06 5:47 AM
Solarstromanlagen von Privathaushalten und Unternehmen sowie die gr ten Solarparks weltweit produzieren sauberen Strom mit Conergy Komponenten. Conergy bietet L sungen f r netzgekoppelte Anlagen, Inselanlagen bis hin zu architektonisch anspruchsvollen Sonderanlagen.Save to My Web

Sun power at work 
The Tribune - Feb 25 12:47 PM
Avisit to the Solar Energy Park within St Marys Church compound at Phulwari Sharif, near Patna, makes one wonder at the power of the sun.Save to My Web

Solar Empire Infinium
omgn.com (press release), Nevada - Mar 12, 2006 Solar Empire Infinium is a free, browser-based, multi-player game of space exploration, construction, trade, combat and politics.

Solar-Fabrik AG Secures 140 Megawatt Solar Cells
news aktuell (Pressemitteilung), Germany - Mar 14, 2006 Solar-Fabrik AG signs Letter of Intent with Taiwanese cell producer E-TON Solar for delivery of solar cells for the period 2007 2011

Gotta have it 
Miami Herald - Mar 13 6:00 AM
Start your week off wishing you had this latest gadget. There are few things in life less pleasurable than schlepping around large, bulky solar panels to recharge our handy-dandy iPods when we’re miles from a working AC outlet.Save to My Web

A Hail Mary against global warming peril / Cal grad student working on thin solar panel 
San Francisco Chronicle - Mar 13 6:55 AM
Long before President Bush told Americans they were addicted to oil, UC Berkeley graduate student Ilan Gur was down in his basement chemistry lab working toward a cure. Gur thinks big. His goal is to play a part in creating a new kind of solar panel,…Save to My Web