Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

PowerLight to run $75M GE solar plant in Portugal
San Francisco Business Journal - PowerLight Corp. said Thursday that it designed and will operate and maintain the world’s largest solar power plant, to be built in Portugal. GE Financial Services , based in Stamford, Conn., will pay for and own the $75 million solar power project

THE FINAL FRONTIER FROM WONDER TO WEAPONS, SPACE REMAINS MAN’S LAST
Free Lance-Star - EFORE THERE WERE the modern distractions of computers, video games, the Internet, and television programs to entertain us after the sun sank below the horizon, there were the stars. The stars, moon, and planets were my constant companions when I was

Event shines on ‘green’ buildings
Detroit News - The Festival of Sustainable Living will be held Saturday and Sunday at Oakland Steiner School, 3976 S. Livernois, Rochester Hills. The festival will include workshops on “green” building, biodiesel, alternative energy and other topics. A film

Greenville preparing for Uni-Solar expansion
WOOD - Update: GREENVILLE — 24 Hour News 8 has learned Uni-Solar, the company many believe is Greenville’s economic savior, will need to expand beyond its initial plan. One month ago, Uni-Solar announced it was expanding its operations to Greenville

This house of glass is 54 and trendy
Antelope Valley Press - PALMDALE - As one might expect would go with the territory in his business, Palmdale Glass & Mirror Company president and owner Hal Monheim admits, “We’ve definitely broken some glass over the years.” He added, however, that his employees are not

Shop Talk: Glass Rite
Albuquerque Tribune - The business: Steve: We manufacture and install our own windows. Our specialty is replacement windows. What we do is the retrofit. For example, if you have single pane, we’ll replace with double pane. We make vinyl windows and aluminum thermal-break

Vast quantities of water spewed from comet 
Independent Online - Apr 04 7:06 AM
Around a quarter of a million tons of water spewed out from Comet Tempel 1 after the space rock was hit in Nasa’s “Deep Impact” mission last year, far more than previously thought, astronomers have said.Save to My Web

NASA's new budget blows it.
Slate - Mar 29, 2006 canceled missions would study water vapor in the atmosphere, monitor deforestation, examine ocean currents, and figure out how much solar heat is reflected

"Complete Solar Roof" Offers Power and Heat
RenewableEnergyAccess.com, NH - Mar 27, 2006 roofing products with a unique combination of solar electric (C21e) and solar thermal (C21t) integrated tiles to generate combined solar heat and power from

Dreaming in green OR Green dreams can come true
MyWebTimes.com, IL - Apr 13, 2006 For example, a green home could use solar energy for heating and/or lighting, and "smart lighting systems" with skylights and large windows to reduce the need

Harnessing Daylight for Energy Savings
GreenBiz, DC - 2 hours ago Designing buildings properly and controlling glare and solar heat gain can cut energy bills by more than half. By David Kozlowski.

Zero-energy homes becoming more popular 
The Times of Northwest Indiana - Apr 05 11:02 PM
Q: I’ve heard the term “zero-energy house” a few times recently and though I’m not sure what it is, I like the sound of it. Is this something real or an idea for the future?”Save to My Web

Programmable thermostat helps maximize energy savings 
Pioneer Press - Apr 15 1:13 AM
Q. Whenever we come home to an empty house, my husband always sets the thermostat way high in winter. He says it warms the house quicker. We try to save money by turning it down when the house is empty, but I wonder if we’re losing any savings when he sets it so high for a few hours to warm us up. Is he offsetting our savings this way?Save to My Web

Clean Energy? Nothing ‘Clean’ About it!
Cape Cod Today - What goes round, comes round. At least I hope it does. Cape Wind found a loop-hole, literally, in the State waters and has been attempting to slip slide itself into that little piece of federal water inside Massachusetts State waters in the Nantucket

BSC chemistry students invent “The Green Machine”
Comment - Chemistry students from Bridgewater State College recently won first place in the national “Chemvention” contest - sponsored by the American Chemical Society - to create a toy that teaches concepts of chemistry. The winning entry from the Bridgewater

Going Green 
The Post & Mail - Apr 10 12:40 PM
The sound of a wind turbine whooshed above the heads of the nearly 150 people who listened to the dedication of three new green buildings at Merry Lea Environmental Center of Goshen College.Save to My Web

Super-efficient Panhandle home also teaching tool 
Lancaster News - Apr 07 7:13 AM
Rod Trump’s January power bill was $80 and some change. Sure, the month was one of the warmer Januarys on record, but $80 isn’t bad when you consider that Trump and his wife, Neily, live in a 4,000-square-foot home in the Lakeview Landing subdivision.Save to My Web