Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

Rinspeed eXasis Full Story With Specs and Details 
The Auto Channel - Feb 28 7:24 AM
Zumikon / Leverkusen “There’s never been anything like it” were the words used in the online edition of an acclaimed international news magazine to describe its editor’s reaction when the first sketches of the new Rinspeed concept car, “eXasis”, appeared on the Internet, “and it looks like no other vehicle before it”.Save

Warning on Warming 
New York Review of Books - Feb 23 12:52 PM
Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, 18 pp., available at www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/links/ipcc.htm#4wg1Save

Retirees trade sailing dream for Al Gore war 
WorldNet Daily - Feb 21 10:10 PM
JENSEN BEACH, Fla. Al Gore’s film about purported global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is not only favored to win an Oscar this weekend for best documentary feature, it is also prompting at least one couple in this South Florida town to change its retirement plans.Save

Close-Ups Expected of Jupiter’s Icy Moon ; Europa With Its Vast Ocean Might Off Chance of Finding Life 
RedNova - Feb 19 9:15 PM
By Eric Hand ST. LOUIS - A decade ago, NASA’s Galileo probe made a stupendous discovery: A vast, warm, salty ocean - bigger than all of Earth’s put together - under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter’s four large moons. Ever since, William McKinnon has been chafing to go back.Save

Climate Report Stokes Heat Under US And China by Richard Ingham and Anne Chaon Paris (AFP) Feb 02, 2007 
Space War - Feb 04 8:20 PM
Fresh warnings about climate change issued by a UN scientific panel here Friday place the onus for action on the United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, analysts say.Save

CORRECTING and REPLACING Colorado Explores Uses for Geothermal Energy
Forbes - Our hope is to have geothermal energy take a seat at Colorado’s renewable energy table alongside solar and wind power.” The Geothermal energy is currently used in a few Colorado locations for direct applications, such as heating swimming pools or

Brown defends call to cut coal sales
The Australian - But Senator Brown said that under global warming inflation “will be far worse because (of) the cost of adjustment to a heating That plan should involve renewables such as solar technology and hot rocks being used to take up the slack of providing

Pluto: Is it a planet or just a pretender? 
The Plain Dealer - Feb 10 9:19 PM
As the current school year be gan, classrooms from kin dergarten to college were abuzz with news from the frontiers of the solar system. Only days earlier, on Aug 24, 2006, astronomers had kicked Pluto out of the family of planets.Save

Solar panels show wave of the future 
The Deming Headlight - Feb 08 11:14 PM
Space usually taken by Robert Colburn’s thunder-eggs has recently been filled by a new array of photovoltaic solar panels.Save

PUC OKs Xcel solar contract 
Denver Business Journal - Feb 07 4:34 PM
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has formally approved a first-ever contract in Colorado approving Xcel Energy Inc.’s request to buy solar power from SunE Alamosa1 LLC.Save

FX Energy to Re-Enter Polish Wells
MSN MoneyCentral - PL Energia builds infrastructure aimed at using environmentally friendly energy sources, concentrating on cooling, heating and power projects. PL Energia uses supplementary natural gas and petrol resources and solar energy. FX Energy holds a land

Asa Aarons’ 50 Ways To Cut Your Heating Bill
wnbc.com - Heat escape often occurs at the highest and lowest levels of your home. Heat rises to your attic and so will your heating bill Think solar. Solar energy is becoming more practical with everything from address signs to sidewalk light powered by the sun

1,001+ Vista PC: Evesham Solar Creation GT 
PC Advisor - Jan 30 2:06 AM
Evesham will always draw praise for the quality of its aftersales support, but elsewhere its PCs don’t offer quite the value for money as rivals such as Arbico and Mesh do. There’s very little wrong with the Solar Creation, but it is outdone in most areas by other 1,001 Vista PCs. Save

Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection 
Slashdot - 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
ZonkerWilliam writes “It seems, at least theoretically, that there may be ‘ocean planets’ out there in the galaxy. If there are, we are closer than ever to detecting them. The formation of such planets is fairly likely, reports the PhysOrg article, despite the lack of an obvious example in our own solar system. We may have a former ocean planetoid in the neighborhood, orbiting the planet Jupiter: …Save