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Wind Power: Cell Phone Towers Powered by Wind

By Jace Shoemaker-... on November 17, 2009

Tags: Core Communications Group, Helix Wind Corp., Southern California, Africa, cell phone towers, Core Communications, helix wind, Helix Wind Verticle Axis Wind Turbines, OTC:HLXW, wind energy, wind power, wind powers cell phone towers, cellular telephone, electricity, West Africa

Helix Wind Corp. (OTC:HLXW) recently announced it will be testing two small vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT) to power cell phone towers from Core Communications Group.

Zero Waste Farming And West Africa's Bioenergy Markets Conference

By Harry Tournemille on November 2, 2009

Tags: Ghana, biodiesel, bioenergy, Bioenergy Markets Conference, biofuel, biogas, biogas digester, developing countries, Economic Community of West African States, five natural kingdoms, Ghana, methane, Zero Waste Farming, biofuels, Economic Community of West African States, electricity, energy, food, West Africa

Last week key players from the Economic Community of West African States met with global industry experts at the Bioenergy Markets Conference in Ghana.

Rubber Trees to Provide Electricity in Liberia

By Leslie Berliant on October 1, 2009

The tiny African nation of Liberia, founded by America in 1821 as a colony for freed slaves and which has suffered decades of coups and civil war, has big plans to become “the world's first sustainable biomass-driven economy”, Scott Stearns of Voice of America

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