Greenhouse Gases
Sierra Club Canada, in a new report, estimates that the cost of energy from wind turbines will fall 3-5 percent with each new generation.
As representatives from 190 countries meet in Bangkok for the first of three United Nations climate change conferences aimed at fine tuning an international agreement to cut carbon emissions, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil-producing nation, is already making plans to do its part.
The burning of biomass generates more electricity in the U.S. than wind, solar and geothermal energy combined, but a new regulation scheduled for implementation January 2, 2011 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may discourage new biomass projects, including those proposing to convert from coal to biomass.
EnergyBoom.com, the global online leader in news and views about the clean and efficient energy sector, is today launching a new coverage “channel” that expands the site’s coverage of energy efficiency.
Well, not really; the chips are still golden brown and the Cheetos a cheery orange.
In 2008, the UK’s Guardian newspaper called Freiburg, Germany the world’s greenest city.
ConAgra Foods Inc. (NYSE: CAG), maker of brands including Hunt's, Chef Boyardee, Banquet, Pam cooking spray, Marie Callender's and Slim Jim snacks, said that it will trim its packaging, waste, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions by 2015.
Algeria spent most of the 19th-century and much of the 20th-century under French colonial rule. Since escaping from under France's thumb in 1962, it has struggled with instability: a coup, rebellion, civil war and Islamic militant violence.
The smart meter concept creates more efficient electricity use, could it do the same for automobile transportation?
