Submitted by New Energy News Blog Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë wants to create Autolib, a public electric car sharing program designed like the Parisian Vélib’ bicycle program. The plan is to place 4000 EVs at locations around the city and, for a small fee one-time fee or as part of a monthly subscription, Parisians can grab an electric car and go from a pick-up …
Kansas Fights Back
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Iberdrola’s Krista Gordon took a few moments off from her work building wind power in western Kansas to point out to NewEnergyNews this week that Kansas is emerging as a national leader in the building of New Energy and the fight against dirty coal. And it is doing so without legislative mandates. No state Renewable Electricity …
NEW ENERGY FINDS HOME IN SOLAR NEW MEXICO
Submitted by New Energy News Blog New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has worked hard for 4 years to get his state its new nickname. Once “the Land of Enchantment,” New Mexico is now also “the Clean Energy State.” Richardson has pushed dozens of incentive programs, costing the state a lot of money. His plan? Drive demand for a resource he knows …
HAWAIIAN MARINE ALGAE
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Marine algae require no fresh water and no agricultural land and should not affect the price of food crops except perhaps to drive it down by taking the biofuels market away from corn, soybeans, sugar and other AGROfuel crops. Algae thrive on a diet of greenhouse gas emissions and can be grown adjacent to fossil …
DELAWARE A STEP CLOSER TO FIRST U.S. OFFSHORE WIND
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Could this announcement of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between a Delaware utility and a company that wants to build a wind installation off the Delaware coast herald a new era in U.S. wind energy? European nations are aggressively competing for richly productive, highly sought after and scarce offshore wind turbines. They are building installations …
WIND TECH JOB TRAINING BOOSTS LOCAL COLLEGES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Wind turbines are being installed in the U.S. so fast the supply of maintenance/repair personnel can’t keep up with demand. Community colleges that prepare students to do the work are fending off companies who want to hire the students out of the classrooms. Christine Real de Azua, spokeswoman, American Wind Energy Association: “You’re looking at …
TRY CO2 RELEASE TO DEEP OCEAN, SEE HOW BAD IT CAN BE: PROF
Submitted by New Energy News Blog From the “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” file: A prominent ocean scientist wants environmentalists to withdraw their opposition to the release of CO2 gases directly into the “benthic world” (the lowest levels of the ocean) so science can find out how bad it affects deep sea life. Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, …
A CALL FOR NEW ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog The Apollo Alliance wants a $30 billion/year concerted national effort to transition the U.S. to a New Energy infrastructure and a New Energy economy. The Alliance, a national coalition of politicians, environmentalists, labor groups and businesses, suggests getting from the current $4 billion/year investment to the needed level by boosting spending a few billion dollars/year for …
OKLAHOMA WIND – THE FUTURE”S OK
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Oklahoma is the state where in the words of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song, “…the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.”It requires an industry to turn that wind into electricity. Part of that industry is making turbines. Part of making turbines is what DMI Industries does. Kevin Ishmael, DMI: “We manufacture tubular towers for the …
MILESTONE FOR TIDE ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Britain has, at least since Queen Elizabeth I’s time, thought of itself as a proud island nation reliant on its dominance of the seas for its strength and security. Now its conquest of its oceans has taken on a new meaning. It is going out to meet the New Energy age by establishing an ocean …