Solar Park to Create Power for 10,000 Homes
Great news in the green energy sector this week – Canada has turned on its new solar energy park. The Ontario First Light Solar Park is the largest of its kind in Canada and can proudly boast to generate enough power for 10,000 homes each year.
The joint project [...]
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category
21 Oct
The Ontario First Light Solar Park in Canada
23 Jun
North African Solar Panelled Farms
Will North African Solar Panelled Deserts Result in Cheaper Energy
The deserts of North Africa are now being considered to supply Europe with energy generated by massive solar paneled farms. The idea is now a very attractive one now that the numbers have been crunched to see if harvesting the deserts of North Africa could actually [...]
18 Jun
‘Fuel’ The Movie: Green Energy Award Winner
There is an excellent movie highlighting the madness of our dependence on fossil fuels out in cinemas the USA at the moment. ‘Fuel‘ from Josh Tickell was the winner of the prestigious Audience Award for Best Documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has had such an impact that Mr Tickell won an [...]
20 May
Green Energy in 2009 – Do you still care? (Poll)
We are in the midst of unprecendented economic times. The strain on every household and business in the UK is currently being sorely tested. Monthly bills including telephone, broadband, food and drink are all becoming more and more difficult to manage for many people. With this in mind, where do your energy bills feature in [...]
14 Apr
Copenhagen Conference Vital to Climate Future
The upcoming United Nations COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is the most vital international climate change conference since Kyoto in 1997. This conference is important for a host of reasons, partly due to its timing and also due to the fact that the climate change sitaution is actually alot worse than was previously thought.
From [...]
17 Mar
Google goes Green
It is being reported that the gods at Google are planning on looking into green and cheaper energy solutions, at Google they understand that they have a large part to play in the future development of renewable energy, after all they do dominate most of the internet market, just think how many computers they are [...]
6 Mar
Green Hydro Energy
Hydropower
Of the renewable energy sources Hydropower is the most established of them all. Hydropower has been used for centuries when the likes of water mills where used to generate power but in the last couple of decades turbines have been used to convert the flow of water into electricity, generally the modern systems is a [...]
6 Mar
Renewable Manure
Manure Energy
Renewable energy is the way forward if the world is going to survive, We can try and predict the future but to be honest nobody knows what kind of stage our planet is coming to in its life, We can blame this and that but the truth is it might have happened anyway – [...]
17 Dec
Will 2009 see a reduction in UK energy bills?
Well, obviously for all our sakes we hope the answer to the above is a resounding Yes! but who knows.
Energy Secretary Ed Milliband has re-iterated his call for the recent drop in wholesale gas and electricity prices to be passed onto consumers. At least one Electricity Supplier has hinted as possible price cuts early in [...]
30 Oct
Renewable Vs Nuclear Debate continues
Continuing on from Johnny Ball championing Nuclear Power, i came across a very interesting letter in The Herald today from Kerr McGregor of the Scottish Solar Energy Group. Aside from detailing an appealing energy-mix solution, the summary paragraph addresses the Nuclear debate far more elegantly that i ever could:
As for nuclear, it is fatally flawed [...]
