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Where Does Wind Power Come From?
One thing that we haven’t written about extensively on the MyEnergySolution.com blog is wind power. Wind power is an interesting renewable energy source as wind turbines can essentially be placed anywhere geographically where there is ample wind to turn the wind blades. While there are smaller home wind power systems, the most powerful and efficient [...]
States That Consume the Least Amount of Electricity Are Great Candidates for Energy Efficient Solutions
By: John K. Norris, Contributing Writer to MyEnergySolution.com Recently, the San Diego Union-Tribune published data indicating that the individuals in states that use the least amount of power, pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country. This seems to be counter-intuitive but the reason is fairly simple: utility companies have to spread the costs [...]
NPR’s Report on California’s Quest for Clean Power
National Public Radio (NPR) aired a special report on California’s effort towards clean energy last week. Here is a quick summary of the five-day report. Day 1: Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom Ever since the creation of the first wind farm in the San Francisco area, California has been the leader of [...]
How Viable Is ‘Clean Coal’?
What can or should Congress to do incentivize “clean coal” technology? An administration task force said in a report last week that while the barriers to “clean coal” technology — known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) — can be overcome, deploying it on a wide scale means setting a price on carbon emissions. Evidence [...]
Disturbed Land Becomes Destination for Solar Farms
One of environmentalists’ major concerns about adding solar farms in places such as the Mojave Desert is the destruction of land and disturbance of the natural habitat. But what if that land was already destroyed due to salt contamination from over-irrigation? Could these environmentalists bear to place a solar farm over this disturbed land? Right [...]
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
By Catherine Maleki With 70,000 barrels of oil spewing out in the Gulf Coast every day and numerous failed attempts by BP to contain the spill, it hardly seems that the Gulf Coast oil spill has any silver lining at all. But never fear because old adages always prove to be true. The one good [...]
