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The Jakarta Post has an article on a green building experiment in Singapore - A living laboratory for energy efficiency . Changes start at home, they say. And Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Academy lives up to that adage with its recently opened Zero Energy Building. At ...
Energy/Transportation
Singapore
Energy Efficiency
Bloomberg has a report on efforts to expand geothermal energy output in East Africa - Kenya to Boost Geothermal Output by 4,000MW in Two Decades . Kenya plans to boost geothermal generation capacity by 4,000 megawatts over the next two decades to ensure East Africa’s biggest economy has clean ...
Energy/Transportation
Kenya
Wind Power
Michael Bloomberg
The BBC reports that WA is seeing a much larger than average rise in the level of the ocean - W Australia sea level rising fast . New figures have revealed that sea levels along the coast of Western Australia are rising at a rate double that of the world average. Statistics from Australia's ...
Energy/Transportation
Australia
The LA Tmes has a post on the effectiveness of nuclear power for mitigating global warming - Nuclear power: less effective than energy efficiency and renewable energy? . The Environment California Research & Policy Center concluded that launching a nuclear power industry nearly from the ground ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Energy Efficiency
California
Green Building of the week from Inhabitat is this energy-positive house in Sweden - Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in Sweden . Karin Adalberth, a doctor of building physics, partnered with local green utility company E. ON when she designed the plans for Villa Akarp, which is ...
Energy/Transportation
Sweden
Wind Power
Technology Review has an article on a pilot plant being built by Zeachem to make ethanol using termite microbes - A New Route to Cellulosic Biofuels . Biofuel startup ZeaChem has begun building a biofuel pilot plant that will turn cellulosic feedstocks into ethanol via a novel approach that uses ...
Energy/Transportation
Boing Boing has a post on the bizarre lengths the British government is going to to try and eradicate file sharing - Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws . A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Gas 2.0 has a report on efforts by the US military to reduce their dependence on oil - U.S. Army’s New Research Center Puts Fossil Fuels on Notice . If we need just one more reason to be convinced that the era of fossil fuels is quickly winding down, 30,000 square feet of evidence is going up ...
Energy/Transportation
Michigan
Urban Photos has an interesting post on an unsettling indication (for Australian raw material suppliers anyway) that China's infrastructure building boom may be a house of cards - Inner Mongolia's Empty City . In August, I came across an intriguing photo in Tokyo’s Mori Museum — a group of what ...
Energy/Transportation
China
Mongolia
The New York Times has an article on historical observations of anthropogenic climate change - Ben Franklin on Global Warming . In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson opined in his “Notes on Virginia” that “both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged,” ...
Energy/Transportation
REW has a report on US DOE funding for geothermal energy R&D; - A Turning Point for Geothermal: DOE Funding Wins Industry Approval . DOE's October 29 announcement awarding $338 million in stimulus funding to geothermal energy research and development projects is the largest injection of funding ...
Energy/Transportation
Auto Industry
Wind Power
The climate tinfoil world is abuzz with discussion of a large volume of emails hacked out of the University of East Anglia's email servers recently (funny how these sorts of things tend to happen just before large climate summits like Copenhagen). RealClimate casts an eye over the chatter and ...
Energy/Transportation
Reuters has a report on Intel's interest in clean energy technology, particularly sensor technology to help optimise wind power generation - Intel sees opportunities in wind, electric cars . Technology giant Intel Corp is seeing big opportunities in wind forecasting for power generation, and in ...
Energy/Transportation
The Guardian has a report on climate forecasts for the coming century - Global temperatures could rise 6C by end of century, say scientists . Global temperatures are on a path to rise by an average of 6C by the end of the century as CO2 emissions increase and the Earth's natural ability to ...
Energy/Transportation
CO2
The WSJ's Environmental capital blog has an interesting post on Saudi Arabia's interest in supercomputers - Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers? . So, what to make then of Aramco’s recent interest in supercomputers? The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers ...
Energy/Transportation
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Aramco
Tom Friedman has another installment of his geo-green, "green is the new red, white and blue" / "the world is getting hot, flat and crowded" sermon in the NYT - What They Really Believe . I am a clean-energy hawk. Green for me is not just about recycling garbage but about renewing America. That ...
Energy/Transportation
George Monbiot is giving the peak oil story another run, in typically gloomy fashion, declaring "It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production" - If Nothing Else, Save Farming . I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do ...
Energy/Transportation
Inhabitat has a post on some pleasant looking new thin film solar panels - Uber-Thin Modular Solar Panels Energize Any Building . The recent evolution of solar technology has been nothing short of amazing, and we are continuously impressed by all the products hitting the market that make it ...
Energy/Transportation
The NYT has a post on the effect of exercise on the brain - Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious . Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of ...
Energy/Transportation
The SMH has an article pondering how much of the investment being made into the Gorgon gas project will be spent in Australia - Gor-gone? . It has been dubbed Western Australia's own stimulus package. However, the value of most contracts awarded so far in the $43 billion Gorgon liquefied natural ...
