Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

George Harvey Speaks out on Brattleboro Community Public Television

You can hear more of what Green Energy Time’s own, George Harvey has to say about his vast knowledge and research of the most current worldwide energy news. His blog is on this website daily – but there is much more to share. Watch him weekly on BCTV. […]

Biogas Power in New York State

Small-scale biogas facility. (Richard Mayer, CC-BY-SA 3.0, tinyurl.com/RMBiogas)

George Harvey

The Times Union, a newspaper published in Albany, NY recently ran an opinion piece, “Other states consider biogas power to be renewable energy. Why doesn’t New York?” (tinyurl.com/BiogasInNY) The heading lays out the overall point of the article clearly. There is one important […]

Solar at the Somersworth, NH Superfund Site

The 1.992 MW-AC solar PV project at Somersworth, put on a part of a brownfield EPA Superfund site, will be the first of its kind in New Hampshire. (Courtesy image)

George Harvey

In the mid-1930s, the City of Somersworth in New Hampshire started operating a waste disposal facility for all sorts of materials, […]

A Glance at Late-Breaking News

George Harvey

August 18 – Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has promoted renewable energy for nearly his whole career. He said, “Economically, it makes no sense to just cede the future to China.” tinyurl.com/GETOctNews1

August 21 – The US offshore wind pipeline has hit 80 megawatts (MW). This is an […]

The Costs of Climate Chaos to U.S. Debt

Hurricane Helene hitting the Big Bend region of Florida. (EOSDIS Worldview, NOAA).

Can we save the country’s budget?

George Harvey

Bloomberg NEF has estimated that it would cost $196 trillion to bring us to net-zero emissions, globally, by 2050. Countries have promised to do just that, but they are failing (tinyurl.com/CostToNetZero). […]

Grazing Sheep Beneath Solar Panels Benefits Sheep and Farmers

Sheep grazing under solar panels. (Wikimedia Commons, https://bit.ly/AgrivoltaicsSheep)

George Harvey

Most of my life, I have lived in rural settings. When I was five to fifteen years old, I lived in the corn belt in Illinois. I have lived among mixed farms in New Hampshire. I have worked on a farm, […]

Offshore Wind Projects on the East Coast

Wind turbine components ready to load onto a ship. (Sunrise Wind and Ørsted)

George Harvey

For a long time, it looked like offshore wind power in the United States had got stuck in the doldrums. The Block Island wind project went into operation in 2016, with five turbines of 6 megawatts […]

Solar-Powered Boats

1216 Nautical Miles to Alaska or a Scenic Ride on the Hudson River

One of Solar Sal’s boats, The Wayward Sun, travels through the Inside Passage to Alaska entirely powered by the sun. (Courtesy photo)

George Harvey

Over the years, Green Energy Times has published at least four articles on Solar Sal, a […]

Can An Electric Vehicle Actually Last for 430,000 Miles on its First and Only Battery?

Tesla Model S, photo by Damian B Oh. CC-BY-SA 4.0. (https://bit.ly/GETTeslaModelS)

George Harvey

How long will and electric car last? To find the answer, we had to wait for old electric vehicles. Now, however, we are finding more and more old EVs, and the questions are getting answered.

In the past, […]

Record Growth is the Only Way to Hit the COP28 Target

Power County Wind Farm. Image from Energy.gov via Wikimedia Commons.

George Harvey

We have a lot of work to do on the climate crisis. We have everything we need to do it, in terms of equipment and knowledge, but there is still a big question about how it will be done.

COP28, […]