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ORPC, based in Portland, Maine, develops generating technology based on moving water. This RivGen power system now provides power to a village in Alaska. Credit Ocean Renewable Power Company. George Harvey Here at Green Energy Times, we see an impressive amount of real news. It leads us inescapably to an […] 2050 Is Not Soon Enough For a Fix Shishmaref, Alaska, is falling into the sea. Photo: Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. George Harvey Some among us could look at the fact that the United Kingdom adopted a law mandating that it be 100% carbon free by 2050 as good news (See […] Beer. Iva Balk, Wikimedia Commons. George Harvey Most beer is made from barley malt. Perhaps the greatest reason for this is that barley malt, which is dried sprouted barley grains, is particularly rich in amylase, an enzyme that can break down starch into the much smaller sugar molecules yeast use […] View of Squam Lake at the summit of Mt. Fayal from one of the hiking trails at the Squam Lake Natural Science Center. Image: Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. George Harvey Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is not quite a simple wildlife or nature preserve. It is accredited as by […]
The author’s son enjoys their zero energy pool. Courtesy photo. David Green Great news! Making money by cutting your carbon footprint to zero is a new reality. I own a large house built in the 1970s. I’ve already cut its energy bills and carbon footprint to zero, making a 15% return on […] In March 2019, South African youths protest for action against climate change outside Parliament in Cape Town. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks, www.groundup.org.za. Dr. Alan K. Betts On Friday, March 15, images and video flowed in from around the world, Australia, the Pacific, Asia, Europe and Africa, as more than a million students in 120 countries […] Cold nights and warm days bring in maple sugaring season in Vermont. Many operations today use tubing, but there are still a few sap buckets around that find their way back to the old maples year after year. Painting courtesy of local artist, Peter Huntoon. This 2009 painting, “Sap Rising,” is just one from […] Green New Deal presented by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey. Photo: Senate Democrats, Wikimedia Commons. George Harvey For all the talk about the Green New Deal (GND), I suspect that the number of people who really understand it is not large. To start with, it is […] Wallace Smith Broecker. Image: Wikipedia George Harvey Wallace Smith Broecker, the man some people have called the “grandfather of modern climate science,” died on February 18, 2019. He was 87 years old and had been suffering from heart disease for decades. He worked despite his illness, and he addressed other […] Moonrise over the Cranston Fire. CAL FIRE photo. George Harvey This year, some impressive developments have started to become clear. In some ways the most impressive of these has been the continued decline in the costs of electricity from renewable resources. Two reports on the “levelized” cost of energy (LCOE) that came out in […] |
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