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Entries Tagged as 'Alternate Energy'

Helotes commits to 100% windtricity from CPS Energy

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Energy, Going Green, Wind power

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Helotes, Texas is a small town just outside of San Antonio and has a population of about 5,000 people. The city government has done a lot to keep big business out of town and allow small business owners [...]

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Peel and stick solar panels help bring installation cost down.

May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Alternate Energy, GreenTech, Solar power

The amount of active innovation in the green energy sector is amazing to me. This product is making its way all over the web and blogosphere, but I thought it worth a discussion here. Lumeta (a subsidiary of the construction firm DRI) has developed a peel and stick solution for installation of [...]

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Konarka uses inkjets to print solar film

May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

In 2005, Popular Mechanics gave Konarka Technologies an award for being one of the years top innovators. Konarka Technologies was honored by PM for its flexible solar film called Power Plastic. At that time they were manufacturing Power Plastic through proprietary means of printing. In March 2008 though they announced that they [...]

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Jay Leno’s green garage

May 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, GreenTech, Solar power, Transportation

Jay Leno’s green renovation of his garage has come a long way. He’s added some new parts washers, replaced some aerosol cans and big solar array. Leno even talks about adding more solar panels even though he generates more power then the garage needs to operate during the day.
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Norway using green living to rehabilitate prisoners

April 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

I hope you take the time to watch the video above it is a great look into a successful program going on in Norway to reconnect inmates with life and respect. The prison governor is a very intelligent man and realized if you give the prisoners a good way to earn respect and treat [...]

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