Archive for the 'Alternative Energy' Category

With fears that our oil dollars are simply funding our enemies and making us poorer, there are widespread calls for “hybrid” gas and electric cars.
The question remains… if everybody got one, is there enough power generation capacity in the US to power them?
This study reports that there is.
It assumes several things…that you commute the “average” [...]

For most people, working at home is part of an overall efficiency strategy which includes slashing expenses to the bone… including ordinary electric bills if possible.
Here’s some simple techniques one high school teacher used to reduce his electric consumption so much (67%) he was audited by the electric company who thought he’d tampered with his [...]

A Home Based Business is harnessing solar power into Ice. 
Fred Schuld, owner of The Ice Factory in Landing, NJ has installed 85 solar panels on the roof of his home and business, which will run the ice makers that provided his livelihood for the past 19 years. His company provides cubed ice for retail sales, dry [...]

The recent discoveries of massive oil reserves in the US Gulf are not hampering voices wanting to cash in on the change to the “hydrogen” economy.
Because South Carolina labs studied hydrogen during the Cold War, the state hopes this preponderance of brain talent will make it the “center of the universe” for switching the US [...]