Archive for alternative energy

Garbett Homes is building something, new, modern and green in Utah’s Daybreak community.

While spec home are just that, spec homes and typically built en masse in communities where everything looks the same, it is always refreshing to see when someone breaks the mold and does something a little differently now and then. Garbett Homes is doing just that in Utah and I love the change. In the [...]

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The Pickens Plan – What to think of it?

Ever since the much advertised Pickens Plan was announced I have kept myself from jumping on the Pickens Bandwagon. I decided that I had many reasons to distrust an oil billionaire when they suddenly start to care for the environment, so I have stood back and watched. I joined his Facebook fan page, follow him [...]

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Everything Old IS New Again. Hydrogen powered cars.

Perhaps I will make this a weekly feature. It has been a while since my last EOINA post, but I think there is enough out there to make it a weekly post. With the recent news in Hydrogen advances and the potential for Hydrogen cars becoming a “new” reality it is interesting to see this [...]

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Solar Guide at Low Impact Living

Low Impact Living has done it again with a post on Solar Energy and a guide to the different technologies available. Solar is a complicated field with all the technology that is out there and this post can answer a lot of the basic questions, so check it out. The solar topics covered include solar [...]

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Al Gore's Speech – All 27 minutes on YouTube

I have managed to keep all opinions to myself on Al Gore’s speech and for the most part I will continue to do so. I do think his plan is a little ambitious and I don’t necessarily like the way he lives, but the message is good and it needed to be said. We have [...]

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Look to the past and the movies for alternative energy ideas!

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal and Tree Hugger for some video clips and a great story on alternative energy ideas seen in the movies. Remember the Methane from Pig Poop in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? Check out the Teaser click below and click the links above for the rest over at Treehugger or WSJ.

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Everything Old IS New Again! Ideas on Solar Energy from the October 1934 Issue of Popular Science.

It is funny how there are no new ideas. Just good old ideas that were left by the wayside. In October of 1934 Popular Science published this article on Solar Energy and the future that it would hold for us. Why does it seem today that we are just getting to the level of information [...]

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Take down that ivy and let GROW fill the space with power from the sun and the wind!

I came across thison the web yesterday and I have fallen in love with it as a gardener, environmentalist and lover of the modern ascetic! So I emailed them and asked if I could blog about it and they said yes! Read on to learn more and please visit their website. The product is GROW [...]

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A taste of why we need clean energy in Utah.

I stumbled upon this blog today when doing a search for photos of the dreaded inversion here in Salt Lake City and think it is very worthwhile to post a link on my blog. If you want to understand my passion for environmental change take a look at this blog. You will see exactly what [...]

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Have you ever seen a wind turbine fail?

All I can so to the video below is wow! Turbines have a governor to keep them revolving at a slow pace during high winds. This one obviously failed. I can only imagine the damage something like this could cause in a large scale wind farm. By the way I am not posting this to [...]

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