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Feds Surge Forward on Solar Projects in the Southwest
By Michael Ames - Politics DailyIn the West, fighting the federal Bureau of Land Management is a time-honored tradition. But as today's agency focuses on renewable solar energy projects, the BLM is looking more friend than foe to recession-stricken southern Nevada. Ever since the Energy Policy Act of 2005 set the tangible goal of 10,000 megawatts of non-hydropower renewable energy by 2015, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior and the BLM have been working in tandem to facilitate large, utility-scale solar projects in the desert Southwest. The BLM, whose land conservation policies made it a constant ...
Green Screen: Inside the World's Smallest Solar-Powered Movie Theater
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(Dec. 8) -- Lights, camera ... environmental action? You might say it's an inconvenient truth, but the movie industry is anything but green. With their supercold ACs and flashy marquees, movie theaters require a great deal of energy. Except for England's Sol Cinema. The tiny mobile movie theater -- dubbed the world's smallest solar-powered cinema by its creators -- runs only on energy it harnesses from the sun. ...
Green Religion: Houses of Worship Power Up With New Energies
By Candace Adorka - Politics DailySolar panels on churches? It's all part of a burgeoning environmental movement rooted in religious belief. Many groups and congregations of all faiths are embracing weatherization, recycling, and other green projects to save money and also fulfill faith-based obligations. Click play below for a video report on how this religion-environment intersection manifests itself and what it could mean for the future. ...
Israel Unleashes Gold Rush for Solar Power
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JERUSALEM (Nov. 27) -- The race is on to tap into a potential $20 billion solar energy bonanza in Israel's southern wilderness that could transform the nation into the first in the world to power its electric grids through renewable energy. The starting gun sounded Sunday with the signing of a historic agreement between the Israel Electric Corp. and a solar energy producer based on Kibbutz Ketura, a tiny collective farm in the barren Arava desert on the Israel-Jordan border. For years, Israel has been exporting its cutting-edge solar technology for use abroad, but it has never been applied at ...
Opinion: White House Goes Solar; What About the Rest of Us?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- The commitment from the White House to go solar by the spring of 2011 is a significant statement that is fueling conversation around a much larger problem. Beyond the soon-to-be-installed solar panels at the White House -- which will heat water and provide electricity to the executive mansion -- lies a planet of aging commercial buildings. These buildings could form the vanguard of a sustainable, greener way of life if their owners took similar incremental approaches. The HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and ...
White House to Get Solar Panels Above Obamas' Living Quarters
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyHere comes the sun: The most famous house in America is going solar -- again. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the White House is getting solar panels atop the first family's living quarters to heat water and provide some electricity. The cost of the project is not clear, but Chu said the panels should be installed by next spring, the Associated Press reported. Way back in the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter had a $35,000 solar water-heating system for West Wing offices. And President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, put in a solar system to power a maintenance building and ...
Obama Offers Funds for Solar Projects, Vows Not to Back Down in Jobs Fight
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyVowing that he "won't back down" in the struggle to boost the economic recovery, President Obama announced Saturday the award of nearly $2 billion in recovery act funds to two companies involved in job-creating solar energy projects. Obama, in his weekly address, called for an "all-hands-on-deck effort" to keep digging out from a recession that is still shedding jobs -- 125,000 last month, driven by the layoffs of temporary government Census workers. The private sector produced 83,000 jobs in June and Obama clearly want to build on that. The "conditional commitments" of recovery money are ...
You Say Moon, I Say Giant Space-Based Solar Plant
By Dave Thier - AOL News(June 4) -- The moon is pretty, sure, but what good is it really? Aside from providing sundry tides and a rather inconveniently located low-gravity golf course, it just kind of sits there. A Japanese company called the Shimizu Corp. has a thought to change that. It's developed a plan to turn the moon into a giant solar power plant that could power all of us down here on Earth. ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images A Japanese firm has proposed a scheme to build a ring of solar panels around the moon that we on Earth could harness for energy. Who would do the building? Robots. The plan is to use ...
Obama Solyndra Solar Plant Visit Clouded By Controversy
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyA dark cloud has settled over the President's trip to sunny Northern California today, and it has everything to do with his photo-op to promote jobs purportedly saved and created by the Recovery act at solar panel production company Solyndra. President Obama toured the Solyndra plant in Freemont, Calif. and gave an address before the press and state officials, including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, outlining his vision for a thriving U.S. alternative energy sector buoyed by government funding. "The promise of clean energy isn't just an article of faith," Obama said, "It's not ...
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