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Archive for the ‘Green Utilities’ Category

March 21st, 2008

Double, Double, Cauldron Bubble: Mitsubishi Solar Cell Production To Double

The industry would soon be receiving more and more solar cells. This is because, according to the newspaper Nikkei, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation would be doubling the current amount of solar cells that they produce. At present Mitsubishi Electric is the sixth-largest producer of solar cells in the world. The newspaper did continue to disclose that […]

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March 11th, 2008

Australia’s Solar Airport

Australia is moving quite quickly when it comes to solar power. We have been learning of more and more solar stations and solar farms in that country. And one of the newest to reach our ears is the solar plant that may soon be sprouting in the Adelaide Airport.
The solar plant is already being built […]

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March 8th, 2008

Students Building Solar House

$100,000 grant. With that amount, a group of students from the Rice University are building themselves a house that is going to get its power from the sun. The grant was given by the United States Department of Energy and the students are going to build themselves a solar house by 2009.
The grant given was […]

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March 4th, 2008

Saying Goodbye To Plastic Bags

After a day of shopping, we all would usually go home carrying the new stuff we purchased in plastic bags. So just imagine, if you were out for a day and you bought one item in 10 stores, you are most probably going home carrying ten plastic bags.
Well, things might be changing though in Australia […]

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February 20th, 2008

Solar Power Helps Water Crops

Here in the Philippines, agriculture and farming have been two major sources of income for citizens. Try going to the provinces and you would see vast pieces of land used for farming, planting rice (a staple food), vegetables, and other crops. These are watered through irrigation systems.
In Nigeria, how they water their crops is highly […]

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February 15th, 2008

LA Starts Wind Farm Project

Right on a mountainside. That is where the new wind farm in Los Angeles is going to be built. And around a week back, the city’s officials had already broken ground. When finished, estimates have it that the wind farm would be able to give power to 56,000 homes.
Named as the Pine Tree Wind Project, […]

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February 13th, 2008

Holtwood Dam To Go On Expansion

Clean energy is something that we all seem to be strangers to. Well, not exactly strangers in a way that we have no idea what it is. I mean strangers so much so that we know what it is but we never really did care much to take a further look into it.
But clean energy […]

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February 12th, 2008

High School May Get Power From Wind

In Minnesota’s Twin Cities, it seems like the trend of using wind power would be opening up right even to high schools. One school, the East Ridge High School, would soon be availing of the power that the wind provides by 2009.
Officials of the school are looking how they can put in the wind power […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Irish Schools To Get Solar Power

The officials in Northern Ireland are planning a renewable power project and the beneficiaries would be some 19 schools in the area. The project would make use not only of solar power but it would also be taking power from the wind. This is certainly a grand idea for the students would be exposed to […]

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January 19th, 2008

Spain Gets More Wind Turbines

One of Europe’s most prominent countries would be receiving quite a number of wind turbines. Of course, these wind turbines would be used so as to hone the wind’s strength into usable power. Yes, Spain would be the one to get these wind turbines.
And because Spain is in need of wind power turbines, the lucky […]

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