United Technologies Corporation Power, a Connecticut based company, reported that it will supply 110 PureCycle geothermal power systems to a Utah-based company. This is in addition to the 90 that were ordered one year ago.
The 200 systems total will have capability to generate 40 to 45 megawatts per hour of renewable electric power. The geothermal [...]

Former President Bill Clinton was in coal country and highlighted the role clean coal can play in the stabilization of the economy. “Clean coal can turn this country around,” Clinton said. “We can’t walk away from coal and its importance to our future in America.”
He went on, “We need to focus our attention on clean [...]

The storing of CO2 gases in an underground gas reservoir is being questioned by the National Generations Forum. John Boshier says, “With 80 per cent of Australia’s generation from coal, that means we have to find carbon capture and storage sites for most of that,”
“That’s 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide at the moment, rising [...]

Engineer and inventor, Alfonz Viszolay, has been working with algae-based fuel production for the last few decades. Most recently he has deployed a prototype that will use CO2 emissions from a brewery operation to accelerate the growth of algae. The prototype will be used by Santa Fe Brewing Co.
(Source: New Mexico Business Weekly)

Toyota’s 1/X weighs in at a mere 926 lbs and is made primarily from bio-plastics. The fuel efficiency is twice that of the Prius, due to the fact that it weighs much less and only carries 4 gallons of fuel. That four gallons will drive over 600 miles.
It is currently in the concept stage, but [...]

Dominion Energy has plans for a 300MW Prairie Fork wind farm in central Illinois. The farm will feature 150-200 turbines across 25,000 acres in the Illinois counties of Christian and Montgomery 25 miles southeast of Springfield.
The project will raise Dominion’s renewable power generation capacity to nearly 3200MW in the Midwest. The project will begin in [...]

The British government warned prospective bidders for British Energy that they would not accept the rise of a monopoly in the country’s pursuit of a new generation of nuclear reactors. This move is an indication that the British government will not accept the bid of a single bidder.
British Energy plants generate 20% of the UK’s [...]

Natural gas storage fell last week and is 1.8 percent below the five-year average for this time of year. The Energy Department said the natural gas inventories held in underground storage fell by 14 billion cubic feet. These were the expectations of analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
(Source: Forbes)