The five following Friday Facts come from MoneyMorning.com’s article titled Alternative Energy Forecast: Why Investors Will Finally Start to Profit in 2011 Biomass: It is primarily used in heating and accounts for about 13% of current global energy use (though the total is only 4% in the United States). Hydroelectric power: At the end of [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Renewable Energy Generation
December 31st, 2010 
Eric Wilson Five Friday Facts – Brazilian Edition
December 24th, 2010 Eric Wilson Last week (Sunday December 12th) CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a segment (video below) on Brazil. Here are five facts culled from the piece: 14 percent of the world’s fresh water is in Brazil. Eighty percent of its electricity comes from hydropower. 150 miles off the coast, lie what are believed to be the largest discoveries [...]
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Tags: Bio-fuels, Brazil, Hydroelectricity, Water 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts – Renewable Energy
November 5th, 2010 Eric Wilson As part of the Eco-Libris’ Green Book Campaign (mentioned in last week’s Five Friday Facts) 2nd Green Revolution is reviewing Thriving Beyond Sustainability by Andres Edwards. It’s chock full of potential Five Friday Facts. This set relating to the energy transition that has occurred over the past decade demonstrates the growth of the renewable energy [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Grid, Hydroelectricity, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »U.S. Energy Consumption Dropped in 2008, Renewables Increased
August 8th, 2009 Eric Wilson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, part of the United States’ Department of Energy, announced last month that the total energy consumption in the US decreased during the 2008 calendar year. Measured in quads (representing a quadrillion BTUs – a “British Thermal Unit is a unit of measurement for energy, and is equivalent to about [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Energy, Energy Conservation, Hydroelectricity, Solar Energy, Systems Thinking No Comments »Five Friday Facts
June 19th, 2009 Justin Manger In San Jose, California, three private partners will produce 900,000 gallons of biogas using German technology and 150,000 metric tons of organic waste generated by San Jose residents (source: New York Times). Puget Sound Energy, the electricity provider for the Seattle, Washington region, gets 42% of its total electricity production from hydro-power. New York City [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Battery, Biogas, Carbon Dioxide, Hydroelectricity, New York City 1 Comment »Air Force Academy to Be Energy Independent in Five Years
March 31st, 2009 Eric Wilson The Colorado Springs Gazette and The Denver Post report that the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs will spend $100 million (USD) over the next five years to produce 12-15 megawatts of power annually with the goal of achieving energy independence by 2015. The Academy’s approach represents a great test case for locally [...]
An Argument for Local Renewable Power
March 7th, 2009 admin Ian Bowles, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs for Massachusetts, lays out the case for home-grown power in a New York Times editorial today. With the push for more renewable energy generation and a smart grid by the Obama administration, two main visions of how to deliver the new sources of power are being [...]
