The following interesting graphic comes from 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), a company that helps consumers pool together to get discounts on solar panel installation. The graph extrapolates the growth of solar power if its use were increasing at the rate of Facebook’s growth. Currently, solar power grows 60% each year, according to 1BOG. [...]
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Infographic: What if solar power grew as fast as Facebook?
August 21st, 2010 
Justin Manger Harnessing Solar Energy for Fuel
August 17th, 2010 Eric Wilson The sun’s energy powers just about everything. Sometimes it does so more directly, as in the conversion of radiant energy to electricity in photovoltaic panels, and others less directly, in the case of plant material that has morphed in petroleum and natural gas found in the earth’s crust. In addition, the sun causes the wind [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Department of Energy, Energy, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy 
View CommentsIs There an Eco-conscious Alternative to Air Travel?
August 11th, 2010 Eric Wilson As summer travel plans to visit friends and family wind down, the question arises if there is a reasonable alternative to long distance air travel. An earlier post, which hailed the success of high speed rail between Madrid and Barcelona, reiterates the limited scope of train travel as an alternative to flying. For trips of [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Japan, Transportation Tags: Bio-fuels, High Speed Rail, Solar Energy, Trains, Water View CommentsHydrogen Clean Energy Project at Emory University
August 8th, 2010 Eric Wilson In the summer edition of Emory Magazine, there was an intriguing article about chemists using solar power to turn “hydrogen into clean fuel.” One of the major issues with using hydrogen as a fuel source, is that it needs to be separated from water, which requires energy. However, since the first law of thermodynamics (also [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomimicry, David Orr, Emory, Hydrogen Economy, Solar Energy, Thermodynamics View CommentsWorld’s Greenest Home? Even Kubla Khan Would be Jealous
July 21st, 2010 Justin Manger From the Atlantic comes a story about a stately pleasure dome of the greenest kind. A venture capitalist and a management consultant in Silicon Valley have decided to see how far they could push the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ratings by building a home that should earn the most LEED points ever [...]
