Energy Systems
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World Wind Power Poised to Bounce Back after Slowing in 2013
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute At the end of 2013, the wind farms installed in more than 85…
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Ram Pumps
People are always fascinated by ram pumps. I think partly because they achieve the seemingly impossible task of pumping water…
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Lessons From the Rust Belt with Geoff Lawton
Geoff Lawton looks at the rust belt collapse of an entire industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the lost opportunity that…
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Home-Scale Conversion of Plastics to Oil
by Lesley White A highly-promising development out of Japan: a corporation called Blest has developed a home-scale plastic to oil…
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Cooking Steaks with Sunlight in South Africa (video)
Using coal and kerosene to fuel a stove is both costly and hazardous. Social entrepreneur Crosby Menzies hopes it will…
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Solar Water Bottle Bulbs
Alfredo Moser with his solar water bottle bulbs Introduction Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his electric bulb…
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Creating the Alternative: Inside Look into the SolTrekker
by Mo Lohre and Will Redwine Sorry for the hiatus, but would you believe we came across a few bumps…
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Seeds of Permaculture – Tropical Permaculture (video)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
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Generation Gap: Wind Opens Big Lead over Nuclear in China
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind…
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A Bicycle-Powered Water Pump (Malawi, Africa)
Sitting quietly at Butterfly, on the shores of Lake Malawi, it always struck me as odd when I would hear…
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Rough, Ready, But Very Real – a November 2013 Update on the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’ Site)
Project from above, featuring a garbage-accumulating fence edge Well, you would be hard pressed to find a tougher block of…
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2013 To Be Record Year for Offshore Wind
by J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute Offshore wind power installations are on track to hit a seventh consecutive annual…
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