Alternative Energy News Archives
Sunday 12th of February, 2006
Small turbines could blow back into fashion across the US ★
Winona Daily News, appx. 1177 wordsFocusing on Winona County, Minnesota, this article discusses small wind projects - generally defined as turbines under 100 kilowatts
- in the United States. It outlines the experiences of one particular case and finishes by stating that Despite difficulties, residential-sized turbine sales are up
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Dependence on oil needs to be cut, says panel ★
Xinhua, appx. 370 wordsChina aims to raise the ratio of renewable energy in total consumption to 13 per cent by 2020, up from the current 7 per cent.
This as the govenment looks to set up a long term energy plan that will include nuclear, wind and solar energy so that its dependence on coal and oil could be cut
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Bugs used to gin up ethanol ★
The Desert Sun, appx. 716 wordsA look at cellulosic ethanol, which is the practise of using microbes to convert wood, corn stalks and other plant waste into sugars which is then made into ethanol.
From the article: Using microbes may even solve a growing dilemma over the current ethanol manufacturing process, which relies almost exclusively on corn kernels and yielded only 4 billion gallons of ethanol last year (compared to the 140 billion gallons of gasoline used in the U.S.)
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