Electric Vehicle Racing at Pikes Peak
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Home Contact About Jobs EcoGeek.org MAR 31 Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Electric Vehicle Racing at Pikes Peak Written by Philip Proefrock on 31 03 12 An electric vehicle may offer serious competition to conventional racing vehicles in this year's Pikes Peak race . Nobuhiro Monster Tajima is the current champion and the record holder for the fastest time in the race . For the 2012 race , he hopes to extend his title run and set a new time record with an electric vehicle Team Monster has not released many details about their vehicle , but it is known that the vehicle will be an EV with a twin motor system and regenerative brakes The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an ecclectic event , and the race has a number of classes of vehicles , including
Bloomberg: Smoke rises from a chimney behind stacks of coal at a coal fired power station in Belchatow, Poland.
Smoke rises from a chimney behind stacks of coal at a coal fired power station in Belchatow, Poland. Photographer: John Guillemin/Bloomberg
The plunge in European Union carbon permits is putting prices on course for their longest-ever decline and shows no sign of ending as member states wrangle over curbing a glut in the market.
EU allowances for December fell 5.2 percent this year, extending...
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Ready to start gardening this Spring? Wherever you live - in a house with a yard or an apartment with a balcony - you can use these tips to grow some of your own produce.
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Associated Press: The Obama administration and five states announced an agreement Friday to speed up consideration of plans for offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes, which have been delayed by cost concerns and public opposition.
Under the deal, state and federal agencies will craft a blueprint for speeding regulatory review of proposed wind farms without sacrificing environmental and safety standards. The Great Lakes have no offshore wind turbines, although a Cleveland partnership announced plans last year for...
New York Times: Like many people, I`ve been struggling to understand what is going on with the weather. As I flipped on my air conditioner one day in the middle of March to cool down an unbearably hot apartment, I thought, this is just weird. In recent years, we have lived through one weather extreme after another, sometimes whipsawing between them rather quickly.
So, for my recent article on this topic, reported with Joanna Foster, I tried an interesting little exercise.
Climate scientists, like the rest...
SciDev.Net: Earth has only one decade to pull itself back from various environmental 'tipping points' -- points at which the damage becomes irreversible, scientists have said. If it fails to do so, it is likely to witness a series of breakdowns in the systems that sustain people, such as oceans and soil, according to a major meeting on safeguarding the planet's future, the Planet Under Pressure conference (26--29 March). "Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has...
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Vancouver Sun: British Columbians have expressed grave concerns about the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which if approved will carry bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to B.C.’s north coast for export on to Asia.
Oil spills on lands and streams crossed by the pipeline and from tankers navigating our coastal waters could have devastating effects on B.C.’s fragile ecosystems. Those threats are most immediate for first nations whose traditional territories would be traversed by the pipeline.
Yet in our preoccupation...
Forbes: Much of what the United States might have achieved through a visionary energy policy—lower prices, lower carbon emissions, less reliance on dirty coal and foreign oil—is coming to pass as a result of abundant natural gas from hydraulic fracturing, said the recently retired CEO of one of America’s largest energy companies.
“We are backing ourselves into rationality, but it’s only because of this incredible national blessing of cheap natural gas,” said John Rowe, who retired 17 days ago as chairman...
Guardian: On Monday a cabinet minister will attend a significant nuclear announcement: not the opening or building of a new plant, though; the UK's biggest ever contract to demolish one.
It is tempting to portray the event to mark the final closure of Dounreay as symbolic after the announcement on Thursday that the two German energy companies E.ON and RWE were pulling out of one of the country's biggest nuclear building projects, the second such decision in recent months. But are commentators right to suggest...
Voice of America: Over the last half-century, global warming has led to changes in climate extremes such as heat waves, record high temperatures and in many regions, heavy precipitation. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The group, founded by the United Nations in 1988, warns that nations across the globe must take steps to mitigate such disaster.
Extreme weather cut a swath across the world in 2011. For Bill Wing, it began a year ago on New Year’s Day as he...
redOrbit: In order to explain some of the weird weather occurring across the world over the past few years, scientists have begun to research the loss of arctic sea ice. They believe this ice is being lost due to greenhouse gases released by humans.
Odd and sometimes dangerous weather phenomenon has scientists left without answers as to why these things are happening. Last year’s unusually hot summer has led into an unusually mild winter. Recently, spring seems to have sprung a bit early across much of...
Join the Earth Day Network and Wiser Earth in creating One Billion Acts of Green leading up to the Rio+20 summit.
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Yale Environment 360: The story of American energy used to be that we consumed and imported too much, that fossil fuel reserves were finite, and that a technical breakthrough in clean alternatives would save us.
How 20th century. The new narrative of American energy is this: We’ve been using less. A national boom in oil and gas production -- spreading across 12 states, from California to Pennsylvania and North Dakota to Texas -- is showing we have much more than we thought. And the clean energy economy, tiny by comparison...
New York Times: An era has dawned in which humanity`s impact on the earth could prove to be as great as ice ages or meteoric collisions, scientists, government officials and business leaders warned this week at a big environmental conference in London. The world`s approach to tackling environmental problems therefore must change rapidly if disaster is to be avoided, they said.
“We really are urging the world to grasp this moment to make history,” said Lidia Brito, the director of science policy and capacity building...
BBC: There has been a setback to the government's plan to attract investment in new nuclear power stations.
That is after RWE Npower and E.On announced they will not develop new nuclear power projects in the UK.
The two were planning to invest in new plants in Anglesey and Oldbury-on-Severn, near Bristol, under a joint venture called Horizon Nuclear Power.
The government says it is disappointed but there remains "considerable interest" in the project.
The firms blamed problems raising finance...
Guardian: Last year's mild winter helped UK greenhouse gas emissions fall 7% in 2011, as people used less gas to heat their homes.
The fall follows a 3% rise in 2010, the first in almost a decade, which green groups called a "wake-up call" that government policies weren't cutting emissions fast enough to tackle climate change.
The fall in 2011 was in part due to it being the fifth warmest year on UK temperature records, leading to the residential sector showing the largest fall in emissions, of 22% on...
Inter Press Service: Weather events such as extreme temperatures and drought caused global agricultural losses of 11.4 billion dollars in 2011, while 12 million hectares of farmland are lost to land degradation every year, and unsustainable agricultural practices contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases.
These and other data provided by a report released Wednesday in London by leading scientists from 13 countries raise the question of how to curb the environmental crisis, guarantee broad access to quality food,...
Greenbiz: Reading the business pages, you might think that sustainability darlings like Ikea, Siemens, Novo Nordisk, Unilever and Nokia dominate the EU business community. That is by no means the case -- especially in a time of economic downturn.
Right now, big corporations are nervously fighting among themselves over the EU’s climate and energy policy. The most active business organization, Business Europe, is lobbying heavily against higher ambitions, a move that contradicts the conventional picture of...
Guardian: Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heatwaves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of scientists has said.
The greatest danger is in highly populated, poorer regions, but no corner of the globe is immune. The document, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heatwaves, deluges and droughts, and blames man-made climate change,...
New York Times: Fog blankets the coast of central California each summer, hydrating the region’s majestic redwood trees and chilling beachgoers. New research out of the University of California, Santa Cruz shows that the moist air also carries methylmercury, an especially toxic form of the heavy metal mercury.
“Is it dangerous to breathe the fog? Of course not - we’re talking very low levels,” said Peter Weiss-Penzias, a chemist and the lead author of the study, published in the latest issue of the journal Geophysical...
New York Times: In 1974, Dr. Sherwood Rowland, a young research scientist, warned the world that chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals found in aerosol sprays and refrigerators, were damaging the earth’s ozone layer. It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments, business leaders, scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty, the Montreal Protocol, in 1987.
Dr. Rowland died this month at age 84. Many of the articles...
At least 215 million women want to prevent or delay pregnancy but are not using effective contraception. This “unmet need” for family planning may be due to poor reproductive health information, social pressures, or insufficient access to contraceptive options. In Africa, more than 1 in 4 women have unmet need -- by far the highest rate of any region.
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: Wednesday , March 21, 2012 Renewable Energy Law News Week of March 19 Photo via Flickr Vermont House votes to pursue renewable energy MONTPELIER With summer temperatures in Vermont on the first day of spring , House members gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill to address climate change . We see its evidence everywhere and we see it at an ever increasing rate , Rep . Margaret Cheney said on the House floor while the thermometer reached 75 degrees outside . The Norwich Democrat described a bill that sets a goal that Vermont get 75 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2032. It calls for a renewable portfolio standard , in which the state’s utilities would be required to get increasing amounts of the power they sell from green sources over the next 20 years . The
The SnagFilms documentary On Coal River follows the lives of men, women, and children in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia who battle a large coal company.
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Cheap Chinese solar panels are great for installers, but present a challenge for US solar manufacturers. Is it time to put a tariff on panels from China in order to level the playing field?
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Last Tuesday, March 13, Congress failed to act to renew the 1603 Treasury Grant program, and that’ not only a loss for the entire solar industry, but other renewables too.
Some may see 1603 as a program that only benefits large scale solar, but 1603 indirectly benefits the residential solar community, as well as solar thermal, and all other
: Friday , March 16, 2012 Renewable Energy Law News Week of March 12 Photo via Flickr Senate Fails to Pass Energy Tax Credit Extensions The Senate failed to pass an amendment that would have extended a set of expiring tax credits for wind energy , biofuels , energy efficient homes and other tax . breaks The wind energy production tax credit and the other tax breaks are set to expire at the end of the year . The amendment , introduced by Sen . Michael Bennet , D-Colo . needed 60 votes to pass in the Senate , but failed by a vote of 49-49 on Tuesday . However , a new bill was introduced Thursday in an attempt to extend the tax credit . again I’m disappointed that the wind energy PTC extension did not move forward today , 8221 Bennet said in a statement Tuesday . I have visited with Colorado
Wind energy developers installed a record 41,000 megawatts of electricity-generating capacity in 2011, bringing the world total to 238,000 megawatts. With more than 80 countries now harnessing the wind, there is enough installed wind power capacity worldwide to meet the residential electricity needs of 380 million people at the European level of consumption.
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. Home About Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Econbrowser Editors' Corner Energy , Security , Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Mar 14, 2012 with 21 responses Global Warming Primer Natural Gas Vehicles R-Squared Energy TV Ep . 15 : Tags climate change CNG global warming greenhouse gases natural gas R-Squared Energy TV Tweet In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV I answer questions about compressed natural gas CNG vehicles , and talk a little bit about global warming. Some of the topics discussed : are The environmental footprint of a CNG vehicle versus an electric vehicle operating on natural gas-derived electricity The prospects of CNG vehicles in the next 10 years Why I generally do not write much about global warming The basis of future climate
A new report released today by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research shows that Minnesota can meet 100% of its electricity needs with in-state wind and solar power, and (with ample energy efficiency investments) at a comparable cost to its existing electricity supply.
The notion that solar and wind energy cannot be the mainstay o
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A recent check of the California Solar Initiative’ database reveals that there are currently 2,244 rebate-eligible solar PV installers in California. And on the solar hot water side? Only 374!
That lack of competition for solar water heating services in a huge state like California is startling. Despite the recent — and generous &mdas
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: Home About Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Econbrowser Editors' Corner Energy , Security , Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Mar 5, 2012 with 32 responses Study : Eliminating Coal-Fired Power is Worth 0.2 Degrees in 100 Years : Tags climate change coal coal power global warming joe romm natural gas nuclear solar wind Tweet Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy  A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called â Greenhouse gases , climate change and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity â concludes that replacement of all of the world’s currently operating coal-fired power plants which produce about 40 of the world’s electricity and replacing them with renewable energy would have an impact of 0.2 degrees