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A wind-propelled car, dubbed the team DWFTTW – Directly Downwind, Faster Than The Wind – created a new category of vehicles, a record, while moving at speeds almost three times higher than the wind itself that drives it. The feat was achieved on the weekend of July 4, Independence Day in the United States, in the desert of El Mirage, Calif., [...]

Google announced late on Tuesday it signed an agreement for 20 years to purchase wind power from Nextar Energy Resources II Story County plant in the state of Iowa, to supply some of their data centers. The Official Google Blog has announced a further step towards its goal of sustainability announced in 2007. The publication said that goal would be [...]

Wind energy is one of the most popular of alternative energies because it is seen as renewable and, thus, sustainable. On the surface, energy generated from the wind seems to help delay the impending climate crisis. After all, records show that wind energy ‘saves the emission of nearly 68,000 tons of carbon dioxide, 600 tons of sulphur dioxide, and [...]

Bill Gates is in touch with reality. He refuses to ride the global warming alarmist propaganda bandwagon. Bradford Plumer in The New Republic mentions the recent TED Conference in Long Beach where Gates ‘told the audience that climate change was the world’s most vexing problem, but that it would take “energy miracles” for the world to zero out [...]

‘To better understand Afghan public opinion on the conflict, and how the country can move towards a stable democracy,’ there are ‘underlying causes of insecurity in Afghanistan’ that have to be discussed and resolved. Based on the recent survey conducted by The Asia Foundation on Afghan people,’ insecurity is identified as the biggest problem [...]

For the first time in U.S. history, a nationwide fixed cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be in place. ‘The American Clean Energy and Security Act calls for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.’ Thus, all energy producers in the United States by 2020 should be sourcing at least 15 percent [...]

We have always wanted to have easy methods to harness the two most sustainable sources of energy, sun and the wind. Both solar panels and wind turbines are not ideal first options because of the huge costs involved. But all those worries may be set aside all thanks to a new techonology, Ravi. A name for sun in the Hindu religion, Ravi is actually a [...]