The Wildernerd

Epictetus (via fy-perspectives)

I will always remember when the Doctor was me.

Some anti-wind energy dipshits actually claim wind turbines are “ugly”. No one will ever be able to convince me that this: is uglier than this: Plus, wind doesn’t spill and pollute land and water.

Good work Iowa

Good work Brasil

In developing nations near the equator, the weather comes in extremes — the sun is at its strongest, while rainfall levels are also the highest in the world. At the same time, the same areas are blighted by a lack of electricity and clean drinking water. In order to tackle both of these issues, designers in Mexico have developed the PhotoFlow, a device that harnesses energy from the sun in good weather and collects and filters rainwater in bad weather. READ MORE…

There are 8,844 solar panels on the roof which are expected to generate more electricity than is needed to power the building’s 3,300 lights and two gigantic television screens. Some 1.14 million kWh of electricity a year will be generated – preventing, in the process, 660 tons of carbon dioxide from being discharged into the atmosphere. As for the surplus energy generated during the warm weather, the government of Taiwan intends to sell it.

Buses that are silent, energy efficient, and don’t release exhaust — sounds good, doesn’t it? Just such a bus service is now in development in the Swedish city of Gothenburg — it’s currently set to launch in 2015. The new “ultramodern” bus service will be entirely electric and powered entirely by renewable energy sources.

Scientists in the Netherlands have designed a windmill without rotating blades. EWICON, an acronym for electrostatic wind energy converter, uses particle movement to generate energy. Wind moves electrically charged water droplets across a bipolar field in the steel structure, which creates a current that can be transmitted to a grid. Read more: http://ow.ly/k9v4s

Scientists in the Netherlands have designed a windmill without rotating blades. EWICON, an acronym for electrostatic wind energy converter, uses particle movement to generate energy. Wind moves electrically charged water droplets across a bipolar field in the steel structure, which creates a current that can be transmitted to a grid. Read more: http://ow.ly/k9v4s

Meeting renewable electricity standards requirements is proving to be an affordable way for utilities to add power-generating capacity while reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities | Grist (via diegueno)

Renewables + Storage = Full Grid by 2030: "These results break the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive," said the study’s co-author, Willett Kempton, of the University of Delware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, in a press release. "The key is to get the right combination of electricity sources and storage — which we did by an exhaustive search — and to calculate costs correctly."