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Drastically increase your fuel economy

How can you increase your fuel economy without buying a new hybrid? Through driving techniques known as eco-driving or hypermiling. Even without futuristic technologies, drivers can achieve eye-popping...

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Waste not, …

Do you generate several tons of trash at your home a day? Are you tired of paying to have it hauled away? Do you want to use it to power your home, WITHOUT burning it? You may be in luck, as IST Energy...

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It’s raining radio waves

PG&E have agreed to purchase power from a startup, Solaren, that will gather the power in a space based solar farm and then beam it back to Earth as radio waves which will them be turned into...

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Suntech Power CEO predicts solar market will take off in 2010; will have grid...

Solar power for the home fans can take some comfort in Solar Power Holding’s CEO’s belief that President Obama’s policies to subsidize solar power will cause a ramp up in solar power installations...

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For the city dwellers

Majid Rashidi, a mechanical engineer, has devised a way to increase wind turbine efficiency by putting them on water towers mounted on top of city buildings. His tests show that wind turbines mounted...

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Home solar panels with little or no money down

(Welcome to those visiting from All Things Eco #63. Subscribe to this site.) Do you want to power your home with solar generated electricity, but don’t want to (or can’t) make the initial large...

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Home power problems, military solutions

It’s 2012, in the middle of the night. The batteries that your solar panels charged up during the day are on the blink, and power in your home is fading fast, so you might miss tonight’s episode of I...

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Solar panel costs continue to decrease

The cost of a solar panel installation continues to fall, which is good news for homeowners looking to install a home solar power system. The cost decrease is due to an increase in solar panel...

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Not in Germany’s backyard

Germany was supposed to be the unquestioned leader in green energy by now (they still lead most countries). But they’re not as far along in technologies such as wind power as some would have expected....

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Inferior solar panels in the United States

Foreign markets get more reliable solar panels than the United States, according to testing lab TÜV Rheinland PTL. Failure rates for panels for use in the U.S. are higher than those outside the county....

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