We’ve been thumping the drumbeat for a better system to help deploy renewable energy equitably, fairly and at lowest true cost to the public.
We found this great article Federal Tax Credits Handcuff Clean Energy Development from John Farrell at Energy Self Reliant States that explains it all better than we ever could.
It also discusses the iniquity of » Read more..
As 2011 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the year it’s been; review the plans and goals made, missed or kept and what still needs to be done; where we’ve been and where we’re going.
As usual, I don’t have the time to do this justice now, even though my best intentions are to really give the proper thought, consideration and passion to it: these are the reasons people will believe in us, follow us and contribute to us. i will be adding » Read more..
An update and some timely (or is that “timeless”) commentary…
I was pleased to arrive home last night to find it spinning: generating clean, usable, efficient electricity. They got it up and running really quickly.
Judging by my intimate knowledge of how windy it is down here at Point Lookout » Read more..
This article was published today at Long Beach blog Sea By The Citywho are always hot on the trail of local news.
I felt a wider audience was needed, and saw the readership needed some information.
Thanks to Anthony at Sea By The City for helping get the word out.
Part 2
A little daylight shed…
The skies cleared, the fog lifted, and this morning the work of the “windsmiths” was revealed.
Point Lookout Wind Turbine Installed
The 156 foot tall (at maximum blade tip height) “landmark monument to energy independence and environmental stewardship” (as I call it) stood proud. » Read more..
The first of several ongoing parts…
Point Lookout, NY- The future has arrived here in this quiet, seaside hamlet in Long Island’s Nassau County.
That is, in the form of a 100 kilowatt wind turbine, the latest addition at The Town of Hempstead’s Point Lookout Energy Park.
Dawn breaks on a new day for Point Lookout
This falls under their extremely interesting » Read more..
On November 18, 2011 the switch was flipped on at The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF), a joint project between Brookhaven National Lab, BP (British Petroleum) Solar, and MetLife through the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).
Made up of 164,312 solar panels, it is the largest photovoltaic (PV) array in the eastern U.S., rated at 32-megawatts (MW) capacity, with the smallest footprint for a solar array of its output. » Read more..
With no doubt, we are in the energy-climate change era, as discussed in the acllaimed bestseller “Hot, Flat And Crowded” by Thomas L. Friedman. It is obvious that it is being caused by humans burning fuels that power, heat and move our modern world. It is obvious that the answer is switching our energy use to renewable energy as soon and as widespread as possible. But how do we do that?
We have the methods at hand » Read more..
A long standing problem in wind farm siting may have been solved by researchers at cal tech.
According to BBC news, Schools of fish help squeeze more power from wind farms, the study of schools of fish and their “aqua-dynamic” schooling patterns has led researchers to » Read more..
