North Dakota Wind Beats Saskatchewan Coal
2. How about neighbour North Dakota?Coal 4185 MWGas 248 MWWind 1759 MWYou could REPLACE either Coal or Gas in #skpoli with ND's #wind — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) December 13, 2016…
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Scotland Generated Enough Renewable Energy to Power Itself
This past weekend Scotland generated enough electricity from wind turbines to meet all its power demands. A day of strong winds and low demand combined to make this the first…
Canada 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030?
Read this, and think of Energy East pipeline Brad Wall is pushing hard for. Most of the globe’s coal, natural gas and oil investments will ultimately be affected by the…
Canada Falling Behind in Renewable Energy Because It’s Never The Time For Wall
Wall said. “Our principle here … is that we do no further harm to an economy that already has its hands full.” Canada is dropping behind its major trading partners…
Solar and Wind Continue to Succeed, Coal Keeps Failing
Coal continues its downward trend to obsolescence thanks to the rise of installed solar and wind capacity. In many places around the world coal is more expensive than renewable energy…
Using Giant Floating Turbines in the Future
Last year we looked at a company testing floating wind turbines in Alaska and how they want to use these turbines in remote locations. The testing seems to be going…
Globe and Mail: More power to the Big Three, less choice to Canadians
The new Rogers/Mobilicity deal will mean less choice and therefore higher prices. Article by Christine Dobby for The Globe and Mail While Mobilicity has finally found a buyer – selling…
The Globe and Mail: Wind Mobile brings cell service to Toronto subways
Great news for subway commuters users in Toronto, and yet another reason to escape the high prices and rampant abuse of the Big Three as new options become viable for…
Community-Owned Green Businesses Seeing Great Growth
Community-Owned sustainable energy companies aren’t new, but they are successful! One of the reasons Germany’s push to a sustainable energy grid has worked is that local community own and operate…
Visualizing Energy Generated from Wind
Renewable energy debates can suffer obfuscation through abstraction and disingenuous allegations like renewable is limited in it’s generation times. For example, wind power is often argued to be useless because…
Floating Wind Turbine in Alaska
In Alaska they are trying something rather cool – a wind turbine that floats in the air. The turbine will be tethered to the ground and will be a test…
Politics, Hockey, Fall Sitting at the BC Legislature and Local Elections-Game on!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are moving into autumn, our glorious climate change driven summer is wrapping up even though our confused tomato plants refuse to stop providing even more ripe…
Marine Life Drawn to Offshore Wind Farms
Renewable and sustainable energy is pretty great on its own. Now there’s one more reason to support using wind as a energy source because when the wind turbines are placed…
There’s something in the wind
There are a few previous posts which were automated with IFTTT from the iPad. There isn’t quite enough precision or interaction with those. I can’t set a new title, and…
Climate Change is Here Now
Richard Hughes-Political as hell! Climate change is happening and has been happening for some considerable time. The Climate Deniers have gone to great lengths attempting to convince us that it…
Build Your Own Wind Turbine
Off the gird living just got a little easier thanks to inventor Daniel Connell who has put instructions on how to build a wind turbine for $30 online. It’s not…
Inflatable Wind Turbines For Remote Areas
This wind turbine which is designed to float in the air at a high altitude is meant to provide a small amount of power. The idea behind it is to…
Wind Becomes Largest Source of Energy in Spain
Spain makes use of a plethora of energy sources and they are leaders in Europe when it comes to utilizing solar and wind energy. Energy policy is always under debate…
China’s Wind Turbine Industry Booming
For years China has been trying to improve its sustainable energy production but to do so Chinese companies had to rely on patents and techniques from the rest of the…