12:57 pm in cooking, solar, solar power, solar thermal power by TreeHugger
Images credit Solare Bruecke
One of the inconveniences of solar cooking is that it is, well,
inconvenient to have to go outside when you would rather be in your kitchen, doing other things while the pot is cooking. Kris de Decker of
No-Tech magazine shows a very clever design from
Solare Brücke, which was founded in 1992 " to contribute to balancing global inequalities and to promote the dissemintation of renrewable energies....
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12:27 pm in alternative energy, Business & Politics, california, conservation, renewable energy, solar power by TreeHugger

Bound to rile people up so keep your knee-jerk in check:
Mercury News reports on another example of the needs of balancing the equally pressing (and interlinked) needs of
expanding renewable energy projecting and conservation. The Santa Clara Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, and a group of local residents are suing to block construction of a 399 MW solar power plant on 3,200 acres in the Panoche Valley in California. Those opposed say the project w...
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9:41 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, economics, poverty, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom, wind energy by TreeHugger
Image credit: Larry Page, used under Creative Commons license.
When I posted an interview with
wind energy pioneer Dale Vince, one
Facebook commenter took issue with my references to his "hippie dropout" past, and the fact that he is now on Britain's rich list. The idea that we should be impressed by how his "...
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8:47 am in alternative energy, economics, renewable energy, solar, solar power, united kingdom by TreeHugger

Want solar panels but don't want to pay for them? Feed-in tariffs have already enabled
free solar for schools programs in the UK, and in the US folks are enjoying
solar for no money down thanks to innovative leasing schemes. Now Business Green reports a similar scheme is
offering at least UK£30m (about US$45m) of funding for free solar panels. (Some ...
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