Using satellites to produce energy could eliminate the need for other power sources but how do you get the energy back to earth? Beam it.
This idea has been around for a while but it could have profound impacts that aren’t well understood. I find these kinds of stories fascinating and I think they relate […]
Continue Reading →Nevada’s energy chief wants to take Federal Lands and hand them over to energy companies.
Jim Groth, an appointee of Governor Jim Gibbons, published a declaration which calls for turning the State of Nevada into an energy colony and he doesn’t think it should be subject to National Environmental Policy Act requirements.
“The greatest […]
Continue Reading →PG and E to install 500 megawatts of solar that doesn’t require transmission lines-
Finally, doing solar electricity the right way. It’s called “distributed power generation” as opposed to centralized generation. The solar cells will go on the vast rooftops of malls, and office complexes (or adjacent to them) in California.
After spending over 20 […]
Continue Reading →A group of environmentalists says renewable energy goal shouldn’t come with destruction of native plant, animal life
In the Ivanpah Solar site lies on public lands in the center of very important desert tortoise habitat so the company proposes to move those tortoise to a new area before construction begins. This is a strategy that […]
Continue Reading →Could the use of “brownfields” reduce the conflicts over the placement of these land-expansive uses?
Contamination transformation. Contaminated sites being used to house wind farms, solar arrays and geothermal power plants. Mother Nature Network. By Jessica A. Knoblauch
It appears there is a lot of land in this category and many are near existing […]
Continue Reading →BrightSource Energy drops project in marvelous desert valley with bighorn sheep-
Disputed Solar Energy Project in California Desert Is Dropped. By Elisabeth Rosenthal. New York Times.
This had been a great Mohave Desert controversy, prompting Senator Feinstein to propose the area as a national monument instead. BrightSource says they are now looking for new […]
Continue Reading →Strong Environmental Laws Used to Promote Fair Paying Jobs, Social Justice
Another proposed energy development on the Mojave Desert prompts criticism from environmentalists concerned about its impact to imperiled wildlife and the landscape. But what’s particularly interesting about this story is that labor groups have finally caught on to the significant leverage that environmental laws […]
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