Alternative Energy Restrictions

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Many business owners as well as home owners are trying to get a proposal approved that will limit the amount of restrictions on how they are able to install and use solar panels; as well as other forms of alternative energy.

There is much debate over this issue and much of that revolves around Senate Bill 401 allowing outside companies to install, have and even maintain alternative energy systems. This would be possible as long as customers agreed to contracts over the long-term that requires them to pay for the electricity that is created by the system. This would include biomass, municipal solid waste, hydropower and landfill gas. The bill would also remove limits on how much alternative energy each individual would be able to use.

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Solar Power Investment By Google

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

While I’m sure many of you have heard that Google has been extremely generous when it comes to helping promote solar energy; they have donated quite a bit of money recently, some of you may not have heard about their most recent donation. The most recent investment was in December of 2011 and it was in the amount of about $94 million.

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How Green Are You?

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

With so many people going out of their way to live ‘green’ lives, it got me thinking. How ‘green’ am I? While I realized I’m much ‘greener’ than I thought, there are many things about my life that I would like to change so I can help keep our planet Earth healthy. I have yet to get my license, so I save a lot of gas there. I walk everywhere I go, unless I’m going with someone else so not only am I getting a ton of exercise, but I’m also carpooling; which I feel really great about. You’d be surprised how much simply riding with someone else or taking the bus does for the environment. All of that pollution is no good for the environment. I’ve always been really into recycling, even before most people were. I think it’s important to take the time to separate your items and save the things that you can use again. I also go and get coffee often, so I decided to get a plastic coffee cup instead of wasting all the plastic at the local coffee shop. You’d be surprised how many people don’t do this. It upsets me how much trash gets thrown away there, when it could be recycled and used again. Instead of drinking bottled water, I choose to use my own cups because there’s no point in wasting products. I’m also big on keeping my receipts when I’m out and about and taking them home so I can recycle them because if you leave them with the cashier, they’re going to end up throwing them in the trash. While those are only a few things, I feel good about what I’m doing. I would love to have an energy friendly home one day, but that’s not something we can exactly afford right now. Hopefully in the future, we can change that. Using solar power would be really nice! Now it’s your turn. How ‘green’ are you? What kinds of things do you do that help the environment? Are there things you currently are doing that harm the environment, which you’d like to change?

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Renewable Energy Lost Support of Republicans

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Support for federal funding of renewable energy sources is at an all-time low since 2006. The Washington Post-Pew Research Center recently took a poll, which shows an increase in Republicans opposing initiatives for future funding.

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Importance of Recycling Computer Equipment

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Did you know that your PC or Mac can be recycled? I’m sure you did. Why do we need this? Are our old home computers so harmful? Yes they are. This is so called electronic waste. Many developed countries provide special programs for recycling electronic waste. The main thing here is that computer devices contain various toxins and carcinogens which can waste our environment. They should be recycled to protect us and nature as well as to utilize usable materials repeatedly. I would like to take Canada as an example of long-term existing program of computer and electronic recycling.

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How Can I Recycle My Cell Phone Mobile

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Young cell phone industry is one more ecology problem for our planet. The progress of this branch of industry is very fast and sometimes we even can’t notice when this or that new product appeared. Of course everyone wants to buy the newest model to get the last novelties that cell phone producers offer. As a result used mobile phones go to dumps. Manufacturers cannot also help the situation, because consumers demand new functional and design miracles. Undoubtedly, this is not the main point. Competition among manufacturers has great impact on the speed of new models development. And no one can refuse the improvement of technologies, because it is equal to failure.

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Tulsa Technology Center’s Natural Gas Goals

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

The Tulsa Technology Center has renovated their automotive training facility that is going to put its focus on alternative fuel technology more than ever. Over 350 people attended a dedication ceremony on Friday, and energy advocate T. Boone Pickens was the guest of honor. Many of the guests showed their support for the project by arriving on a Tulsa Transit that was completely fueled by compressed natural gas.

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Tips to Save Fuel When Driving

Monday, September 12th, 2011

High fuel prices make us think of many things nowadays. Fuel saving is one of those things. You should know that there are some rules, which may help you save fuel and money, if you follow them driving your car. First of all maintain your vehicle in a proper way. You should make regular maintenance checks and repair your vehicle to evade useless waste of fuel.

Here are the tips that do not require usage of any extra means:

Driving style is very important. You should diminish the number of accelerations and breaking, smoothly push a gas pedal and choose an appropriate gear.

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Use Electric Scooter And Car To Save Energy

Friday, August 26th, 2011

In order to find all possible ways that an ordinary person as me and you may use to protect nature we should choose electric vehicles as cars and scooters. Equally with energy efficient homes and other appliances that help us every day protect nature from global warming and ecological crisis, electric vehicles also help to save energy that is so crucial nowadays. Let us look through electric scooters and cars that becomes more and more popular among different people, who would like to protect nature all over the world.

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Low Cost Wind Turbines.

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Wind energy as any other source of energy today is very expensive. You need to have really lots of money to build a wind farm. Some people try to make solar panels by themselves to diminish their expenses on electricity and some of them are even get cheap wind turbines for that purpose. But is it possible today to find cheap wind turbines? I think it is. Perhaps, the cheapest variant is to make it manually for your home or country cottage. So, let’s look through some theoretic variants of that.

To manufacture a wind turbines you need:

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