The US Energy Information Administration has a fascinating information repository online, from which we excerpted this table: State Renewable Electricity Profiles. Note that the ranking data are for reporting year 2006 and that hydroelectric power is the predominant renewable energy source among the listed states. Due to the severe protracted drought of 2007 in the US Southeast, it is reasonable to assume that Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas were, in 2007, p...

The International Forum Design (iFdesign) invites all members of the bicycle industry and interested students to submit entries to the international EUROBIKE AWARD 2008 by 25 July 2008. The Eurobike Awards aim to give consumers direction in a large market by pointing to touchstones of outstanding design. EUROBIKE is gaining momentum as fuel prices rise. This year's brochure quotes reknowned futurologist Matthias Horx: "The first evolutionary winner of the climate change is -- the bicycle." Horx goes further to predict that the "boom of the bicycle in the general public will create a diverse service and lifestyle culture all revolving around the pedals."...

This is amazing. A wind farm by T. Boone Pickens at a scale that dwarfs all others. We have to wonder: which has more "green jobs" impact, GE selling its appliance division or fulfilling an order for the world's largest wind farm?

Mesa Power LLP, a company created by legendary energy executive T. Boone Pickens, has placed an order with General Electric to purchase 667 wind turbines capable of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 300,000 average U.S. homes. The agreement represents the first phase of the four-phase Pampa Wind Project that will become the world's largest wind energy project, with...

Image: Detail of photoillustration by Viktor Koen for Portfolio Condo Sales Drop Drives Conversion of Star Architect Towers to Greenhouses "A weak real estate market leaves hundreds of glass condo towers designed by star architects unsold and unpopulated." The futuristic vision in which these empty condos serve as greenhouses is just one of the potential solutions to a looming food crisis imagined and humorously illustrated by a slide show titled "In Case of Emergency" in Conde Nast's Portfolio....

Ending a climactic battle over the fate of Santa Monica's now eponymous ficus trees that pitted the city against Treesavers, a local environmental group, 23 trees were felled last Friday as part of a multimillion-dollar street renovation project, reports the LAT's F...

Image courtesy of melancholic optimist via flickr Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has always been a tough proposition: Scientists and environmentalists worry about the potential leakage from storage sites and its additional fuel requirements, while energy utilities complain about the excessive costs and risks associated with the technology. A new technology developed by scientists at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, could help...

IBM has leveraged their computer-chip cooling know-how into a highly effective solar concentrator design. Bench-scale testing of the design (as pictured) shows an order of magnitude increase in solar power output from a unit cell. Other designers have worked out CPVs with similar concentrating lenses, typically paired with a tracking device. The cooling part of IBMs' design is the cool part: something no other designer has access to, presumably.

The trick lies in IBM’s ability to cool the tiny solar cell. Concentrating the equivalent of 2000 suns on such a small area generates enough heat to melt stainless steel, something the resear...