http://energy-revolutions.com/news leading the way in highly efficent green building Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:00:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are excerpts from an MIT article about a very promissing new energy storage technology that could provide solutions at a utility scale to address the intermitent nature of some renewable energy sources. ### From MIT: Professor Donald Sadoway’s research in energy storage could help speed the development of renewable energy. By: David L. ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/liquid-battery-providing-large-scale-energy-storage-solution/ Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/transition-to-a-world-without-oil/ Transpartisan Leadership Conference Retreats June 2006 -- A private retreat on long term national energy security and climate change among leaders and experts as divergent as Vice President Al Gore and Fred Smith, President, Competitive Enterprise Institute. http://energy-revolutions.com/news/what-values-unite-us-as-americans/ In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame. --- 'It would take mother earth 500 years to produce the 30 billion barrels of oil we consume in one year' ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/the-landscape-of-oil-through-the-camera-of-edward-burtysky/ MIT: An engine of energy innovation — By: Timothy Heidel G and Melanie Kenderdine, MITEI DOE makes awards for transformative energy technologies Question: What do liquid-metal batteries, water-splitting catalysts, wafers from molten silicon, nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitors, and plant cell wall-degrading enzymes have in common? Answer: These novel clean energy technologies were recently deemed to be ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/us-department-of-energy-funds-mit-related-technologies/ After attending the International Solar Energy Conference this last week, I have to say the Solar Industry has not only matured but is growing at a wonderful rate. With over 400 vendors and almost 30,000 people it was a resounding success for all concerned. It was so great to see ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/solar-power-international-2009/ The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced the Open PV Mapping Project. This project is a community driven database of Photovoltaic installations in the US from 1998 to 2009. The goal is to organize and distribute knowledge of the location, size, cost and date for all of the US from all ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/pv-mapping-project-announced-by-nrel/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://energy-revolutions.com/news/a-wish-for-elmar-and-lisa/ Abraham - as translated by Esther Hicks - recently gave the definitive explanation of what they mean when they talk about alignment with Source Energy. At the end of the workshop, after spending a long segment with a workshop participant who was struggling with circumstances that seemed overwhelming, Abraham gave perhaps ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/i-love-being-in-the-vortex-esther-hicks/ I have long talked about the connection between optimism and how we create our reality. How our beliefs craft our feelings and how our feelings create our reality. This interesting inverview of Paul Hawken by Wordchanging.com talks directly to how this way of thinking is being utilized in green investing, social ... http://energy-revolutions.com/news/optimistic-and-social-investing-paul-hawken/