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Iceland?s Abundance of Energy
Categories: Agriculture, Air Polution, Biofuel, Buying Renewables, Economics, Energy Systems, Geothermal Energy, International, Renewable Energy, Waste - Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 11:31Read the full story in E The Environmental Magazine.
“We see Iceland as the world?s laboratory for a decarbonized future,” says Ingibjorg Sólrun Gisladóttir, the country?s foreign minister and former mayor of Reykjavik. Of course, many countries say similar things, but Iceland has a head start, because it?s partly decarbonized already. Some 85 percent of Iceland?s homes are heated with geothermal energy, which also produces 18 percent of the country?s electricity. The rest is emission-free hydroelectric power from the many dams on Iceland?s free-flowing rivers. As much as 72 percent of Iceland?s primary energy is renewable, the highest percentage in the developed world. Coal smoke no longer darkens the skies.
The latest from RenewableEnergyAccess.com
Categories: Alternative Fuels, Biofuels, Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Transportation, Wind Energy - Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 10:42The latest issue of Renewable Energy Weekly is now available. Highlights include:
- 2008 Detroit Auto Show Greener Than Ever
- Study Shows Great Potential of Switchgrass as Biofuel Feedstock
- More Insights into Using Bacteria to Generate Electricity from Waste
- A National Solar PV Incentive Needed
- Investing in Renewable Energy
- The State of Geothermal Energy Technologies: Part 2
- Updates on GE Wind Projects
Water eyed for heating, cooling guv?s mansion
Categories: Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy - Thursday Dec 6, 2007 08:56Read the full story in the Rocky Mountain News.
Engineers will drill into the backyard of the Colorado Governor’s Mansion in two weeks, hoping to find groundwater at a consistent 55 degrees that can be pumped into the house to lower heating and air-conditioning costs.
If the tests find easily accessible water, production will start next spring, and Colorado will be the first state in the nation with a ground-source heating and cooling system in its governor’s residence, said Lance Shepherd, the manager of design and construction programs for the Office of the State Architect.
Cal U dorms conserve energy, money
Categories: Geothermal Energy, Great Lakes Region, Green Building, Schools - Wednesday Nov 28, 2007 08:20Read the full story in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette.
Officials at California University of Pennsylvania decided that renovating its 40-year-old dormitories was too expensive and tore them down to build new residence halls. The buildings will be heated and cooled through geothermal heat pumps.