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What is Energy News?

[tag-tec]Energy news[/tag-tec] is factual news about anything relating to the energy industry. This can range from government policies, oil and gas news, oil rig counts, energy stock prices or even juicy corporate scandals. In this day and age, the average consumer can easily find energy related news and information online, since there are an abundance of websites now dedicated exclusively to serving the industry. Some of these sites are simply re-publishing information found elsewhere, while others are striving to bring in-depth and original headline news to their visitors. Be careful which information you decide to trust. Before you decide to stake your financial future on a sites news reports, be sure the site is at the very least reporting current and factual stories. If the content is being re-printed, be sure and visit the actual source. This way its easy to stay informed and up-to-date with any changes.

Who Needs Energy Information?

People such as investors, business professionals and consumers make up the main energy news seekers. Most consumers have only a general interest in energy related news, and are more likely to be looking for energy relating to them such as natural gas and utilities prices. Investors and business types, rely on energy news for stock information in relation to making decisions which help them to run their day to day business operations.

No matter who you are though, keeping on top on current events in the energy industry, can make you a well informed and knowledgeable individual.

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solar Power 2006CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA The Cruise Car, a solar-powered golf cart that can crank up to 22 miles an hour, was among the devices on display this week at the Solar Power 2006 Conference …

Googleplex to go in for solar powerDaily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India … A Google executive said the company would rely on solar power to supply nearly a third of the electricity consumed by office workers at its roughly one-million …

Enveloping solar power Times Online - Auckland - New Zealand … The school submission described how students’ experience with solar power at a recent camp inspired them to try to introduce it to the school. …

Lagos Plans 20 Solar Power Projects AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA THE Lagos State Government is to embark on construction of 20 additional rural solar energy electrification projects in different parts of the state. …

Tax break for wind, solar power? Salt Lake Tribune - United States

Kaye Scholer Announces watershed Legal Victory for Wind Power … Yahoo! News (press release) - USA … and its conservation director, Peter Galvin ("CBD"), against the wind power operators in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area ("APWRA"). … Another hidden subsidy for wind power The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK MR Dekker and Mr Morton in their letters referred to subsidies for the wind industry. Here is another one that they may not know about. … energy/article/0,2777,DRMN_23914_5062504,00.html">Venture capital group gambles on wind power Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA … Its latest gamble is wind power, specifically Southwest Windpower Inc. of Flagstaff, Ariz., which assembles and installs micro wind turbines. …

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2007 NH Coastal Cleanup, Sept 15
Portsmouth's Blue Ocean Society will again be coordinating this year's New Hampshire Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, September 15.  The NH cleanup is held as part of the International Coastal Cleanup for 2007, in which thousands of volunteers from over 90 countries clean coastal areas in the largest one-day volunteer event of its kind.  In last year's cleanup of over 24 [...]

Jiminy Peak wind turbine comes online
Jiminy Peak, in Hancock Massachusetts, became the first ski resort in North Amercia to produce its own electricity from wind when its 1.5 MW turbine came online earlier this month.  Sited at 2000 feet above sea level, the turbine itself has an overall height of 386 feet, with blades 123 feet long.  The turbine is [...]

UNH starts construction on landfill methane project
Announced late last year, UNH is now set to immediately begin construction on its landfill gas project, the first of its kind for any university in the US.  The landfill gas, collected from wells at the Rochester, NH landfill, will replace the commercial natural gas that UNH currently purchases to run its cogeneration  (electricity and heat) [...]

Portsmouth library awarded Silver LEED certification
According to the Portsmouth Herald, the Portsmouth library officially became the first municipal building in the state to achieve LEED (Leadership in energy and Environmental Design) certification when it was recently awarded a silver-level certification by the US Green Building Council.  The LEED award, anticipated for several months, honors the work of the building's architects and builders, [...]

A historical view on windpower
Earle Rich, blogging over at GraniteGeek, has a very nice post about the first attempt by an electric utility to generate commercial power from the wind, using a windmill located in Putnam, VT.   Constructed in the early 1940's, this windmill produced 1.25 MW, putting it in roughly the same class as the 386-foot-tall, 1.5 MW turbine [...]

ZapRoot

Snippy well produced video full of info about the green energy world.

Check it out.

Here is the rundown on Zaproot from the ViroPop website:

Okay, let’s get this straight. ViroPop is NOT a new virus-flavored soda. And ZapRoot is not a show about bombarding plants with laser beams.

What is ViroPop then? Well, you could think of it as a salad. It’s green, sure, but also cool, fresh, crisp and tasty. And full of surprises. And good for you.

ViroPop is the first network on the Internet to treat the new environmental pop culture with a sense of irreverent fun. Long dreary powerpoint presentations…be gone! This is the happy Green Revolution.

And ZapRoot is ViroPop’s flagship show.

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