North West Tidal Barrages Could Provide 5% Of UK’s Electricity
| Green Up Your Act: Part 3 7 More Tips to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint 1. Reduce–Buy less things, download music instead of buying the CD, choose products with less packaging, grow your own food, buy less things. 2. Re-Use–re-use old grocery bags, share your old clothes with a cousin, use old sauce jars for storing small items, visit freecycle.com–your junk may be your neighbor’s treasure. 3. Recycle–Paper, plastic, glass, food (compost your raw food scraps for healthier gardens or plants), buy items made from recycled items (I just got over a bad cold, during which time I went through 3 boxes of recycled paper tissues–and I. |
| ‘Smart’ Fridges Stay Cool By Talking To Each Other ‘Smart’ fridges that run on renewable electricity and are capable of negotiating the most energy efficient way to keep food cold have been developed by researchers in Australia. |
| Investing for a Healthier, Wealthier Tomorrow “According to a joint report by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), investing in a renewable energy as the source for electricity in our future will save 10 times the fuel costs of a ‘business as usual’ scenario, saving US$180 billion annually and cutting CO2 emissions in half by 2030.” This is, of course, the recurring theme in most of my posts. Investing in Modern Energy will save money in the long run AND reduce the amount of carbon emissions we create. It is a WIN/WIN scenario! To read the article that the quote above came from, click. |
| North West Tidal Barrages Could Provide 5% Of UK’s Electricity Engineers claim that building estuary barrages in the North West could provide more than 5% of the UK’s electricity. Researchers examined ways to generate electricity from tidal sources of renewable energy in the Eastern Irish Sea. The study showed that four estuary barrages, across the Solway Firth, Morecambe Bay and the Mersey and Dee estuaries, could be capable of meeting approximately half of the North West region’s electricity needs. |
| Press Release from Solar Night Industries 1.2.2008-Solar Night Industries (PINKSHEETS: SLND), a renewable energy company formed to accelerate the adoption of Modern Energy Solutions, introduces the Solar Synapse |