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Join The Future with Clean Energy Works Oregon
Join the Future with Clean Energy Works Oregon. A new nonprofit that helps energize your homes by making energy efficiency upgrades affordable and easy. Who are we? Clean Energy Works Oregon (CEWO) is a non-profit program established to reduce energy waste by encouraging homeowners to take direct action. CEWO is transforming the old into new, restoring our communities and reviving our economy. Our plan is to transform at least 6000 homes in only three years. CEWO keeps it simple. We’re transforming energy-wasting homes into comfortable, energy efficient living spaces that keep cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Here’s how: Homeowners have energy efficiency improvements within their reach. The CEWO program offers no-money-down, easy financing and simple qualifications. Plus, it can offset future energy costs, particularly as they rise. This is made possible because of devoted partnerships between public, private and non-profit interests including our utility companies, local lenders, local governments, Energy Trust of Oregon, the Oregon Dept. of Energy and the US Dept. of Energy. CEWO is a model for how we can all work together successfully for a common cause. CEWO equips homeowners with expert guidance from start to finish. An Energy Advisor is provided to walk each homeowner through the entire process, examining their needs with a thorough energy assessment, assisting with paperwork and coordinating certified contractors. This all-in-one solution keeps it …
Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future
This event was held at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley. “Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales: Symbols and Expectations for a Clean Energy Future” Wednesday 7 Mar 2012 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Ozzie Zehner STSC Visiting Scholar The seductive tales of wind turbines, solar cells, and biofuels foster the impression that with a few technical upgrades, we might just sustain our current energy trajectories without consequence. Media and political coverage lull us into dreams of a clean energy future juxtaposed against a tumultuous past characterized by evil oil companies and the associated energy woes they propagated. Like most fairy tales, this productivist parable contains a tiny bit of truth. And a whole lot of fantasy. This talk does not expose a scandal or cover-up in the traditional sense, but rather explores a particular alignment of interests and priorities that presents equally provocative questions to the environmental community. Solar cells shine brightly within the idealism of textbooks and the glossy pages of environmental magazines, but real-world experiences reveal a scattered collection of side effects and limitations that rarely mature into attractive realities. This talk is based on Ozzie’s forthcoming book, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism (University of Nebraska Press, June 2012). This event sponsored by STSC
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The future of our planet is in the hands of the green energy
Article by Cameron Rachev
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Nature has always helped us and protected us but now it’s our turn. We should compensate it for all the damages we have caused and try to preserve it for the future generations and for our own children.
There are three main sources of green energy: the sun, the wind and the biomass. The water is also considered a green energy source in some countries. The wind power is easily converted into electricity thanks to the technological achievements and the modern wind turbines. The advantages of the wind as a source for that type of energy are that it cannot cause pollution and there is no chance to run out of “wind supplies”. Actually, the wind could be deservedly defined as a clean and endless energy source. The sun is considered to be the most powerful source of energy and that’s why it’s very suitable for the production of green energy.
This type of energy is the future substitute of the almost exhausted fossil- fuel energy. It is the only known up to now substitute which has the power the stop the climate change and to protect our world from fatal consequences.
The green energy is considered to be environmentally friendly as its production is not connected with emissions of greenhouse gases which have such a negative influence on the climate. The price of the green energy is not very low now but this is absolutely normal, having in mind that it’s not very popular yet and the spread of this type of energy is limited. However, the green energy still plays a very insignificant role and hasn’t gained a leading place on the market.
We cannot rely only on the green energy to compensate all the harms we have caused to nature so far. If we really want to help to the environment, this could not happen only by purchasing this particular type of energy but we will also have to change some aspects of our life and try to lead a more environmentally friendly way of life. For example, we may try to use our cars rarely, only when we have to pass long distances. It’s much better both for the environment and for our health to ride a bike or just to walk. The other possibility is to use public transport, which is not the most convenient way of travelling, but decreases seriously the pollution.
Every person can contribute to the prevention of nature without losing money if he or she just wants to. The green energy is undoubtedly the energy of the future and its greatest advantage compared to the ordinary energy is the inexhaustibility of its resources. However, that type of energy still has a long way to pass until it turns into the most popular and widely spread energy. The green energy is our last chance to try to preserve the nature and thus to ensure a green future for our children. All of us must take part in the protection of the world.
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Use Wind Power Energy for having a Secured Future
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Do you think 5,500 years are less?? Any guesses about what can be so ancient?? No?? I am talking about wind power energy which you people might think latest form of innovations. The real fact is wind power is being used from more than past 5 centuries for propelling sailboats or sailing ships. When it comes to talking about windmills it simply goes beyond out of calculations because windmills are being used from 7th century AD for irrigation purpose.Hearing this, you might be thinking, so ancient but so modern we were in the past ages. Don’t you think so that we have lagged behind technically?? In spite of the unlimited benefits we can have using wind energy, we use it scarcely. Don’t you know the benefits?? Allow me to introduce you to it.
It is the least expensive among all the other forms of energies.Wind turbines can generate 5 cents/ KWh, which can be compared to the oil burning power supplies or new coal power plants.With the improvement of technologies we can expect that it will reduce its costs more.If the wind turbines can be placed in such a position where the maintenance charges of it is less, wind power can be consumed free.The most important thing is that it supplies clean energy. It generates no carbon dioxide, or no such harmful products. This means, it has no side-effects on the environment.This energy is renewable. Like, coals or other such substances, wind is not going to finish with time.With so many advantages, we are still lagging behind when it comes to using it to its full extent. Only 1% of world’s total energy is produced by using Wind Power Energy.We can expect that with time, this mode of energy production will be used in much wider ranges.Now, if we come to transportation sectors, we can see ship industries are using wind power energy instead of fuel energies. In ships flettner rotor is used which convert wind energy into forward thrust, that pulls the big ships in the middle of the oceans with terrific speed. The benefits come from this is no pollution or no tensions of fuel loading. When shipping is one of the principal industries of the world on which 75% of world’s economy stands, here the usage of Wind Power shows us the way to deal with winds in a better way. So, why not sticking to it when it is completely safe and easy to use technology??About the Author
Robert brown who is a freelancer writes articles on Wind Power Energy and Wind Power. For more information on them he suggests to visit website http://www.windagain.com/
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Norway & Scotland key to Europe’s green energy future
Scotland and Norway will both play a key role in Europe’s increasingly integrated energy market, building on the two nations’ long-established expertise in the hydro-electricity and offshore oil & gas sectors.
