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450-MW Biglow Canyon Wind Farm Completed Oregon has really committed to wind power development.  The 450-MW Biglow Canyon wind farm in northern Oregon has been completed and more large projects are in the works. The $1 billion wind farm was built in three phases over the past two and a half years.  It is comprised of 217 turbines and covers 25,000 acres in Sherman County. The energy produced by the wind farm will be able to power 125,000 homes. The wind farm is owned by Portland General..
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Philadelphia Subway Feeding Braking Energy to Grid When a subway train pulls into a station, it produces two things:  a loud screeching sound and lots of kinetic energy.  The Philadelphia subway is putting that second thing to good use by capturing the kinetic energy produced when trains put on the brakes. A 1.5-MW regenerative braking system will be installed along the Market-Frankford line, which has the highest ridership in the city.  A huge battery will capture the kinetic energy that will th..
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Senate Legislation Proposes $1.5 Billion for Energy Storage Tax Credits Three U.S. senators have introduced a bill to promote electric grid energy storage projects. The Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2010 ("STORAGE 2010 Act") would provide tax credits worth as much as $1.5 billion for grid storage projects. In addition to providing credits for utility scale projects, the bill also has provisions for businesses and homeowners who want to have on-site energy storage, whether or not they also ..
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Plant-Mimicking Solar Cells Can Self-Assemble Scientists at MIT have created a breakthrough solution to one of the biggest problems facing solar cells by mimicking the world's best harvesters of solar energy:  plants. Over time, sunlight breaks down the materials in solar cells, leading to a gradual degradation of devices aiming to harvest the energy in that light.  Plants don't have this problem because the chloroplasts in plant cells constantly breakdown and reassemble their light-capturin..
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Snakebot - a Robot that Maneuvers Like a Snake We are always intrigued by biomimetic technologies that find answers based in imitating naturally developed systems. Mechanical locomotion that imitates animal locomotion is particularly interesting. So we liked finding this video of a robotic snake being which is developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University. The motion of the snake-bot would allow it to maneuver through tighter spaces than either people or other mechanisms can easily mov..
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Port of Long Beach Retrofitting Old Tugboats After debuting the world's first hybrid tugboat in 2009, the Port of Long Beach is partnering again with Foss Maritime Company to retrofit an existing tugboat with hybrid technology. The ship called the Campbell Foss is a conventional dolphin tugboat assisting ships in the San Pedro Bay. It will be fitted with motor generators, batteries and control systems by Foss at one of their shipyards.  The retrofit should cut 1,340 tons of CO2 emissions an..
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Where's My Air Car!? It sounds like a good idea: Use electricity to compress air, stuff it in a tank and use the power expelled by the air's release to power a vehicle. Seems like a good idea, certainly a lot easier to understand than nano-constructed cathodes on a lithium ion cell. And several companies have been actively attempting to build cars powered by conpressed air for quite some time. We at EcoGeek have been excited about them. The two biggest of these compa..
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Color Filter Could Boost LCD Efficiency by 400% Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a color filter that could boost the efficiency of LCDs, the power hog of all your gadgets, by more than 400 percent, and no, I didn't add an extra zero there. The researchers made an optical film that colors and polarizes the light that passes through an LCD, taking the place of the several layers of optical devices that typically serve the same function in an LCD.  Those multiple layers give..
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Lithium-Ion Battery Prices Set to Drop It looks like supply and demand is working out in the consumers' favor when it comes to lithium-ion batteries.  Production has been ramping up for the batteries as more electric cars go into production and that has led to an oversupply that may just keep piling up.  Analysts are predicting a price drop of between 19 and 25 percent by the end of the year -- a slash that could also spell cheaper electric cars in the very near future. Battery makers..
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Coast Guard Implementing Net Zero Housing The U.S. Coast Guard has set a goal of a net zero carbon footprint for housing at their Southwest Harbor Base in Maine.  The base is using solar panels, solar hot water heaters and now a wind turbine for their energy needs.  Efficiency-boosting retrofits will also be done, including new electrical systems and better insulation. The newly-installed wind turbine sits atop a 70-foot tower and provides power to a duplex housing unit located on the ba..
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