Lorna Li's Renewable Energy News Feed

Grow, Canada: Sustainable Biofuel From the Great White North

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:45:00 -0700

We fill up at what's called the first gas station to sell gas blended with cellulosic ethanol.

Generating Usable Energy, Just by Driving

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:46:00 -0700

A British supermarket chain harvests renewable energy from a most unusual place.

The Lightning Planets

Larry O'Hanlon — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:27:00 -0800

The Scoop: No matter what planet you're on, lighting is about storms, and about ice and rain -- even if it's not necessarily water rain.If you could see Jupiter's magnetic field, it would be the size of the full moon in the sky---the biggest object in the solar system (Saturn actually passed through Jupiter's...

Solar Power Costs 50% Lower than Last Year

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:43:00 -0800

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10 Views of Earth from the Moon, Mars and Beyond [Slide Show]

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0800

In 1990 the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1, careening across the solar system on its way to becoming the most distant human-made object in space, took a glimpse back at the planet it had left 13 years earlier. Six billion kilometers away, Earth was barely distinguishable against the backdrop of space--a "pale blue dot," as astronomer Carl Sagan would famously dub it. [More]

3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:08:00 -0800

NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft captured a three-dimensional look at a solar tsunami, proving that the incredibly tall, fast and powerful waves are not just shadows or optical illusions.

World Changing Ideas: 20 Ways to Build a Cleaner, Healthier, Smarter World (preview)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0800

What would happen if solar panels were free? What if it were possible to know everything about the world--not the Internet, but the living, physical world--in real time? What if doctors could forecast a disease years before it strikes? This is the promise of the World Changing Idea: a vision so simple yet so ambitious that its full impact is impossible to predict. Scientific American’s editorial and advisory boards have chosen projects in five general categories--Energy, Transportation, Environment, Electronics and Robotics, and Health and Medicine--that highlight the power of science and technology to improve the world. Some are in use now; others are emerging from the lab. But all of them show that innovation is the most promising elixir for what ails us. --The Editors

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Turkey Grease Spared Untimely End

Alyssa Danigelis — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:20:35 -0800

Leftovers. Even the word makes me feel full. But in Gilbert, Arizona, Thanksgiving leftovers are being turned into something significantly better than heartburn. For the next week or so, the Gilbert-based company AZ BioDiesel will be collecting waste oil from ...