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The Motley Fool
December 7, 2006
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GE Aims to Make Waves Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination for GE.   |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Ocean Power Creates a Ripple Wave power -- like wind power -- will also become a credible and reliable source of energy in the future, but it will take at least another decade for the technology to mature and scale to a level where investors can rely on not just its potential for stock appreciation but on actual profits. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2010 |
How a Hurricane Wavemaker Works (With Video!) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University's Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2003
John Teresko |
GE's Growing Bet -- Wind Power With a new prototype turbine rated at 3.6 megawatts, GE Wind Energy prepares for growth in 'green' power. |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow. |
Wired
May 2002
Alex Markels |
Sea Change The next wave of renewable power is bigger, cheaper, and multi-megawatts stronger than ever before. And it's about to go online in the North Sea... |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Anthonia Akitunde |
European Offshore Wind Conference Europe leads in offshore wind power, with more than 1,000 turbines pumping 3,294 megawatts into the grid. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2008
Adam Aston |
The War Over Offshore Wind Is Almost Over It's no longer if, but when, where, and how many wind farms will go up along the U.S. coast. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Why Texans See Green Gold in Renewable Resources As America's petroleum heartland, Texas isn't known for being environmentally sensitive. But its oil-boom, energy savvy attitude could put the state in a surprising position -- leading the charge to alternative energy in the U.S. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Caroline Winter |
Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Willie D. Jones |
I've Got the Power Backyard wind turbines turn energy consumers into suppliers. Tremendous demand and a federal production tax credit for makers of large turbines make utility-scale wind a good business to be in right now for GE. |
Wired
February 2007
John Geoghegan |
Inherit the Wind The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being re-purposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States. |
Outside
April 2007
Megan Michelson |
Swell Power The next wave of clean energy will be breaking near you |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Taps Oceans for Power As the Navy dives headlong into the challenge of meeting its alternative energy goals within the next decade, technologists are striving to help the service harness solar power trapped in ocean waters to generate electricity for its shore-side bases |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2007
Adam Aston |
Catching The Wind In A Bottle A group of Midwest utilities is building a plant that will store excess wind power underground. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Peter Fairley |
Europe Replaces Old Wind Farms More power from fewer, bigger turbines |
Inc.
October 1, 2009
Nicole Marie Richardson |
Innovation: A New Rooftop Wind Turbine The WindTronics turbine can generate energy at low speeds. |
Fast Company
September 2013
Jon Gertner |
FloDesign's Jet-Engine Turbine Will Change The Way You Think About Wind Power If FloDesign's business plan falls short in the next few years, the company's fate would be all the more bitter, since the potential seems so large. People love the idea of a radical new clean-energy technology. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Robert F. Keane |
Energy Is in the Air In spite of Washington's inaction, wind farms could go a long way toward reducing carbon emissions |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
A Fresh Breeze at Siemens A new CEO and a new wind power order bode well for the company should have Siemens investors breathing a little easier. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Robert F. Keane |
Alternative Energy Twisting in the Wind The Pickens plan was not the only one to cut back on ambitious alternative energy plans. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Willie D. Jones |
Ocean Power Catches a Wave Europe and New Zealand to install commercial generators, but U.S. slow to respond. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Laura Cohn |
Wind Power Has A Head Of Steam A big North Sea project highlights the upside of turbine technology in England. |
BusinessWeek
February 18, 2010
Mark Scott |
Now, an Alternative to Alternative Energy Big money is starting to flow into biomass, geothermal, and marine wave power projects. |
National Defense
May 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Offshore Wind: An Untapped Energy Source Wind is now the world's fastest growing energy source. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Wind Beneath Your Portfolio New wind-farm projects could jump-start an offshore industry. |
BusinessWeek
March 6, 2006
Adam Aston |
Here Comes Lunar Power Hydropower, the granddaddy of green energy, is making a comeback. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2011
G. David Frye |
Who's Profiting From Wind Power? In the U.S., GE is blowing away the competition. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid A recent proposal to link the eastern, western and Texas grids together to create a national, energy-friendly supergrid has sparked the interest of utilities and energy insiders, but Texas doesn't want to participate. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Deprez & Boyle |
Wal-Mart's Wind Power Gripe in Massachusetts Cape Wind's green power will cost it more. It's trying to avoid the rate increase while trumpeting its green energy initiatives |
Mother Jones
Jul/Aug 2002
Alex Markels |
Prevailing Winds For decades, Big Energy blew off renewable energy as insignificant. Now the industry's biggest players are racing to build wind farms -- and cash in on the latest energy boom. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2009
Toby Shute |
The Wind Is at These Companies' Backs We're going to need a lot of turbines. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Megan Sever |
Super Waves Sink Ships For centuries, sailors have reported giant walls of water rising up out of nowhere, and for the first time, satellite observations are confirming the existence of such rogue waves. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
Popular Mechanics
December 11, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Can Offshore Grids Solve Our Wind Power Woes? The European Commission met last month to discuss connecting their growing supply of offshore wind power with a grid spanning the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2000
Bob Freudenberger |
Replacing Your Fuel Pump If there's anything over 60,000 miles on the odometer, but more commonly 100,000 plus, there's a good chance that the cause of this distressing no-start condition is an electric fuel pump that's no longer capable of forcing fuel forward with sufficient pressure... |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth. |
Outside
June 2009
Joe Mozingo |
Slab Waves Slab waves bring on the next frontier of surfing. |
Popular Mechanics
October 7, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
5 Technologies Missing From the Clean Energy Bill Micro hydroelectric power... Waste to energy... Water efficiency... Geothermal energy... Solid oxide fuel cells... |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2010
Surojit Chatterjee |
Google Joins Consortium to Create Wind Energy "Superhighway" Internet search engine giant Google plans to create a "superhighway for clean energy" by joining a consortium to develop an underwater power cable network. |
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2009
Matt Molnar |
10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design Ingenious designs, plus where to find them and how they work. |
Popular Mechanics
May 22, 2008
Mike Allen |
7 More Fuel-Sipping Myths Debunked: Mechanic's Diary The real fear when gas prices get high may not be what you pay at the pump as the snake oil everyone's trying to sell outside of it. |
Fast Company
Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion. |
Fast Company
February 2009
Melanie Warner |
Can Wind Power a Rural Renaissance? In some small towns, wind power is spawning new jobs, middle-class affluence, and carbon-free energy independence. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 6, 2010
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back? The United States is rapidly falling behind other developed countries such as Denmark, Germany, Japan, and China, all of which use government policy to develop their renewables industries. |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Ben Stewart |
Jay Leno's Green Garage Gets Wind Power As part of an ongoing project to make his garage more sustainable, the Tonight Show host is getting set to install a state-of-the-art turbine on top of the shop. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Winner: Solving the Oil Equation A team of geophysicists and computer scientists closes in on the ultimate seismic-imaging code for finding oil. |
