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IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Seema Singh |
Pumping Punjab Dry Cheap energy endangers India's ability to feed itself |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Wired April 21, 2008 Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Harry Goldstein |
Malta's Smart Grid Solution The world's first multiutility grid should save water and money |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Dexter Roberts |
Drought in China Hits the Energy Sector Hydroelectric power shortages mount in southwestern China. |
Scientific American December 2006 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Wired September 24, 2007 Roberts et al. |
4 Technologies on the Brink Wind energy, geothermal power, solar power, and synthetic fuel are the focus of scientists seeking alternative energy sources. |
Wired July 2001 Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Food Engineering November 4, 2007 Wayne Labs |
Sustaining Your Energy Action Plan An energy action plan should start with a thorough analysis of the manufacturing facilities WAGES, that is, the five utilities water, air, gas, electricity and steam. |
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 |
Geotimes August 2005 David Pimentel |
Weighing in on Renewable Energy Efficiency With our supply of fossil fuels running out, the author tells us about alternative energy sources: biomass, biodiesel, hydroelectric, wind, hydrogen and photovoltaics. He ends with comments on the European lifestyle. |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up |
Geotimes February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York... |
Wired March 23, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
Fast Company June 2008 |
Hope for Hydrogen Letters to the Editor: Does Iceland Have the Answer to Our Energy Problems? |
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 |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost? |
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. |