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Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm in the US to win regulatory approval, has found a buyer for half of the electricity it will generate, when completed. Investor-owned energy company National Grid announced a power purchase agreement with Cape Wind Associates, the project’s developers, on Friday. The deal, which came less than ten days after
Did you know that 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to energy? Hugh Whalan, CEO of Energy in Common (EIC), refers to these people as energy impoverished and has made it his mission to eradicate 15 million cases of energy poverty in the next 5 years by making green energy loans powered by individual contributions. “2.4
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Energy In Common Launches Kiva-like Platform to Combat Energy Poverty
An obsessive Google Earther pinpoints every country on the globe’s tallest building.
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New Global Map of Every Country’s Tallest Building
An alternative oil dispersant that proved less toxic and more effective in early testing still has not made its way into the field to help contain the Gulf disaster.
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Better Oil Dispersant Tests Delayed in Gulf
by Agence France-Presse The dome en route to the oil spill.Photo: U.S. Coast GuardVENICE, Louisiana — Workers lowered a huge dome over an oil leak gushing from a sunken rig deep in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as energy giant BP raced to contain a slick moving perilously closer to the U.S. coast. The unprecedented operation to drop the 100-ton chamber some 5,000 feet below the surface to cap the leak was expected to be completed within hours Friday. “They are in the process of lowering it now,” BP spokesman John Curry told AFP about the operation seen as the best hope to stave off the biggest U.S. environmental disaster since the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. He described a “complex operation” involving maintaining the dome in a correct position with the ship, balancing the weight, placing the structure on the seabed and transferring control of the containment system from one ship to another. Officials said the concrete and steel structure was moving at a rate of about 500 feet per hour.