(NYT) — Todd Dore never worries whether there will be room at the two-spaceelectric-car-charging station in the downtown garage where he juices up his converted VW Beetle after commuting from the western suburbs. Mr. Dore, 43, is one of about only 100 motorists in the Chicago area who own cars that run solely on electricity, […]
Lithium-Ion batteries are the most viable means of powering things like electric cars.
(Chicago Sun Times) — At a former industrial site on Chicago‘s South Side, more than 32,000 solar panels slowly tilt every few minutes, following the sun as it moves across the sky. Operated by Exelon Corp., the 40 acres of panels in West Pullman is the nation’s largest urban solar plant, generating 10 megawatts of clean power and […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — A South Georgia pecan farmer is about to nearly double the amount of solar power in Georgia Power’s energy mix. The energy will come from a 200-kilowatt solar farm built on an acre of Trey Pippin’s property southwest of Albany. Built by ESA Renewables of Lake Mary, Fla., the solar system […]
The President's decision to holdup offshore drilling and the approval of a windmill farm off the coast of Cape Cod delighted many opponents of fossil fuels.