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Global Energy: from Potential to Kinetic

Submitted by TimJFowler on Wed, 2010/03/03 - 6:45pm
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Global New Energy Summit 2010

What: Global New Energy Summit 2010
When: Sunday, March 21 through Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Where: Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino (15 miles north of Santa Fe)

Power From the Sun ... and Donuts!

Submitted by TimJFowler on Fri, 2009/11/20 - 3:03pm
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Powdered donuts could be key to affordable, renewable power!

Smarter Than Your Average Building

Submitted by TimJFowler on Wed, 2009/10/07 - 5:39pm
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Professor Andrea Mammoli and solar collectors on the UNM Mechanical Engineering Building

The phrase 'Smart Grid' has been thrown around quite a lot recently. Unfortunately, it isn't clear to many of us what a 'Smart Grid' actually is. Some folks at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque have built and are testing one of the first pieces of the future smart grid - a smart building. The Mechanical Engineering Building at UNM has a newly refurbished solar-thermal energy array that provides 90% of the building's heating needs and 35% of its cooling.

How Can You Stop The Sun From Shining?

Submitted by TimJFowler on Thu, 2009/08/20 - 4:52pm
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NREL Solar Photovoltaic Resource Map

For a state with so much solar potential, New Mexico has realized very little actual solar power. PNM (the major electrical utility in NM) currently has about 1.4 megawatts of solar PV capacity, almost all of which is owned by individual customers. PNM owns two solar facilities, a 25kW solar PV system located in Algodones and a 5kW system in Aztec. With so little solar photovoltaic power in place, PNM's most recent proposal to limit privately-owned, grid-tied solar PV systems has the Renewable Energy Industry Association of New Mexico (REIA-NM) concerned.

Good Book, Bad Cover

Submitted by TimJFowler on Fri, 2009/04/10 - 3:10pm
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Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air, book cover

Don't judge a book by it's cover, especially when the cover is this bad. Fortunately the book 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' by David JC MacKay is a much better book than its wrapping suggests. Professor McKay makes a case for, of all things, a fact and number-based energy policy. The idea that rational decision-making should drive energy policy shouldn't be a radical idea, but strangely enough it is.

Whither Comes the Energy to Run the World?

Submitted by TimJFowler on Mon, 2009/03/02 - 3:21pm
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Global New Energy Summit

What: Global New Energy Summit
When: March 22 - 24, 2009
Where: Buffalo Thunder Resort, Pojoaque, NM

Greening up the Works in Santa Fe County

Submitted by TimJFowler on Tue, 2008/12/09 - 4:54pm
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Santa Fe County Public Works - Vehicle Wash Building

When you think of sustainable architecture, energy efficiency and environmental awareness do you think of your local government? The Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners were thinking ahead to rising energy and building maintenance costs and departmental growth when they requested designs for a new Public Works Facility. The new Santa Fe Public Works Facility is a result of forward-thinking public servants and a sustainable architect coming together to build a campus designed for the long run.

Cool Roof: Pro-Panel vs. Asphalt Shingle

Submitted by TimJFowler on Wed, 2008/11/26 - 4:28pm
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Galvalume Metal Panel Roof at Sunset

It can be tough to keep a cool head these days, especially if you don't have a cool roof. What's a Cool Roof? A cool roof relects and emits the sun's heat back into the sky instead of sending it down into your home or office. Living in the desert Southwest we certainly know that the sun is a powerful source of light and heat. Yet strangely, the most common roofs around here are flat and covered with black tar and gravel.

Building a Better Battery

Submitted by TimJFowler on Tue, 2008/08/26 - 3:17pm
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Students Experimenting with Electric Batteries

WHAT: Use it, Lose It, or Save It: The Science of Renewable Energy Storage - Free Admission
WHEN: Thursday, August 28, 2008, at 7:00 pm
WHERE: James A. Little Theater, NMSD, 1060 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM

How to Kill (or at least, wound) the Solar Industry in America

Submitted by TimJFowler on Fri, 2008/06/27 - 2:30pm
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Concentrating Solar Power Trough

UPDATE - July 2, 2008
The BLM has reversed its earlier decision and will continue to receive and review applications for utility scale solar power projects while it develops a unified PEIS. Click for the Press Release. It looks like the public comments had a direct influence on the BLM!

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