CBV reader, Conrad N., submitted the link to this New Yorker article. Give it some time as it is eight pages or so. But it is written descriptively as a journey of unfolding knowledge. The most exciting bits to me are the stats about the Danish island Samsø. What started as a renewable energy contest […]

With the growing popularity of green/sustainable/renewable products and services, many offerings come up a bit short.  But for a small new urbanist community in Alberta Canada, the promise of free energy from the sun is coming true in a big way.  The Drake Landing Solar Community shares what amounts to a giant heat pump.  The […]

The Colorado Springs Gazette picks up the story of a Nathrop resident investigating the use of geothermal energy from a hot aquifer that runs beneath his property to drive a 10 Megawatt power plant. This isn’t the first time that the Arkansas River Valley has attempted to develop power systems based on heat […]