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The Solar Decathlon

I don’t usually post many of these articles, but this one is pretty interesting to me. Every other year the U.S. Department of Energy and various sponsors put on what is called a Solar Decathlon. This year it is sponsored by an energy leader in BP, so it is being called the BP Solar Decathlon. [...]

Soybeans in your gas tank

So what do you put into your gas tank? Obviously it is some sort of fossil fuel that is pulled out of the ground as a derivative of petroleum, but what about soy beans? More technical bio-diesal. Instead of being derived from petroleum, biodiesal is a processed fuel that comes from biological materials such as [...]

Breaking the mold in solar power

This is interesting news. I know I am certainly going to check into this since I would love nothing more than to have solar panels on my next home. Depending on what these costs actually are it sounds like it may be a better option. The cost compared to financing these things has to be [...]