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Sandia Labs Aces Solar Golf Carts
Planet Forward hosted a LIVE event during the White House’s GreenGov Symposium, a conference focused on making all levels of government more sustainable. In this segment, Sandia National Laboratories shows the potential of how a little change can go a long way. In webisode 215, we see how and learn what our esteemed panel (Laura …Read More…
Planet Forward: Our Energy Future
Our first TV special focused on great ideas from you, our members, about how we as a country should approach our energy future. Originally broadcast on April 15, 2009 on PBS.
Meet the Sky Trough at the National Renewable Energy Labs
Planet Forward Host Frank Sesno travels to the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) to find out, what is a Sky Trough? Utility-scale parabolic trough solar concentrators harness the sun’s energy to make steam for electricity generation. The thermal efficiency of the trough is the percent of available sunlight that is converted into heat and available …Read More…
Shameless Plugs: Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles at the National Renewable Energy Labs
Our host, Frank Sesno, visits the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) to check out a Prius they’ve retrofitted to be a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The cars are charged by solar panels in their parking lot. NREL’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle utilizes a rechargeable lithium ion battery pack that gets charged up by a solar panel …Read More…
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Sip On This
So you’re thirsty — You reach for a bottle of cool, refreshing spring water, right? I guess that’s fine and all. Can you tell me where that water comes from or how it gets to your fridge? It’s actually rather interesting when you get down to it. Americans consume 33 billion liters of bottled water a …Read More…
Set your sights on solar!
By Miranda Green The increase of solar panel installations seems to be increasing. This can be seen on the local, national and international levels. And there is good reason for it. Solar panels not only offset carbon fuel emissions but they can save and sometimes earn you money! The increase of solar panels internationally can …Read More…
Fewer Americans believe in Global Warming
Today, Yale Environment released a national survey on public responses to climate change. This report focuses on public beliefs and attitudes and finds that public concern about global warming has dropped sharply since the fall of 2008: * The percentage of Americans who think global warming is happening has declined 14 points, to 57 percent. …Read More…
Time to Nominate the Ostrich for Our National Bird?
Al Gore’s Latest Update to An Inconvenient Truth (Ted Conference 2009) According to Time magazine, recent survey results released by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press indicate that the number of people who believe there is strong evidence the earth has gotten warmer over the last few decades has dropped precipitously…20% …Read More…
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