Posted on 21 April 2010
NASA’s Puffin is a single seated electric powered airplane, a combination of an airplane and a helicopter morphed into a hybrid sky vehicle. It’s a personal flying machine of the future! Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer, conceptualized the idea of electric aircraft for his doctoral degree. The Puffin can be launched via vertical take-off and landing. The lightweight Puffin produces [...]
Posted on 20 April 2010
Whole Foods Market, based out of Austin, Texas, has been contributing to the proliferation of wind power projects and wind farms by buying renewable energy credits over the last few years. In an attempt to cut their overall energy consumption by 25% per square foot by 2015, they are now also looking to make their [...]
Posted on 20 April 2010
One of 12 companies to recieve support from Michigan’s congressional delegation, Ventower Industries has broken ground on its 115,000-foot wind-tower manufacturing facility, after winning an advanced-energy manufacturing tax credit under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Ventower Industries, a full service fabricator and supplier of industrial scale, wind turbine towers, provides wind towers to wind [...]
Posted on 19 April 2010
President Obama hasn’t made any indication on what he plans to say on April 30 when he reveals the fate of the Cape Code Wind Power project. The massive wind power plan was been in the works for nearly a decade and it is now up to Obama and interior Secretary Ken Salazar whether the [...]