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AltE Have you itemized your power consumption today? ;-)

Source: www.altestore.com
The first step towards energy efficiency or sizing your renewable energy system is in understanding your power loads. Power loads tell us how much power any appliance uses and AltE has long been working ...
Holly Seiferth
Holly Seiferth
So many electronic items... Which would you recommend starting with?
Sat at 8:47am
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AltE This poses an interesting conundrum about renewable energy and teaching kids!

Source: www.treehugger.com
Image via Hammacher Schlemer If I were nine years old again, I'd soooo ask for this for Christmas. It's a learning toy centered on renewable energy. The mad scientist-looking device teaches kids about different types of renewable energy sources,
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AltE Looking for a fun activity tomorrow night? AltE Renewable Energy Basics in Hudson, MA!

Source: www.altestore.com
At AltE we are passionate about renewable energy. Our AltE U classes are one way we share this passion with folks and encourage the widespread use and safe installation of renewable energy systems in your personal and professional lives. ...
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AltE Exciting News! AltE Launches the Kill A Watt Database to the renewable energy community!

Source: www.altestore.com
Hudson, Massachusetts based AltE is proud to announce the launch of the Kill A Watt Database on their website AltEStore.com. The database, which will be accessible from multiple points on the website, ...
Holly Seiferth
Holly Seiferth
This seems to be a good tool not just for individuals but also for community energy efficiency, environmental, and sustainability groups like, in my area, Groton Local and Harvard Local. Will be sure to pass this info on and see if it can be used in some kind of community initiative or education program - perhaps an energy census!
October 29 at 6:55am
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AltE
Thank you, Holly! Please feel free to share with your FB friends as well! ;-)
October 29 at 8:18am
Jeff Peterson
October 29 at 10:19am
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AltE Vertical access wind turbines are hotly debated by those in the industry. This one looks interesting but I wonder how efficient it really is?

Source: www.treehugger.com
Vertical axis wind turbines are an intriguing technology that most people still know little about. The turbines we are accustomed to use blades to turn a horizontal axis (which is often housed in the little cupola on the top
Usman Kazaure Abdullahi
Usman Kazaure Abdullahi
What make it different with the traditional design on efficiency?
October 28 at 2:18pm
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AltE Nice! Dell uses dead parking lot space to generate energy and create shade!

Source: cleantechnica.com
Dell has been a trend-setter when it comes to the incorporation of greener technologies to reduce their corporate carbon footprint and they’re doing it again! Although this time they are following ...
Bob
Bob
Someone should integrate solar panels into the roof tiles they use on homes where u have to connect each one to the other thus making the roof one big solar panel.
October 28 at 4:06pm
Jack Jimenez
Jack Jimenez
they are already on the market
November 1 at 10:07am
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AltE One of the larger and not talked about challenges that faces the RE industry is the upgrade of the electric grid, so this is big news!

Source: online.wsj.com
The White House named 100 utility projects that will share $3.4 billion in federal stimulus funding to improve efficiency of the electric power grid.
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AltE Great article from Celsias!

Source: www.celsias.com
Wind, solar and water sources are sufficient to provide the world’s energy by 2030. The Scientific American has a front cover article coming up in November to claim that. Written by Mark Jacobson ...
David Rollins
David Rollins
This is news? Any grade schooler knows this. Remember the Weekly Reader?
October 26 at 1:50pm
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AltE
Yes, it is certainly obvious. But we like to spread the word to those who don't yet know! By sharing simpler articles like this hope is everyone will share it with their friends who will continue to share it and then we spread awareness - which is one of our major goals here at AltE.
October 27 at 5:23am
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AltE This idea from Joe Biden, could be *amazing* for PV installations nationwide.

Source: cleantechnica.com
Vice President Joe Biden just revealed a plan to make Berkeley First available nationwide. Yesterday at his Middle Class Task Force meeting Biden proposed the way to make solar roofs easy for everyone to afford with virtually free solar panels. ...
Jack Jimenez
Jack Jimenez
nothing is free, it all has to be paid somehow
November 1 at 10:08am
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Source: cleantechnica.com
92% of people think we need to develop and use solar power, but less than 1% of US power is from solar. Where are the gaps?
Holly Seiferth
Holly Seiferth
I think one of the big stumbling blocks to moving "solar" from an idea to an action is that "going solar" is often too ambiguous. I read the article and followed the link to the 1BOG website, and started signing up. As I read through the information they were asking for, I was struck that they wanted only monthly electricity costs, no gas or other ... Read Moreutilities info need be provided. It began to dawn on me that 1BOG's focus seems to be PV (which we aren't interested in) versus solar residential hot water (which we are because we feel the ROI is much higher). I spent a while on the 1BOG website and found repeated references to "solar" versus specific references to PV, solar thermal hot water, etc. It almost seemed deliberately vague from front page to testimonials and so on - as if it was unimportant to go much beyond "go solar," like a trend or a brand name. I signed up in the hopes I'll be surprised and they will be able to help me with solar thermal hot water, but I'm not counting on it.I would have appreciated a lot more clarity, and a little less marketing.
October 20 at 5:42pm
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AltE
Holly, you are totally right - and that approach surprises me. PV is great but solar hot water heating is a much easier and more cost effective entree, especially when coupled with an on demand hot water heater. That's one of the reasons we offer separate classes and information, and have separate experts just for solar thermal!
October 22 at 4:51am
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AltE Exciting news from California!

Source: cleantechnica.com
Taking notes from Europe, perhaps, Schwarzenegger signed legislation for a “feed-in tariff” earlier this week that requires Calfornia utilities buy solar power from relatively small generators and at higher than market-value prices.
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AltE Opinions? Agree, disagree, discuss!

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Photo left via tvtropes.org; photo center via allposters.com; photo right via impawards.com. There's nothing like a vision of a world gone to hell to get the point across. Movies--especially fantastic movies--have the power to hit messages home with people
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AltE Not always possible, especially with RE technology like solar panels, but this is certainly something to think about!

Source: www.treehugger.com
Lamson & Goodnow factory operations. Locally-produced food has been widely written on for years: from the Times to TreeHugger. Non-food items made near home have been overlooked, however. Let's change that. There was a time when durable really meant
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AltE New technologies on the horizon!

Source: cleantechnica.com
Solar power technology is moving forward by leaps and bounds, with some new advancements being built out into usable installations virtually every day. Design concepts once thought to be ‘pie in ...
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Source: cleantechnica.com
The solar capacity of the National Mall in Washington D.C. has increased exponentially in just a week as teams of college students from 20 international schools hurriedly reassembled their submissions ...