Green Planet Profit$

Photo via Seeker 401 Put simply, the capacity for something to go very, very wrong as a result of technical mismanagement (or otherwise). Now, there are surely a great number of things that could also fit the bill, but I highlight these for a reason: In the wake of the BP spill, there are numerous [...]

Alaska Power & Telephone Company is kicking off a hydrokinetic river energy project on the Yukon River which someday could possibly replace dams as a less invasive means of hydropower. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Sun Dog Solar and the Haitian Community Development Project of Chatham, NY, team up to create a solar mobile power station for Haiti residents still without power after the earthquake. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

image: Statkraft Osmotic Power has been kicking around for a while now, with researchers trying to make it cost-competitive–the biggest hurdle when you’re trying to generate electricity by passing fresh water through a membrane into saltwater. Now, a new report from cleantech consultants Kachan & Co says that the potential of osmotic power is such [...]

Image credit: Mitch Epstein, American Power Across the country, billboards are springing up. They feature an image that is arresting—smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil refinery—and a simple question written in plain letters. “What is American Power?” Taken from photographer [...]

Nipton, a sliver of a town near the Mojave National Preserve in California, is getting a solar power system from Skyline Solar that reportedly will be able to handle the vast majority of its power needs. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

A special eco-boat capable of being powered by solar and wind power as well as alternative fuels is now cruising around the Huangpu River near the ongoing Shanghai World Expo. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

A start-up called Husk Power Systems, funded by the likes of Shell and Acumen Funds, will have set up nearly 170 power plants in rural India fueled by locally abundant biomass rice-husks by the end of 2010. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Makani Power recently tested a large-wing kite it believes can act like a high-flying wind turbine to provide wind energy to the power grid. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Photo via KHL If you met a guy who lived in house that has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, ran on geothermal power, and who made use of his high public profile to endorse wind power, you’d probably think he was pretty green. Of course, knowing that the guy also happens to be 43rd US [...]