For first time-ever, electric vehicles will soon be able to travel the length of the UK using a network of free, solar-powered top-up charging stations located near motorways. According to Ecotricity, the company that installed the network, range anxiety has now been removed from the electric vehicle equation in the UK.
The world's largest express transportation company continues to bolster its fuel efficiency with a significant expansion this summer of lower polluting, energy efficient vehicles. While doubling the fleet of all-electric vehicles to 43, FedEx is also adding more hybrid-electrics and light composite vehicles.
Imagine a machine that can turn almost anything into oil. Imagine that it uses natural processes like heat and pressure, and produces no pollution. Imagine recycling waste from landfills, refuse from poultry factories, sludge from city sewage, or even infectious medical waste. We now know it can be done.
Since 2003, the United States Postal Service has reduced its energy use by 26 percent. Energy efficiency improvements at the USPS's 33,000 buildings have saved enough energy to meet the power needs of 90,000 households for a year. In 2011, alone, the USPS saved $22 million with its 1 trillion BTU reduction in energy use.
or the first time in nearly half a century, that duet between a nation's economic engine and the emissions from power plants and factories seems to ended.
What was once the largest landfill on the planet is being reinvented to provide solar energy to New York City -- enough to power 2,000 homes. Mayor Bloomberg announced last week the city's plans to convert the 47 acres into a 10-MW solar installation, boosting the city's renewable energy by 50 percent.
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