Survey: Tea Party, Independent Voters Differ On Climate, Clean Energy Issues – North American Windpower

According to the poll, Independents are more than twice as likely as Tea Party supporters (62% versus 27%) to see global warming as a problem in need of a solution, compared to 39% of Republicans and 82% of Democrats.

Geothermal energy a step closer for Western Australia

“The expected expenditure for geothermal exploration for the 36 permits in the Perth Basin is more than $560million in the next six years,” he said.

“This industry has the potential to provide clean energy to the State’s electricity network and offer innovative solutions for companies to meet their own power requirements.

“Harnessing geothermal energy, for heating and power use, is another feather in the State’s clean energy cap.”

Different Clean Air Technologies

Wind is a renewable energy source that emits no pollution. It is the fastest-growing “green” energy in the U.S. and provides light to the Statue of Liberty. Wind farms—clusters of huge windmills—produce electricity by using the motion of their blades to spin a shaft connected to a generator. Experts estimate that the electricity created in 2006 by America’s wind farms will displace some 15 million tons of carbon dioxide. Over five million acres of forest would be needed to absorb that much CO2. Some people oppose wind farms because they occupy large tracts of land and can sometimes harm birds, but most agree that their environmental costs are much lower than those of fossil fuels.

Plumbing the oceans could bring limitless clean energy

“This has the potential to become the biggest source of renewable energy in the world,” says Robert Cohen, who headed the US federal ocean thermal energy programme in the early 1970s.

City Council Seeks Clean Energy Grant

The grants, which will be awarded next May, allot a minimum of $100,000 for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings that serve low income residents. The Peabody school qualifies for the program because more than 50 percent of its students qualify for free and reduced lunch, Healy said at the meeting.