Alaska Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Study: How the Arctic Carbon Cycle is Being Disrupted https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arctic-carbon-cycle-disrupted-20180811/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arctic-carbon-cycle-disrupted-20180811/#respond Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:32:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66864 According to a study led by NASA, using data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment shows that carbon in Alaska’s North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about 13 percent less in frozen soil compared to what it did 40 years ago. The carbon cycle is close to the levels of American boreal forest. Studies using Landsat […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/arctic-carbon-cycle-disrupted-20180811/feed/ 0 66864 U.S. Air Force Considers Wind Power for Remote Combat Training https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:20:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42097 The US Air Force is currently rethinking its fuel consumption. The Air Force has monitoring stations in remote parts of Alaska where they are monitoring wind turbines. For these monitoring stations they perform air fuel drops during September and March. March can be particularly hazardous for pilots due to extreme weather conditions. To decrease the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/u-s-air-force-considers-wind-power-remote-combat-training-20131002/feed/ 0 42097 Alaska Champions Geothermal Power, Plans Leasing Rights Public Offering https://www.greenoptimistic.com/alaska-champions-geothermal-power-plans-leasing-rights-public-offering-20130212/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/alaska-champions-geothermal-power-plans-leasing-rights-public-offering-20130212/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:15:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=33053 In Alaska’s Lower Cook Inlet, home of the active Augustine Volcano, the Division of Oil and Gas plans to offer the public the chance to bid for leasing rights on the entirety of Augustine Island, its tidelands, and surrounding waters. This amounts to close to 66,000 acres of state-owned land. On May 8, the lease […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/alaska-champions-geothermal-power-plans-leasing-rights-public-offering-20130212/feed/ 0 33053 Alaska Installing Solar Water Heating System for Educational Purposes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/denali-education-center-solar-water-heating-20090909/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/denali-education-center-solar-water-heating-20090909/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:38:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4400 To reduce energy consumption, Denali Education Center has come up with an idea to install a hot water system, and they managed to make it one of the largest in the state.

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