carbon credits Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:17:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 SunPort: The Outlet Extender that Offsets its Carbon Footprint https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunport-outlet-extender/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunport-outlet-extender/#respond Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:17:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56024 A crowdfunding campaign from a company called SunPort is seeking funding for an outlet extender that offsets the carbon footprint of whatever device is being powered. It looks like a typical converter for electrical outlets, but instead of making a two-prong outlet into a three-prong one, it records the amount of electricity that was used and […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunport-outlet-extender/feed/ 0 56024 Masdar to Build 100MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant in Abu Dhabi https://www.greenoptimistic.com/masdar-build-100mw-concentrated-solar-power-plant-abu-dhabi-20100612/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/masdar-build-100mw-concentrated-solar-power-plant-abu-dhabi-20100612/#respond Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:57:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7968 The CSP power plant dubbed Shams 1 (the Arabic word for "Sun") will cover one square mile of the desert in Madinat Zayed, about 75 miles from Abu Dhabi and will be able to generate 100 MW of electricity.

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