Duke Energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:11:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 North Carolina Legislation Allows Coal Power Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-legislation-allows-coal-power-pollution-20140318/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-legislation-allows-coal-power-pollution-20140318/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:11:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46532 Coal power plants, aside from generating electricity and the worst carbon dioxide emissions of any power plant. As if coal power wasn’t dirty enough, from an emissions standpoint, they also generate tons of coal ash as a byproduct of combustion. Of course, the coal ash has to be put somewhere, but the only solution, so […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-legislation-allows-coal-power-pollution-20140318/feed/ 1 46532 North Carolina to Have 100% of Its Power Coming from Off-Shore Wind Turbines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-100-power-coming-offshore-wind-turbines-20100321/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/north-carolina-100-power-coming-offshore-wind-turbines-20100321/#respond Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:20:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7098 According to a new study made by the University of North Carolina (UNC), the North Carolina state could have 100% of its power coming from off-shore wind turbines. The company Duke Energy wants to make North Carolina “the first state to generate wind power from in-water turbines”, by building three pilot off-shore wind turbines in […]

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