green power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:51:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Germany’s Transition To Green Energy Moving Faster Than Ever https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-transition-to-green-energy-moving-faster-than-ever-20130711/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-transition-to-green-energy-moving-faster-than-ever-20130711/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:29:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39155 Germany’s feed-in tariffs, an initiative that began in year 2000, allow small scale green energy producers to sell excess power to the national grid. The  scale and cost of the project are comparable to the fall of the Berlin wall, but market analysts and skeptics wonder whether the country will be able to handle the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-transition-to-green-energy-moving-faster-than-ever-20130711/feed/ 0 39155 10 Cool Green Energy Innovations Around the World https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-cool-green-energy-innovations-around-the-world-20121001/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-cool-green-energy-innovations-around-the-world-20121001/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:38:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26266 From wind-powered vehicles to solar rubbish dumps, here’s a short selection of the world’s most innovative places where green energy has been put to work, around the world. Enjoy. #1. Kenya and Ethiopa. Utilizing PV solar powered mini-refrigerator mounted on camels in used to carry vaccines & medicine to remote area in deserts. # 2. Taiwan. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/10-cool-green-energy-innovations-around-the-world-20121001/feed/ 0 26266 European Supergrid Concept of Using Green Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/european-supergrid-concept-of-using-green-energy-20090530/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/european-supergrid-concept-of-using-green-energy-20090530/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 19:00:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3600 Even if it may sound like science fiction, the vision of the European Union is to be able to power the entire Continent with Green Energy: from solar panels to wind and wave turbines, from geothermal to hydroelectric power stations.

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