Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Energy’

Switching To Solar Energy

By Jim • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Green Projects

This article examines the benefits and potential issues you could face when thinking of moving over to solar power.



Scottish Government Reject Alternative Energy Plans.

By Jim • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

The Scottish government has rejected plans to build one of Europe’s biggest onshore wind farms due what it said was the “significant adverse impacts” on the local environment.
Ministers in Edinburgh decided that the 500-million-pound (one-billion-dollar, 625-million-euro) project would have threatened rare and endangered bird populations and damaged peatland on the remote Isle of Lewis, northwest […]



Forget Biofuel! Here’s Porridge Power!

By Jim • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News

…Scott’s Porage Oats, a Quaker Oats Factory at Uthrogle Mills in Scotland is installing a combined heat and power biomass boiler that will enable the factory to become carbon-neutral, running entirely on waste oat husks. The husks, removed from the oats during the milling process, will provide 9,709 MWhrs of electricity and 10,902 MWhrs of […]