Missourians for Safe Energy has join our allies, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Renew Missouri in opposing, before the Public Service Commission, Ameren’s effort to amend its Integrated Resource Plan to eliminate funding for energy efficiency programs. See news release from Great Rivers Environmental Law Center [...]
July 4, 2009
Energy in water (in the form of kinetic energy, temperature differences or salinity gradients) can be harnessed and used. Since water is about 800 times denser than air, even a slow flowing stream of water, or moderate sea swell, can yield considerable amounts of energy. There are many forms of water energy: Hydroelectric energy is [...]
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Airflows can be used to run wind turbines. Modern wind turbines range from around 600 kW to 5 MW of rated power, although turbines with rated output of 1.5–3 MW have become the most common for commercial use; the power output of a turbine is a function of the cube of the wind speed, so [...]
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