Fairy tales about renewable energy

Chris Buzelli painted several fairy tale images with renewable energy themes for a calendar for Entega. He has artwork on sale at his site, and a few paintings on sale at Gallery Nucleus.

*Buy pin-up calendars at Amazon.

Grid Monitor screensaver monitors the health of the power grid

From the official description:

The screensaver is an integrated collection of five dynamic graphs. The graphs give a picture of the stresses on the power grid, visibly showing frequency disturbances as they occur. Power system engineers can use these curves to judge the stability of the system and detect forewarnings of impending disturbances.

Download it here (on the right sidebar). Via.

*Find more great screensavers here.

Fearmongering of the day: Wind farms cause night terrors

I'm sure a dubious lawsuit is on the way: new research suggests that living close to wind turbines can cause sleep disorders, difficulty with equilibrium, headaches, childhood "night terrors" and other health problems. Link.

*Previously: Environmentalists protesting solar energy plants because they disrupt the beauty of the desert.

Alaska investigating possibility of harnessing volcanic energy to generate electricity

Story here.

Alaska investigating possibility of harnessing volcanic energy to generate electricity

Story here.