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5:56 am on Thursday August 2, 2012
Hands Across the Sand, "a powerful way to say no to offshore drilling"
Flickr User: Ana.Campos
This Saturday, August 4, 2012, people from all 50 states and 40 countries around the world will join hands in protest offshore drilling and support clean energy.
The Hands Across the Sand movement started on February 13, 2010...
6:05 am on Tuesday October 26, 2010
Beaufort High entrepreneur gets into the biofuel game (w/video)
Flickr user stepitup2007
WSAV has a cute report about a Beaufort High School student who is converting diesel engines into ones that will run on cooking oil. He's also going out and collecting the cooking oil to fuel them.
This isn't necessarily a...
4:39 am on Wednesday October 20, 2010
Santee Cooper finds 'significant electric power' in S.C.'s offshore winds
Image by Flickr user Martin Pettitt Big, mean wind turbines -- and also something S.C. is nowhere near ready to install yet.
Update October 20: After a yearlong wind study conducted by Santee Cooper, six buoys in the ocean from 1 1/2 miles to 12...
10:55 am on Thursday November 19, 2009
Art and innovation shake hands and meet in Charleston
Image by Alec SheaffImage by 20091119-panel.jpg
Local wood artisan, Michael James Moran, has joined forces with John Griswold and Alec Sheaff of EcoBilt Energy Systems to create a novel application of alternative energy in the arts community....
3:00 pm on Thursday November 13, 2008
Wind turbines in S.C. thwarted by low energy cost
NBC News 2 followed up with Santee Cooper after all the talk about the new wind test station. They found out that while South Carolina's would-be wind industry is thwarted by a relatively low cost of energy locally, industry officials think we could...
4:23 am on Friday August 15, 2008
Hydrogen tour comes through South Carolina
Image by Flickr user jurvetsonImage by 20080815hydrogen.jpg Vehicles like BMW's Hydrogen Series 7 will be on show.
If you don't mind burning a little fossil fuel to get there, you could test-drive what could be the new cars of the future: Hydrogen...
5:09 pm on Sunday August 3, 2008
South Carolina hopes for a bright hydrogen future
Image by Flickr user DRB62Image by 20080803hydrogentrees.jpg The sun represents a proof-of-concept for the power of hydrogen. But if it can be used in cars in a practical fashion that is cheaper and more convenient than plug-ing electric cars...
7:32 am on Monday July 21, 2008
Utility nears biomass deal
Image by flickr user D'Arcy NormanImage by 20080721garbage.jpg It might not look (or smell) pretty, but landfills produce a lot of methane gas, which can be used to provide energy to thousands of people.
After deciding last month to increase its use...
6:16 am on Wednesday July 9, 2008
Ethanol plant coming near Greenville
Image by flickr user crabchickImage by 20080709barley.jpg Barley. More of it could be flowing through South Carolinians' engines soon. [gmap markers=blue::34.59930237746263,-81.463623046875 |zoom=6 |center=33.7243396617476,-80.771484375 |width=220px...
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