A company called Raser Technologies will be building New Mexico’s first geothermal power plant to provide electricity from this renewable resource to power resident’s homes. And, not only this, but the homes will be in neighboring Arizona.
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New Mexico’s First Geothermal Power Plant Being Developed
(via www.the-scientist.com)
Submitted by fozapd on Thu, 2008-07-10 05:30. | Tags: nature | science | geothermal | green | New Mexico | power plant
Oil giants abandon plans for ‘uneconomic’ green power plant
(via business.timesonline.co.uk)
 Shell and StatoilHydro have scrapped plans to build a green power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide because the project was found to be uneconomic.
Submitted by oysterbox on Sat, 2008-01-12 01:34. | Tags: business | oil | power plant

China Power Plant Emissions to Rise 60% by 2017
(via ecologicliving.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate-warming emissions from China's power plants -- already among the world's worst greenhouse polluters -- will rise by some 60 percent in the next decade, a new global database showed on Wednesday.
Submitted by paulvaggen on Fri, 2007-11-16 04:46. | Tags: architecture | carbon | china | climate change | earth | eco | emissions | energy | environment | global warming | green | pollution | power plant | sustainability