When President George Bush calls to repeal a 27 year-old ban on oil exploration in coastal waters surrounding the US, both law-makers and the American public need to take one step back and benefit from an oft’ forgotten virtue, perspective.

The NY Times reports that this past Monday Honda celebrated the start of production of its new FCX Clarity, the world’s first hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle intended for mass production. Fuel cells work from combining hydrogen and oxygen from the outside air to make electricity in a process whose only byproducts are water and heat. Not only will the use of fuel-cell vehicles help alleviate the effects of climate change but it might eventually provide a financial benefit over oil which has risen to $140 per barrel.

All of our Emergent partners are back from Wind Power 2008 in Houston, Texas. The conference was exciting and highly productive. A lot of new contacts have been made and we hope many new partnerships will emerge from the conference. Jayson is currently in Houston taking a seminar on GH WindFarmer, the software Emergent uses to optimize our wind farm designs prior to development.

This evening, we paid a visit to the Tiverton, Rhode Island Town Council to discuss the possibilities of a wind partnership. On our way to the Tiverton Town Hall, we visited the Portsmouth Abbey Wind Project, a 660kW wind turbine that has been operating at the Portsmouth Abbey for nearly 4 years. Pictured here is Chris beneath the spinning blades of the Abbey turbine.