For engineer Michael Strizki, who used to pay $400 monthly utility bills, energy autarky did not come cheaply (more like for $5000,000), but he is a man with a mission. 

August dog days are not too early to think of winter's cold and to stock up on one of man's oldest fuel sources - firewood - now burned in advanced pellet stoves that are flying out of the Travis Industries factory. 

SPR, one of Arizona’s largest utilities has teamed up with Spanish wind giant, Iberdrola, for the state’s first wind power project – enough for 15,000 homes.

US airlines are aiming to fly 100 percent on cheaper, cleaner synthetic fuel by 2010, 50 percent by the end of this year, even though still at a demonstration phase.