Yeah…I’m a geek

In an attempt to add some context to something that we all need, but have a hard time wrapping our collective heads around (yeah…air), some geniuses in Madrid have actually visualized all of the things that make up and invade our air.  Check out more information and images at Brain Pickings…

In the air – Physical [...]

Stewart Brand uses his time at TED to challenge existing ideologies around weighty issues like the environment, mass poverty, geo-engineering and energy provision/consumption.  While you may or may not agree with his views, they have the wonderful effect of getting people talking and discussing these critical concepts.
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One of the largest challenges facing the concept of electric cars has been the lack of a reliable and readily accessible power distribution network.  No one would want to get into their car and head out on a trip without knowing there was available power within their 150 to 200 km range.  Well,  the Associated Press published this [...]

Back on July 18th 2008, I posted a story about an environment challenge that Al Gore issued to the American people:
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years”
Many people at the time felt that his plan was beyond [...]

RoofRay is a new site (currently in beta) that helps users investigate the viability of installing solar panels on their current or dream home.  Using Google Maps and some ingenious and simple calculations, RoofRay calculates what kind of intensity you can expect from a rooftop installation.  Currently, the site is a little slow to say [...]

One of the more significant challenges that solar radiation has had to deal with as a viable alternative energy source is storage.  To date, storage of solar energy has been inefficient and costly.  Well, some researchers at MIT seem to have discovered/developed an innovative, clean and cheap way by mimicking how plants store the sun’s energy.  [...]

SeaGen’s commercial scale wave power turbine has officially gone online and it putting power into the grid.  More than 4 times the size of other tidal power turbines, this is one of many different technologies that holds the hope of sustainable and clean power generation for the future.
“SeaGen’s power is being intentionally constrained to 300kW [...]

To a packed audience in Washington yesterday, Al Gore issued an inspirational address and challenge:
“Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years”
Gore goes on to discuss the economics, and potentially more importantly, the politics of such a bold (and [...]

Well, it’s nice to see Canada leading the way in terms of gasification plants in North America.  While the tech is that all that new, it hasn’t really caught on outside of Europe until now.   PlascoEnergy Group constructed the first demo site in Ottawa back in 2006 and is now in the process of constructing the permanent [...]