An innovative green ad campaign
Andy Hobsbawm presents an interesting an innovative green ad campaign at TED…
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Entries Tagged ‘climate change’
Australia to have 200,000+ electric car charging stations by 2012
Oct.27, 2008 in
Current Events, Energy Tech, News of note, Technology, The Environment |
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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 [...]
|Google’s ambitious and impressive Clean Energy 2030 proposal
Oct.03, 2008 in
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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 [...]
A Facebook app that helps you be a bit greener
A friend from work told me about this little Facebook app called: iamgreen. Essentially it asks you some simple questions and uses that data to rank how green you are (in a superficial and simplistic way), which you can then use to compare your results to your friends and colleagues. You can also [...]
|IKEA selling solar panels? Is this the tipping point (finally)?
I have been interested in alternative energy for some time now, specifically in the area of solar cells. I have also been frustrated by the lack of momentum in the areas of innovation and ingenuity when it came to solar radiation capture, storage and distribution. I guess my frustration stemmed from the knowledge that we [...]
|A cheap and easy way to store solar energy is here!
Aug.01, 2008 in
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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. [...]
|First wave tidal power turbine to put power onto the grid
Jul.18, 2008 in
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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 [...]
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