Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Super-Cute Electric Car: The Tango
George Clooney has a new car that he showed off in the recent “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair. It’s called the Tango and is made by Commuter Cars Corporation out of Spokane Washington. I have not had the privilege of seeing one in person, but from the website they look pretty awesome.
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Biodiesel Co-op Starts Up in Madison WI
A group of ten forward-thinking Madisonians have turned the former Car Care Clinic at 1894 E. Washington Ave into PrairieFire BioFuels Cooperative. If all goes well they will be selling 100% biodiesel from a real, honest-to-goodness pump on E. Washington Ave. by the end of the summer. At the moment all fuel sales are [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Swedish Cow Train
It used to be that people only got methane from dung. That is no longer the case. Check out what those crazy Swedes are doing. Svensk Biogas of Linkoping Sweden has figured out a way to use the whole cow too!
In addition to the dung they can now use chopped up cow [...]
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Further Proof That Solar is Cool
Check out this incredible juggling video that features solar panels.
Vova Galchenko and Mark Bakalor’s video
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Potato Power!
I think this is my favorite renewable energy source yet. Not at all practical but VERY amusing. Amos Latteier built a battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. 500 POUNDS! That’s a LOT of potatoes.
This is another tidbit that is not current at all, but I just couldn’t resist pointing it out. 500 pound potato [...]
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Renewable Energy Featured in Portland Rose Festival
This year at the Portland Rose Festival, the Waterfront Village had its power supplied from new wind farms in Oregon and Washington. To add to the Renewable Energy awesomeness, Portland General Electric made a float for the big parade that shows off “energy-related sustainable technology.”
Read more about PGE’s contributions to renewable energy and the [...]
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Construction Crews Lead the Way with Solar Equippment
I’ve been seeing more and more solar panels on construction and municipal equippment lately. From solar powered flashing lights in school zones, to solar call boxes and message signs on the highway, renewable energy is popping up all over and making life better by providing power in remote areas.
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Jessica Alba Loves Biodiesel
Jessica Alba was just on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to plug her new movie: The Fantastic Four 2. Right at the end of the interview she mentioned that she is really into alternative fuels, and she tried to convince Jay to run his diesel vehicles on biodiesel. He was thoroughly unimpressed.
Nice try anyway [...]
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Spinach Solar
This is pretty old news (in fact, two years old today) but it’s so awesome that I wanted to post it for anyone else who might’ve missed it.
A bunch of engineers at MIT made a solar cell out of spinach. For real. They looked to nature for inspiration, and realized that since plants [...]
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Cutting Edge Renewable Energy Tech Appearing in the Strangest Places
First it was Bio Town USA in Reynolds IN, and now it’s East Amwell NJ. If I would’ve had to guess, I would’ve thought that the cutting edge of renewable energy technology would be somewhere like Seattle WA, Madison WI, or some other progressive cool place with hippie/environmentalist leanings. Of course I’m not [...]
