Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Trapping CO2 as Baking Soda.
Skyonic has a cool idea. The type of idea I like. Take some sodium hydroxide, add some heat, and you can trap co2 by changing it into sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) and release hydrogen. Now the CO2 is in a solid form and it’s useful. All you need is some heat.
Now put this at an [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General, Hydrogen, Save Money: Go Green by GReg
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
New Sheet Insulation for a greener house.
In my ever on-going house renovation I found myself up against Florida Building codes. They want a 1 inch foam layer on the outside of all new construction. This is to provide both an air barrier and insulation. It goes under whatever siding you are using. This usually provides a R2 to R3.5 insulation value [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Green Building, Save Money: Go Green by GReg
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines: The New Hotness of Wind Power
The S-Blade Delta 1
photo: Pacwind Inc.
The show Modern Marvels (on the History Chanel) has been running green shows all week, and they recently ran a show called Environmental Tech 2. There is all kinds of great new stuff on the horizon, and some of it is here already. The show will air again [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Wind by Mark
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The Upgrade path is complete. Incondecent –> Fluorescent –> LED
Now Fluorescent bulbs are not good enough, here is a firm that seems to be making plug in LED bulb replacements for traditional Fluorescent bulbs. I guess it was a matter of time … cool though. I wonder if they flicker as well as Fluorescent bulbs. I’ll miss the flicker. More on it [here]
No Comments » - Posted in Green Building by GReg
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Free Hydrogen for EVERYONE!!!!
Free as in unattached, not free as in no cost.
So energy is pouring down on us in buckets, the problem is we have no good way to catch it. Batteries are not efficient enough, they loose energy over time. We need a good portable light weight and flow-able energy storage device. Something that does not [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Hydrogen by GReg
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
NBC News Goes Green
This week Nightly News on NBC is doing a series on green technology and trends. So far they have covered Wind and Wave power, and there is more to come.
