Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Fascinating Study On Solar Panel Structure by 13 Year Old Boy
A kid from New York studied leaf placement on trees, and how they relate to Fibonacci sequences, in order to make more efficient solar panel arrays. Very cool. http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2011/aidan.html
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
BeUtilityFree Puts The Means Of Renewable EnergyProduction Into The Hands Of The People.
I’ve been adding articles to this site from time to time and I think I ought to make a plug for the company I work for, which is working on making renewable energy available to everyone. Hey, Mark okayed it, so plugging your company must be cool! ; ) Shameless Plug for BeUtilityFree Take the [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Solar Heat Engine to be 60% Efficient
One of the most surprising things about this new invention is that it was (in a roundabout way) inspired by the SuperSoaker. Lonnie Johnson, the man who made “squirt gun” synonymous with inadequacy, is currently working on a prototype heat engine which would use heat from the sun to force hydrogen ions through a molecular [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Google Lays Out the Big Bucks for Renewable Energy
In late November, Google announced that it plans to spend somewhere in the tens of millions of dollars to support the development of renewable energy infrastructure in 2008 and hundreds of millions in the near future. Their plan is to spur the development of high-altitude wind generation (a technology as yet untested), solar thermal electricity [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Germany Mandates Heating New Homes with Renewable Energy. Why Haven’t We Thought of That?
The Renewable Energies Heating Law just passed in Germany requires all new homes built after January 1st, 2009 to provide 14% of their heating and hot water energy with renewable sources. The German government is promising $517 million dollars a year in grants to help make this happen. Then, starting in 2010, existing homes will [...]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Convert Your VW Into an Electric Vehicle!
Yes it’s true! You can convert your VW into an electric car with the kits available at e-volks.com. It’s pretty amazing really. I read about this website in Make magazine, and it looks really cool. The guy in the article made his car not only electric, but solar as well, by putting a $350 solar [...]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
A Strong Argument for Nuclear Power… in the Short Term
I have been against nuclear power for as long as I have given any thought to the issue. I hate to say it, but I have just changed my mind. There is a great article in a recent Discover Magazine that lays out the important details, and is the first comprehensive comparison I have seen [...]
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
New Solar Roof for the Toyota Prius!
A company called Solar Electric Vehicles has put out what Prius owners have been waiting for: a solar roof panel. It apparently costs about $2000-4000 and will pay for itself in 2-3 years. Read a very nice article at TreeHugger.com. Photo from TreeHugger.com Also, check out the Solar Electric Vehicles site for more information.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
New Eco-Friendly Car Manufacturer
photos: Michel Zumbrunn The Venturi Company from Monaco is hitting the renewable energy vehicle market full-force. They have three different models already: The Eclectic (a golf-cart looking super eco-car; below), the Astrolab (in between a sports car, and a an eco-car; above), and the Fetish (all-out sports car). Only the Fetish is in production at [...]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Buy Green Power from Your Local Utility
While the costs of setting up a solar or wind power system for an individual home can be prohibitive, there is another option. You can buy green power from the utility you already use. For a nominal fee (we pay four dollars a month) you pay your utility a little extra to buy electricity from [...]
