Archive for June, 2009
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 30 June, 2009
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel; Anheuser-Busch Taps Landfill Gas for Houston Brewery; LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy; Storing Hydrogen Using Chicken Feathers; Toyota Prius vs. VW Clean Diesel
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel. Scientists have been trying for years to find a non-food source for ethanol. A company in Bonita Springs, Florida, [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 29 June, 2009
Electric lawnmowers, Solar supercar, Waterless washing machine, Smart ForTwo $99, Sacramento smart power grid
Trade-in Your Gas Guzzler for an Electric Mower in Southern California The South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called “Mow Down Air Pollution” which offers LA, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino county residents an opportunity to trade [...]
The Field Lab: A Study In Sustainable Living.
I wanted to pass along some info about this site I just started reading called The Field Lab, which is a “Southwest Texas Alternative Energy And Sustainable Living Field Laboratory” as named by John Wells, the proprietor of the “lab”. John has been experimenting with alternative energy and living off-the-grid on 40 acres of [...]
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Friday, 26 June, 2009
Microsoft’s energy management tool; Audi Pushes Clean Diesel on Facebook; $4.5 billion in smart grid grants coming out;Message from Al Gore – Clean Energy Bill (Video); Solar-powered Android cell phone
Microsoft’s energy management tool. While most everyone knows that Google has been developing one, I had no idea that Microsoft was too. Their device, like Google’s, [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 25 June, 2009
Toyota’s solar-powered car; Tidal & wave power among the most expensive; All-electric smart fortwo; Monolab solar skyscraper; Green energy investments overtake fossil fuel investment
Toyota developing a car that would charge only by solar energy. The concept for their solar car would get some of its power from solar cells on the vehicle and the [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 24 June, 2009
Hot eco-cars that go zoom-zoom; Solar tent; Tesla Motors to get DOE loan; Solarwind turbine; Supercomputer doubles as space heater
You don’t need to drive a bad-looking car to save the planet. The first car on the list, the Aero EV, has a twin motor AESP producing a jaw-dropping 1,000 hp, goes 60 mph [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009
Efficient LED lighting on wingtips; Solar LED hat; Toyota’s new tiny car, the iQ3; Solar-powered Air Conditioner; High-altitude wind machines powering NYC
Efficient LED lighting on Airbus wingtips. Airbus A320 planes are about to get an energy-efficiency upgrade in the form of LED lights on their wingtips, which will last up to 20,000 hours before [...]
The Daily Five: Monday, 22 June, 2009
UNM-Taos solar power; Scania Concept truck; Honda’s ultra-cheap hybrids; Solar-powered yacht; Combining wind power with electric vehicles
UNM-Taos’ new solar array will provide for all of the school’s electric needs. The local branch of the University of New Mexico here in Taos is about to go all-solar. The 500-kilowatt array, which is comprised of [...]
Solar Backpack Sweepstakes
Our friends over at TreeHugger.com have gotten their hands on some super cool Votaic Solar back packs.
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Friday, 19 June, 2009
Shipping container “green” homes; Hydrogen open-source car; High-intensity electronic light fixtures; POLLI-Brick turns plastic bottles into green building material; Dyson Energy Bracelet
Would you live in a shipping container home? Fully recyclable and a great reuse of what some consider trash, these homes from Adam Kalkin are really beautiful. I would live in one of [...]
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