Free Electric Car Charging; Truth About Cheap Biodiesel; Free power for the world; Energy Star 5.0; Solar Thermal Energy

UK Electronics Retailer Offers Free Electric Car Charging (Video). UK retailer Comet – the British equivalent of Best Buy – has installed a prototype charging station at one of its stores. This is exactly how EV cars are going to compete with gas engines – by having charging stations everywhere we go!

Learning the Hard Truth About Cheap Biodiesel. In Colorado, it’s easy to find biodiesel distributors in major cities along the Front Range. We recently fueled up in Fort Collins, and were pleased to find that the cost of biodiesel was more reasonable than ever. But my joy at the cheap price quickly disappeared a few days later, when I read the latest news about the biodiesel industry’s assault on the rain forest and orangutans. Scary stuff here!

Free power for the world through creative thinking. Don’t think so? Click through and watch some of these YouTube videos.

Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 5.0 specification officially went into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Click through to see what’s different in Energy Star 5.0 vis a vis the Energy Star 4.0 specification.

Solar Thermal Energy – cheaper & easier than Photovoltaics. Solar thermal energy, which is the oldest way of tapping power from the sun, has been used for years in heating applications for households. The basic mechanism of solar thermal energy is to collect the solar radiation and transfer the heat directly or indirectly to its final destination via a heat transfer medium – usually a fluid.

Have a great weekend everyone!