All Posts Tagged With: "LEED"
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Cadillac Converj; Financing Challenges for Geothermal Power; EPA sticks Energy Star label on millionth home; LEED Bowling Lanes; Solar Curtain Wall
Cadillac Converj electric car Using the Volt’s same Voltec electric drivetrain, GM also plans to roll out the Cadillac Converj, which will reportedly look much like the original Cadillac Converj concept vehicle introduced last January [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 09 September, 2009
Toyota Debuting Plug-in Prius; Solar Case for the iPod Touch; LEED Seeking to Beef Up Credentials; Fort Dix to Save $1.2M with Solar, Energy Upgrades; Pedal-powered charger
Toyota Debuting Plug-in Prius The Prius Plug-in Hybrid concept will expand the current car’s ability to travel on electric power alone, to the point where a driver could run [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 27 August, 2009
Sacramento Energy Plant LEED Certified; Smaller, Cheaper Solar Chargers; Tesla Model S to Get Gigantic Battery Pack; Fluor To Design Solar Power Plant; Picnic Plus Cooladio Solar Cooler
Sacramento Energy Plant LEED Certified. A power plant that provides heating and cooling to California state government buildings has become the largest of its kind to become certified [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 7 August, 2009
New Approach to Tidal Power; The Sage Sets a LEED Platinum Record; Retrofit diesel particulate filters; Toilet That Beats A Straight Flush; Solar Forest Keeps Cars Cool And Juiced
‘Oyster’ Wave Plant Takes New Approach to Tidal Power Aquamarine Power unveiled plans to install a new type of wave power system which utilizes an on-shore base [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 30 July, 2009
Metro Cell Vehicle Concept; RainShine LEED Platinum House; $700 Billion Gain from Energy Efficiency; Electric Light-Sport Aircraft; BP says America’s the Land for Wind Power
Metro Cell Vehicle Concept. Single person semi-private vehicle system called PDD (pickup-drive-drop) will be implemented. With the PDD system, a driver finds a “cellular-mobile stack”, engages a car and uses it [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 24 July, 2009
Nissan wireless charging; PreFab Modular Off-Grid Living; Solar bags; LEED hotel in San Diego; Tuvalu going 100% renewable by 2020
Nissan brings wireless charging to electric cars. Inductive charging – which uses electromagnetic fields and coils that interact but never touch – is currently used for things like electric toothbrushes and artificial hearts. Nissan now [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 01 July, 2009
Big Dig House; Tougher LEED standards; Scion iQ coming soon; Magic Cube; More solar arrays on public lands
Big Dig House reuses materials from the Big Dig in Boston. The structural system for this 3,400sf house is comprised of steel and concrete discarded from Boston’s Big Dig, utilizing over 600,000 lbs of salvaged materials from elevated [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 14 August, 2008
Was the Georgia/Russia conflict all about oil? Plus: consumers snub small cars as gasoline prices slowly decline — and China scores U.S. Olympic gold.
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Monday, 14 July, 2008
No clean air progress before the Bush administration leaves office; more record fuel prices; and does the Terminator want to work for President Barack Obama?
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Monday, 28 April, 2008
The EPA isn’t worried about Smokey Bear’s air; ten grand and a new Prius buys you greener-than-thou street cred; and the lowdown on whether electric cars reduce air pollution — or just move it to a power plant smokestack.
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