All Posts Tagged With: "Solar Power"
The Daily Five: Friday, 11 December, 2009
Solar Power System Tracks the Sun; Chevy Volts to arrive early?; Green Products at CES; Fuel cell boat; AT&T Sustainability Advisory Council
Solar Power System Tracks the Sun Mendocino College in Ukiah, California, will now be saving $14.9 million in electricity costs over the next 25 years, thanks to a just-installed solar power system with sun-tracking [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 08 December, 2009
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights; Drive for geothermal power heats up; Oregon Wave Project; Fisker Karma Launch in 2010; Solar Powered Shoes
Hand Crank Twinkle Lights The folks behind Yanko Design are always thinking, and lately their thoughts are stuck on solar and renewable energy gadgets. The latest design, a hand-crank, “Eco-Twinkle Light” takes the idea of [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 02 December, 2009
Toyota Hybrid Sports Car; Hydro-Quebec; UKEco 60v Electric Scooter; Solar Powered Knit Hat; Vectrix lives again
Toyota Developing Mid-Engined Hybrid Sports Car Toyota may bring the MR2 back as a hybrid called the MR-S, and would employ a custom version of the Toyota Prius’ hybrid powertrain.
Hydro-Quebec’s Green Power Export Plans Hydro-Quebec’s move last month to boost [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Solar-Powered Plane; Wind Power Investments Grow; Sugar Cane Waste to Replace Coal; Solar engine fits in a wine glass; Cost of Solar Power to Drop By Half
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut Biofuels are often touted as the next big thing in airplane fuel technology, but solar power shouldn’t be discounted — as was recently proven [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 06 November, 2009
Making sustainability mainstream; Solar Power Mobile Power; Toilet, Sink, Grey Water Cistern; EcoFactor thermostats; Collapsible, portable rain barrel
Video: How can we make sustainability mainstream? Campaigner and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill reflects on the concept of sustainability and what it will take to make it mainstream.
Making Solar Power Mobile Power The units come with a [...]
The Daily Five: Friday, 30 October, 2009
Golf BlueMotion; EPA’s Green Power Schools Ranking; Tesla breaks record; Xcel Energy to add more solar; Solar Race Cars
Volkswagen launches Golf BlueMotion Volkswagen has just launched the new BlueMotion Golf in the European market and it is the most efficient Golf ever. The new model is rated at 61.9 mpg (U.S.) on the EU combined [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Solar-powered AC Built Into Blinds; Microsoft eyes smart grid; Best Practices in Green Electronics; LG Cellphone has a solar charger built in; Schwarzenegger Wants to Buy Your Surplus Solar Power
Solar-powered AC Built Into Blinds Now this is a cool idea – an AC unit that doubles up as blinds and sources green power from the [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 24 September, 2009
Toyota Unveils Plug-In Prius Hybrid; Solar Power to Africa’s Poor; Airlines vow to cut carbon; E.Coli Cleans Up Nuclear Waste; Big Polluters Told to Report Emissions
Toyota Unveils Plug-In Prius Hybrid Toyota has unveiled its Prius Plug-In Concept at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany, and it generates CO2 emissions below 60 g/km, along with [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009
Electric Bike + Laptop + Phone; Samsung greens their factories; Solar-powered moon rover; Terra-Gen Power wind financing; Big box stores targeting lighting inefficiencies
Electric Bike + Laptop + Phone. Not much to say, really, other than it is an electric bike with a laptop holder and a built-in smartphone. Cool.
Samsung to Go Green. Samsung wants spend [...]
The Daily Five: Tuesday, 07 July, 2009
Speeding up recycling with lasers; Vodafone solar powered mobile home; Smart ForTwo review; Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin’ Lasers; Peapod neighborhood EV
Speeding up recycling with lasers. At the Panasonic Eco Technology Center in Kato, Japan, they’ve come up with a way to recycle old CRT TVs three times faster. Typically, workers [...]
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