All Posts Tagged With: "Wind Power"
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 09 December, 2009
Electric VW Golf MK VII; Buses Bring Silence to the Streets; Solar Powered Racing Car; DOE offers $100 million; Recharging EVs with Wind
VW Golf MK VII could get electricified The new MK VI Golf has only just gone on sale here in North America but VW engineers are already hard at work on the [...]
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 [...]
Fox Islands Coastal Wind Project In New England Begins Power Generation
The new Fox Islands Wind Project off the coast of Maine will generate 4.5 megawatts of electricity for the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven, providing clean energy to the islands’ residents. In a nearly unanimous vote in July 2008, island residents ushered in a new era of renewable power in Maine by approving the [...]
Read Article | CommentsThe Daily Five: Friday, 09 October, 2009
T. Boone Pickens interview; Scrutinizing Carbon Capture; Zero-emissions Locomotive; Curved Solar Shingles; Toyota FT-EV II
Pickens on Weaning the U.S. From Foreign Oil Video – At the World Business Forum in New York, T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital Management, updates WSJ’s Paul Glader on his project to reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign oil.
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The Daily Five: Friday, 02 October, 2009
Michelle Kaufmann Prefab Designs Live Again; Zipcar iPhone app; Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water; All-Electric Commercial Truck; Brad Pitt Receives Award From USGBC
Michelle Kaufmann Prefab Designs Live Again With Sale to Blu Homes My favorite eco-friendly prefab home builder is back in action. Great news Michelle!
Zipcar iPhone app The newly-released Zipcar [...]
The Daily Five: Thursday, 01 October, 2009
Oxygen of Green Table; China’s Wind Power Potential; e-Wolf to Debut Electric Supercar; Nat Geo Plans 80% Emissions Cut; U.S. Chamber Addresses Climate Critics
Oxygen of Green Table It’s a table, it’s an air cleaner, it’s an indoor soccer field of sorts. This cool concept for a table introduces plants into your home that absorb CO2 [...]
The Daily Five: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009
Telephone booths into EV charging stations; Wind provides 50% of power; IKEA EV; Nuclear power renewable?; Maple trees making electricity
Telephone booths get a green makeover as EV charging stations The Spanish government’s plan would see 546 new electric car charging stations built in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville using old telephone booths. Its thought that these [...]
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: 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: Friday, 12 June, 2009
Using bacteria to clean the air; No-charge cellphones; Climate change cutting into wind power; Water droplet resort creates H2O out of thin air; Unused computer power to study climate change.
Bio-Reaction Industries has come up with a way to clean the air using bacteria. The system relies on microbes to eat carbon-based molecules. Air containing VOC’s [...]
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