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Casey Agena

Sopogy thrives by thinking biga - 0 views

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    From its modest headquarters in an industrial area near Honolulu Airport, homegrown high-tech company Sopogy Inc. is taking on some of the world's biggest names in renewable energy. Launched in 2002 by local entrepreneur Darren Kimura, Sopogy has leveraged its expertise in the field of concentrated solar power to win contracts on the mainland and across the globe. Among its competitors are Siemens AG, a German conglomerate with a market capitalization of $116 billion, and Spain's Abengoa SA, another multibillion-dollar firm.
Chai Reddy

Electric Avenue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the White House is standing behind a goal that could genuinely transform the nation’s automotive fleet: putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
  • But many of the electric vehicles that will count toward President Obama’s goal won’t run on electricity alone. They will combine batteries, electric motors and internal-combustion engines to use as little gasoline as possible while still doing everything Americans expect their cars to do. Electrification is not an all-or-nothing proposition
  • Department of Transportation statistics show that 78 percent of Americans commute 40 miles or fewer a day, so most people who drive a Volt won’t need to burn any gas on a normal day.
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  • Obama administration already supports incentives to encourage drivers to buy electric cars, and it has devoted $2.4 billion in stimulus money to the development of a domestic electric-car industry.
  • existing $7,500 tax credit
  • If we gut domestic clean-energy research, scientists in China or Germany or Japan will finish this work. But it would be far better to stick with the program we’ve begun — financing research into better batteries while deploying vehicles that replace gasoline with electricity as much as possible — and prove that when it comes to energy, America can, in fact, learn from its mistakes.
Casey Agena

Oahu company turns eucalyptus trees into energy - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL Home - 0 views

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    A company that burns coal for power at Campbell Industrial Park is now experimenting with an additive. On Sunday, AES Hawaii Inc. began mixing chips from eucalyptus trees with its coal.
Chai Reddy

Bank of America rooftop solar project is world's biggest - Jun. 22, 2011 - 1 views

  • The total cost of the project is $2.6 billion, and will be financed by the private sector over a four year period. The loan guarantee -- made through the Department of Energy -- means the government is on the hook for part of the project's costs should it fail.
  • estimates the solar installations will result in 733 megawatts of solar energy production. That's about half the size of a nuclear reactor, or enough energy to power around 100,000 homes.
Intesab Husain

Ceiling Mount PIR Occupancy Sensor For Office Cabin And Office Rooms | PAMMVI - 0 views

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    Steinel German quality 230v 50Hz PIR occupancy sensor and presence detector for office cabins and rooms
Intesab Husain

Ultrasonic Motion Detector And PIR Motion Sensor For Car Parking Area And Garage | PAMMVI - 0 views

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    Ceiling mount 360° ultrasonic motion detector and PIR motion sensor for car parking area and garage lighting control
Intesab Husain

High Ceiling Mount PIR Motion Detector For Factory Godown and Warehouse | PAMMVI - 0 views

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    230v 50Hz 360° High Ceiling mount Passive Infrared PIR motion detector for factory godown and warehouse lighting control
Intesab Husain

Outdoor Wall Mount PIR Motion Sensor Halogen Light - Security And Intruder Detection | ... - 0 views

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    Steinel German quality 230v 50Hz 180° outdoor wall mount PIR motion sensor halogen light for security and surveillance of private, commercial and industrial buildings
Casey Agena

Lockheed gets additional $4.4M for Hawaii OTEC plant - 0 views

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    Lockheed Martin Corp., which plans to build a Hawaii electrical plant that produces energy by exploiting ocean temperature differences, said it has received another $4.4 million in federal grants to help advance the commercialization of the technology.
Casey Agena

Fuel cells popping up in California - 0 views

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    An office park in Alhambra is about to start drawing a quarter of its electricity from the devices. It joins commercial properties in more than 40 cities statewide.
Casey Agena

Amazing Dutch Bike Path Embedded With Solar Panels - 0 views

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    What could make bike riding even more efficient? How about a bike path embedded with solar panels to produce clean energy while encouraging people to get on their bikes? The town of Krommenie in the Netherlands, just north of Amsterdam, will be receiving the SolaRoad bike path, scheduled to open in 2012.
Casey Agena

HECO pursues palm oil - 0 views

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    Hawaiian Electric Co. engineers knew they were venturing into the unknown when company executives tasked them with finding out whether one of the utility's 40-year-old petroleum-fired steam generating units could run on crude palm oil.
Casey Agena

GE Acquires Tall Turbine Tech From Wind Tower Systems - 0 views

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    General Electric (GE, NYSE: GE) announced today that it acquired technology from Wind Tower Systems, that can enable the company to build and ship wind energy equipment that's more efficient, taller and longer than what it offers now.
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