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Colin Murray

Juicing up: Hong Kong transport goes electric - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...g-kong-transport-goes-electric

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    BBC News presents a video on the expansion of Hong Kong's electrical vehicle movement. As one of the worlds densest urban population's, a proven implementation of successful electrical car program and infrastructure could prove replicable.
Joe ONeill

German Scientists Create Lithium Ion Battery that Can Charge an Electric Car for 27 Yea... - 2 views

http://inhabitat.com/german-scientists-create-lithium-ion-battery-that-can-charge-an-electric-car-for-27-years/ A German scientist has discovered a way to extend the longevity of an electric car b...

green design battery lithium ion

started by Joe ONeill on 10 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
lsutter888

The Future of Cars Could Be Solar - 0 views

www.renewableenergyworld.com/...re-of-cars-could-be-solar.html

solar car# electric

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  • lsutter888 on 30 Nov 16
     
    A brief overview of the possibility of more solar-powered automobiles in the near future due to the decreasing prices of solar and electric vehicles and the advancement in efficiency. An easy-read site which briefly explains the various types of electric cars available to consumers. It also maps the progress of the automobile companies involved in solar and electric cars.
ghiser1

Wind Power - 1 views

Here is an article on wind power. It discusses the cost effectiveness and lack of harmful pollutants that other forms of energy produce. Many other countries are already on board with this and ut...

green sustainability energy design technology

started by ghiser1 on 23 Apr 15 no follow-up yet
currahee6r

Harley-Davidson rolls out electric motorcycle - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...10974115

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  • currahee6r on 24 Apr 16
     
    I absolutely love the idea of the electric motorcycle and truly see it as the way of the future given the ever growing amount of vehicles on the road as well as the continuous increase in fossil fuels. As much as I love my little Harley Sportster, I would trade it for an electric version in a second.
John Crowley

The Kilowatt / "Kill-A-Watt" Meter - P3's Electricity Usage Monitor - 0 views

www.degreedays.net/kill-a-watt-meter

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  • John Crowley on 07 Feb 13
     
    Kill-A-Watt's are a good tool to determine what appliances in your house are using the most energy. It is also a good tool to determine what appliances are using electricity when OFF.
Anna Hakim

Tesla Motors | Premium Electric Vehicles - 1 views

www.teslamotors.com/en_CA

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  • Anna Hakim on 09 Feb 14
     
    This is actually an amazing company with the vision of creating sustainable solar electric cars. I have a friend who owns their roadster and it is amazing to ride in. The cars are VERY expensive now but I am hoping they will be more affordable in the future. The company's CEO is Elon Musk, http://elonmusk.com/ who I believe is a very interesting character in the "Green" world.
Colin Murray

LED bulbs: The end of the lightbulb as we know it? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...20314-the-end-of-the-lightbulb

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    Not only is it important to find and implement new sources of abundant and hopefully renewable energy sources, it's necessary to conserve what is being produced. Electricity for light has long been massively inefficient. Our incandescent lightbulbs are in essence the same technology Edison introduced. LEDs are the next wave of electrical lighting, improving in lumen output, spectrum of light, and probably most important for its success, cost.
John Crowley

HowStuffWorks "How Smart Power Strips Work" - 0 views

science.howstuffworks.com/...smart-power-strip.htm

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  • John Crowley on 07 Feb 13
     
    Using smart power strips can help save electricity by turning off devices that don't need to be on. Good example: when your computer is turned off, so should your printer and speakers plugged into it!
jefffinck

Siting analysis of farm-based centralized anaerobic digester systems for distributed ge... - 0 views

www.sciencedirect.com.silk.library.umass.edu/...S0961953405000164

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  • jefffinck on 21 Apr 16
     
    This paper addresses anaerobic digesters (ADs) installations on livestock farms to use animal manure as a biomass resource for both economic value and environmental benefit. Capturing biogas created naturally from animal waste before it escapes to do harm to the environment and using the gas as a fuel to produce electric power. Either to be used to power the farm itself or integrated into the local electric grid.
Anna Hakim

Photovoltaics | Department of Energy - 1 views

energy.gov/...photovoltaics

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  • Anna Hakim on 04 May 14
     
    I found the Sunshot video on this website from the U.S. Department of Energy encouraging. The website explains, "...the SunShot Initiative, which seeks to make solar electricity cost-competitive with other sources of energy by 2020."
ghiser1

Deep Litter Method - 3 views

If you have chickens, you might be interested in this. My wife and I live in northern Michigan where the temperatures can reach as low as -25 in the winter. We were having a hard time keeping our...

green sustainability energy recycling

started by ghiser1 on 10 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
currahee6r

Who Killed the Electric Car? - 2 views

www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

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shared by currahee6r on 24 Apr 16 - Cached
  • currahee6r on 24 Apr 16
     
    It bothers me greatly that so many people are completely unaware of the technology that was available in regards to electric cars in the late 90's. It's as if the media has short term memory loss concerning this matter as well.
Colin Murray

Recycling rubbish to create electricity in Denmark - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...8-waste-powers-want-in-denmark

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    A really cool video of how Denmark, one of Scandinavia, and Europe's smallest countries is making the best of a trashy situation. On site visits give excellent insight into Denmark's power producing, rubbish incineration program.
Joe ONeill

The SolePower Harvests Energy from Walking to Charge Your Gadgets Read more: The SoleP... - 0 views

http://inhabitat.com/the-solepower-harvests-energy-from-walking-to-charge-your-gadgets/ According to Inhabitat, a new technology allows walkers to generate energy through a energy-storing shoe sol...

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started by Joe ONeill on 19 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
James Hannemann

Off-the-grid communities: 5 places carving a sustainable path | MNN - Mother Nature Net... - 0 views

www.mnn.com/...ces-carving-a-sustainable-path

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  • Some off-the-grid communities are little more than subdivisions beyond the reach of any power company, where homeowners fend for themselves. Some off-the-grid communities take the intentional community approach, a gathering of like-minded residents living in a cooperative manner (and if you think that sounds like a commune, well, you’d be right).
  • Emerald Earth This intentional community on 189 acres Mendocino County near Boonville, Calif., was founded in 1989. The dozen or so people living here share a common house with a main kitchen, eating and meeting areas and shower. There is also a bathhouse/greenhouse with a sauna, showers and garden greenhouse. There are four small cabins heated by passive solar and wood stoves. Solar panels and a gas generator provide electricity. Use of composting outhouses means there is no need for a septic system.
  • Joe ONeill on 17 Jun 13
     
    I feel like such communities are going to be a necessary and vital part of the future. I wonder if everyone will be living in communities like these in say 100 years?
pauline hannemann

Ambitious solar energy system in Nevada reaches new milestone - 1 views

www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/...859986

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  • Molten salt is used as an energy transfer and distribution medium for the project. The concentrated sunlight is used to heat the molten salt from 500 degrees Fahrenheit to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The salt then moves through a series of alloy tubes and is used to set water supplies to boil. The steam created is used to power turbines that generate electrical power. SolarReserve notes that this is one of the most efficient ways to make use of solar energy.
  • pauline hannemann on 15 Apr 13
     
    I was not aware of this effort but found it interesting. Let me know what you think!
James Hannemann

Wastesavers - About Us - 0 views

www.wastesavers.co.uk/index.php

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  • Wastesavers began life in 1986 as an environmental, interest group promoting the importance of reuse and recycling. In the mid 90’s it became more proactive and began picking up old newspapers from peoples doorsteps for recycling, and hand sorting these at the local paper mill. In 1995 Wastesavers collected and recycled 22 tonnes of paper. Today Wastesavers recycles more than 15,000 tonnes of material a year and can’t imagine hand sorting the 5000 tonnes of paper it collects! That’s more than 85,000 trees per year! Progress has certainly been made in Newport with residents now receiving a weekly kerbside recycling collection of not just paper, but cans, plastics, glass, textiles, mobile phones and toner cartridges as well food waste and small electrical items.
Brian Jupina

Possible Cheap Sustainable Energy - 0 views

www.suncatalytix.com/news.html

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  • Brian Jupina on 08 Feb 13
     
    Dr. Nocera an M.I.T. Professor creates a sustainable energy source using sunlight to split hydrogen and oxygen the can be fed into fuel cells to make electricity
crystal franciosi

The role agriculture may play in reducing greenhouse gases - 0 views

www.ers.usda.gov/...eb15.aspx

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  • crystal franciosi on 01 Nov 12
     
    This is a very interesting article from the USDA which describes ways in which farmers can help reduce GH gases. Things such as changing the feed for farm stock and capturing the methane produced from the manure and converting it into electricity..
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