Filed under: Hybrid, Hydrogen, Santa Monica Alt Car ExpoThe annual Alt Car Expo is coming up this weekend at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and Vision Industries will be on hand to display its Tyrano semi tractor. This is no typical … [Read more...]
AltCar 2009: Vision Industries to display fuel cell truck at Santa Monica
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Turning Wine into Hydrogen May Help Wineries in Sustainability
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Turning water into wine is said to be a miracle, but how about turning wine (or at least wine waste) into hydrogen? Penn State University’s Dr. Bruce Logan is working with a Napa Valley winery (the Napa Wine Company) to turn their wine pulp and … [Read more...]
The Strategic Imperative for the U.S. Senate to Pass an Effective Energy Bill
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The United States Senate possesses the key to address the most critical national security issue that the country presently faces. Will the Senate act decisively and without delay to protect our vital national interests or will it dither as Iran … [Read more...]
Sens. Kerry & Boxer Introduce Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
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U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, today introduced the Kerry-Boxer legislation to create clean energy jobs, reduce … [Read more...]
Zipcar iPhone App Makes Car-Sharing Even Better (as Long as You Don’t Abuse Remote Honking)
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Images: Zipcar Car-Sharing Goes High-Tech Car-sharing is a great way to have most of the benefits or owning a car without most of the downsides. Zipcar, one of the heavy-hitters of the car-sharing world, has released a new iPhone and iPod Touch free … [Read more...]
Apple’s Tablet to Take Over Textbooks, Magazines, Newspapers
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Photo via Engadget So Kindle seems to be bombing out among university students as a replacement for textbooks, at least in one trial run. But we mention that the Tablet from Apple could be a better solution since it is more interactive, and more … [Read more...]
Clearing Space Junk from Earth’s Orbit By Launching Water At It?
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Photo credit NASA via Discovery News Of all the strange ideas I've heard, this tops the list. The amount of catalogued space debris within our planet's orbit increased by nearly 50% since 2007, so DARPA wants to gather ideas for how to clear space … [Read more...]
Sound Machines Could Help Monitor Health of Coral Reefs
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An EAR on the reef in Kimbe Bay. Credit: Mark Eakin, NOAA via Nature Conservancy Putting EARs in the water among the bustling life of coral reefs could help us monitor the health of coral reefs around the worlds. EAR is an Ecological Acoustic … [Read more...]
Better, or Beta?
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Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA My Quick Clean Energy Tracking Portfolio has produced unexpected out-performance. Is it because of high beta (β) in a rising market? I recently asked why two portfolios which I had designed to track green energy … [Read more...]
The Electric Car’s Song
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I heard this is a little old, but it fits into GreenOptimistic's subjects, and, there sure are people who haven't seen it. Read more.... … [Read more...]