Subtitle: But Very Little Accountability
UN Dispatch, On Day One, and Grist “are partnering to discuss ideas the next president can adopt to take on climate change.” As After Gutenberg readers can tell you, such discussion is critical if we are to make any effort to save life on the planet as we know it and get off coal.
Centralized power production in the United States and throughout the world historically has used a “sledgehammer” approach to power production, i.e., two-thirds of the energy consumed to create electricity is lost in the conversion process. And, the ongoing thinking would seem to be, “No matter. We just will blow the tops off some more mountains and keep on polluting the atmosphere with Green House Gases.”
“It’s gone before you even knew it was there: As energy is unlocked from fuels at power plants, two-thirds of the energy consumed to create electricity is lost.”
The introduction to the discussion made only indi...
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SAN DIEGO–With so many large organizations putting solar panels on their roofs, you would think that it’s because solar power is cheaper than the grid. But a closer look shows that it’s not that simple. The California Center for Sustainable Energy organized a corporate solar tour on Monday, …... more
Sharp to Introduce 2nd Generation Thin Film Solar Cells in U.S.
Integrated Home Systems Leonardo ENERGY has launched a new online resource concerning the automation of modern homes for electrical contractors and educational bodies.
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WESTON, FL (MARKET WIRE) Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (OTCBB: CLTH), Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA) and Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AVR).... more
EcoCar From: jcwinnie.biz Post Date: 2008-05-22 10:20:33
Subtitle: The Next “Rigged” Competition from DOE and GM
As Doug Korthof can attest1, CARB the (California Air Resources Board) has been a battleground for greater accommodation of electric vehicles recently. While this blog ignored for the most part what seemed to be petty politics, we now learn about a corollary to the in-fighting.
It would seem that the Department of Energy continues to enable General Motors engineers to remain dependent upon an ICE paradigm, despite suc... more
MSU (Mississippi State University) earned top honors in the GM and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Challenge X student engineering competition. This was the second consecutive year that the MSU team took first place.
“The Mississippi State team designed a through-the-road parallel hybrid electric vehicle powered by a 1.9L GM direct injection turbo diesel engine fueled by biodiesel (B20). It used a GM F40 6-speed manual transmission and a Johnson Controls 300V NiM... more
Jeff Gray1 has bad news from River City (actually Toronto, but I like being overly dramatic). But, the all too familiar news is bad for Johnson City because the BAE Systems plant involved in production / testing of components for the Orion buses is right around the corner.
The popular Orion serial hybrid bus is a favorite After Gutenberg subject.
All too familiar because the batteries died earlier than expected in my electric car. On the other hand, the Toronto Transit Commission paid ... more
Re-blog of an announcement from Costa:
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is launching a new peer-reviewed journal in Fall 2008, The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. It will be online-only with rapid publication time.
Topic Areas include:
Bioenergy – bioreactions and bioengineering
Geothermal energy – geysers, heat pumps, and novel devices
Marine and hydroelectric energy – waves, tides, and dams
Nuclear energy – fission and fusion
Solar energy &#... more
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