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He's So Transparent Prince Charles appears as hologram to speak in Abu Dhabi		22 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 22 Jan 2008 Prince Charles recently spoke to political leaders at the World Future energy summit in Abu Dhabi. But swallow your cries of jet-setting hypocrisy: Chas appeared as a hologram. "Scientists are now saying that the problem of climate change is now so grave and so urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop, and reverse greenhouse-gas emissions," said the virtual prince. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, innovation, news (all these topics)

Search and Deploy Google announces expansion of philanthropic goals beyond alternative energy		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:55 AM on 18 Jan 2008 Google has announced it's expanding the goals of its philanthropic arm, Google.org, beyond alternative energy to include fighting disease, averting pandemics and other mass crises, and alleviating poverty in the developing world. Along with the expansion of its mission, Google.org announced some of the recipients of the first round of grants and investments yesterday, t ...
Topics: business, innovation, news (all these topics)

The Fleiss is right Former Hollywood madam to open wind-powered brothel	Sarah van Schagen	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Heidi Fleiss. Ten things I didn't know about former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss until I read this awesome Elle story: She's a vegetarian. She calls herself a tree hugger. She owns 24 parrots. She runs a laundromat called Dirty Laundry in Pahrump, Nev. (Pahrump!) Her next business venture will be wind-powered. It will be a brothel. For women. (There go the blow-job jokes.) Called the Stud Farm. Where clients can "get a m ...
Topics: business, celebrity, energy, innovation, sex, wind power (all these topics)

Major advance in plug-in hybrid design Watch CBS this Saturday for breaking electric-car news	Joseph Romm	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I was just interviewed by CBS for a possible story on plug-in hybrids on Monday. You should tune in to CBS evening news Saturday for the first coverage of what I believe is a major advance in plug-ins -- a car I test drove a few weeks back and will be free to write about here Monday. The New York Times will probably be doing a print story on the car Sunday, which I'll link to. Then CBS may do another story, which is where I would come in. This hybrid technology ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, TV (all these topics)

But what about the less attractive countries? Swedish company to warm buildings using body heat	Adam Browning	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The legendary hotness of Swedes is now useful for more than getting dates. Calls to the French Embassy about plans for using the famous Gallic 'icy superciliousness' for air conditioning were not returned by press time.
Topics: business, energy, innovation, renewable energy, Sweden (all these topics)

Backin' the saddle again British supermarket expands bike-trailer program	Katharine Wroth	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bike to store. Pick up free bike trailer. Fill trailer with groceries. Hitch it up and ride home. Return trailer within three days. That's the dreamy concept at the Waitrose supermarket chain in Jolly Olde Englande, where the free-trailer scheme is being tried out at a handful of stores. Says a department manager, 'There are 60 to 70 bikes outside the shop every lunchtime, so there's a definite market for it. If we can encourage just a few people to cycle rather tha ...
Topics: bikes, consumerism, green living, innovation, shopping, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The future is ... less far in the future New nanoantennas capture sun's energy 24-7; are cheap; are not yet for sale	David Roberts	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Via SolveClimate, the latest whiz-bang new gonna-change-the-world solar technology: nanoantennas! They harvest the sun's energy even at night! They're cheap "as inexpensive carpet"! They're printed on thin, flexible sheets! They're ... in a lab somewhere. Here's hoping.
Topics: energy, innovation, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, tech (all these topics)

For reals? Toshiba said to have developed mini nuclear reactor	Sarah K. Burkhalter	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Says Next Energy News: Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail- ...
Topics: business, energy, innovation, Japan, nuclear power (all these topics)

The year ahead What will it take to make 2008 great?	Joseph Romm	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following guest post is by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), originally published on Climate Progress. He is the co-author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. ----- Now that our New Year's Eve party hats are put away, it's time to look to the next year in the battle against global warming. In the year 2007, some good things did indeed happen on this front. Measures significantly improving car mileage standards and promoting the growth of re ...
Topics: brilliance, carbon trading, climate, energy, George Bush, green living, innovation, politics, tech (all these topics)

Send this to your local government and public works department Finally, something to do with all the damn asphalt	JMG	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This sounds like a great idea! Seems like every school has a ginormous parking lot, as does every city and county building -- and think of the asphalt in residential streets.
Topics: business, energy, innovation, Netherlands, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Moving Kite Along Cargo ship to use massive kite-like sail on trans-Atlantic voyage		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A huge cargo ship is set to cross the Atlantic Ocean this month with some help from a massive kite-like sail that could offset up to 15 percent of its fuel use on the journey. It's hardly a return to purely wind-powered shipping, but it's a start for the hugely polluting maritime shipping industry. "This is a serious attempt to reduce bunker [fuel] costs and polluting emissi ...
Topics: innovation, news, wind power (all these topics)

Life Is Like a Fuel Tank of Chocolates British duo's carbon-negative road trip fueled by chocolate		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 21 Dec 2007 This weekend, while you're finishing up the last of the chocolates in your advent calendar -- oh admit it, you ate them all already -- Britons Andy Pag and John Grimshaw will be rolling to the end of a chocolate-fueled road trip. The duo claim that their trip from Poole, England through the Sahara desert to Timbuktu, Mali, will be the world's first carbon-negative ...
Topics: biofuels, carbon neutral, climate, energy, innovation, news (all these topics)

Don't tell Canis!	JMG	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is one of those stories where you don't know whether to be hopeful or depressed after reading it. Like drug addicts who will try snorting every powder in the house, we seem to be willing to subject any substance on the planet to the real acid test of our age: Will it help us keep carburbia going?
Topics: innovation, scientific research, biofuels, energy (all these topics)

Mission to MARS Innovator patents floating wind turbine		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:55 PM on 10 Dec 2007 Traditional wind turbines have gotten a bad rap from NIMBY folk and bird advocates, but innovator Mac Brown thinks he can sway the haters. Meet the Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS), a 100-foot-wide, helium-filled turbine tethered to the earth by a copper cable. Hovering at 1,000 feet, MARS is capable of producing 10 kilowatts of energy. "Picture a spinning Goodyear blimp," says Brown. The government ...
Topics: energy, innovation, news, wind power (all these topics)

Mirror, Mirror, on the Sand Solar project in African desert could supply clean energy to Europe		04 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:12 PM on 04 Dec 2007 A string of gigantic solar generators in the northern African desert could cleanly supply one-sixth of Europe's electricity needs, say backers of a project called Desertec. The project relies on concentrated solar power, in which giant mirrors focus the sun's rays on pillars filled with water, creating steam, which drives turbines, which generate electricity. In the ...
Topics: Africa, energy, European Union, innovation, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Plug-in reality check The debate on plug-ins begins	biodiversivist	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Alan Durning's article makes a lot of good points about the need to do more than just improve the efficiency of our personal transport. It's a great article, but it also contains a few inaccuracies that I feel obligated to clear up before the global warming deniers (among others) try to use them. I can tell from the comments on Alan's post that some readers are under the mistaken impression that his conclusions are a reflection of the EPRI/NRDC (PDF) report cited, but ...
Topics: cars, tech, Prius, hybrids, energy, innovation, electric vehicles (all these topics)

Money, meet mouth How one group is convincing U.S. colleges to invest responsibly	Katharine Wroth	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
It doesn't take long to gauge the depths of Morgan Simon's passion: you can hear it in her voice. Or what's left of her voice, anyway. The first time I spoke with the activist, she apologized for being hoarse -- a recent presentation at Grinnell College had taken its toll, she explained. But the next two times I caught up with her, the hoarseness was still there. It turns out Simon spends much of her time traveling the U.S., explaining to college students, administra ...
Topics: innovation, grassroots activism, education, campus activism (all these topics)

Who will reincarnate the electric car? Automakers want to delay the transition to electric vehicles	Joseph Romm	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Marc Geller, who blogs at Plugs and Cars, serves on the board of directors of the Electric Auto Association, cofounded Plug In America and DontCrush.com, and appeared in Who Killed The Electric Car. ----- The IEEE Spectrum Magazine for November 2007 touts on its cover: 'Battery or Fuel-Cell Cars? A California Cabal Will Decide.' Interesting choice of headlines. Surely a strong argument can be made that something approaching a caba ...
Topics: business, consumerism, hybrids, cars, energy, electric vehicles, innovation, tech (all these topics)

Zero to sixty in less than one second ... and vice-versa Electric motorcycle delivers man to side of van	biodiversivist	11 Nov 2007	Gristmill
'I'm the owner, not the driver, so this is going to be interesting to say the least.' Indeed: Note the woman straddling the Killacycle. Note, shortly thereafter, the Killacycle embedded in the side of the van. Middle-aged men should not be driving Killacycles. May you have a full and speedy recovery, Bill. As for my A123 batteries, they just crossed the 1500 mile mark with no detectable performance loss. I'm also getting pretty good at popping wheelies.
Topics: tech, innovation (all these topics)

Portland of the Fee Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:07 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon's efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who go above and beyond, with cons ...
Topics: carbon tax, energy, energy efficiency, green building, innovation, news, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Pick me! Pick me! 100 households to test out plug-in hybrid Pruises in California	Adam Browning	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
UC Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies and AAA are looking for 100 households willing to drive their plug-in hybrids. I nominate myself for the sacrifice. The more batteries we have plugged into the grid, the more renewable energy we'll get on the grid. I would say I can't wait to buy one of these commercially, but if you read the sad details from Felix at CalCars, you'll see that's exactly what I am going to have to do. It appears Honda is out, Toyota is re ...
Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, Prius (all these topics)

Sun Rise Berkeley, Calif., suggests innovative solar scheme		26 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:30 PM on 26 Oct 2007 The Berkeley, Calif., city council will soon vote on an innovative scheme to front the cost of solar panels to homeowners, who would pay the city back over 20 years as a property tax add-on. The amount to be paid back would be roughly what homeowners would save on electric bills by being sun-powered. "This plan could be our most important contribution to fighting global warming," says Berkeley ...
Topics: California, energy, innovation, news, placemaking, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Mmm ... salt ... Kosher salt from recycled batteries	Kristina & Jason Makansi	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This just in from the St. Louis Business Journal: 'Salt extracted from batteries earns kosher approval.' Details below:St. Louis-based The Doe Run Co. received kosher approval for its sodium sulfate, a salt commonly used in the manufacturing of starch, which it extracts from the recycling of lead-acid batteries, the company said Tuesday. 'Though none of the sodium sulfate we produce is contained in food, it is used in making an industrial, corn-based s ...
Topics: innovation, recycling (all these topics)

Happy Decouple States adopt decoupling plans to encourage energy efficiency		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 02 Oct 2007 It's a scheme that turns the traditional business model on its head: power companies can make more money by selling less power. Under "decoupling" plans, state regulators give incentive payments to electric utilities that encourage energy efficiency by their customers. "Before there was almost a disincentive to go hard at efficiency because we weren't recovering our fixed ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, innovation, news (all these topics)

Solar Power 2007 Increasingly popular solar power conference mirrors growth in the industry	Adam Browning	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The heart and soul of the world's solar industry is gathered this week in Long Beach for the annual SEPA/SEIA solar conference. Five years ago, this conference drew 200 people to a dingy hotel ballroom in Reno. This year, it's sold out the Long Beach Convention Center, and you can't get a hotel room for love or money within a 20-mile radius. It's like the Super Bowl is in town. Solar has come a long way -- and there's a lot of things to thank for what's brought t ...
Topics: energy, innovation, progress, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

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