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If green is the new black, then 100 MPG is new green

Images of the IDEA, plug-in utility vehicle. Courtesy Bright Automotive. And today a car rolled into the heart of the beast, right up to Capitol Hill amidst all that government posturing and power. And this car's makers say THIS IS THE FIRST 100 MPG CAR...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Indiana, Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle, Plug-in, Bright Automotive, Envision Solar, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-21

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Advances in TREKnology

Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, Corporate communications, Geordi, computer, Kirk

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Park over there, under that solar tree

It seems sort of counter-intuitive that you could derive shade from a solar structure, but Envision Solar International has developed something it calls the Solar Tree. Here's a picture: The technology is being targeted at buildings with big parking lots, which...

Tags: Installation, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-30

If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?

This week I received some flack from readers for favoring Intel's Classmate PC distribution model over OLPC's, not just because I'm apparently a Wintel devotee despite my advocacy and daily use of Linux, but also because of the power consumption differences between the two models. One reader wrote: ...

Tags: Power Consumption, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green

Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and greenNice!Good to see people are looking ahead and being pro-active in moving the United States into the 21st century with advanced power and propulsion systems that ARE NOT 100% reliant on fossil fuels! ]:)RE: Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and...

Tags: solar parking lot, parking lot

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

Solar parking lots, the specs

This goes with the Envision CEO interview story. First: the Kyocera solar grove canopy above their San Diego headquarters parking lot: SYSTEM SIZE:235 kW AC CEC279 kW Solar Modules: 1400 KC-187GS200 KC-88CGSI Inverters: 2 SMA American Sunny Central SC125U Batteries:None Charge Controllers: None...

Tags: Colorado, Mph, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Envision a solar parking lot: cool, clean and green

Solar Trees. Solar Groves. The value of shade in the future economy. Bio-mimicry. My little brain was racing to absorb all the solar heat coming through the phone. I spent nearly an hour talking with Robert Noble. Trained as an architect, he's...

Tags: Acre, Kyocera Wireless Corp., Tree, Plug-in, Robert Noble, Envision, NREL, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-07

Air and ground robots to collaborate in space

Today's discoveries about our solar system are done by using robotic devices such as remote-sensing orbiters, probes, landers and rovers. But space missions usually rely on very few instruments. If one is lost, the mission is almost over -- and has failed. But now, a team of scientists from the...

Tags: California Institute of Technology, spacecraft

Blog posts 2005-10-22