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- Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving
- At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, outlines the difficulties in finding places to plug in rechargeable cars and balancing the grid, once automakers release their new lines of plug-in vehicles. He introduces his company's networked "Smarlet" system, which that monitors...
- Tags: Plug-in, electric, car, green, fuel alternatives, hybrid, environment, grid
- Videos 2008-12-05
- Is algae the next gas alternative?
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bill Green of Vantage Point Venture Partners, and moderator Awais Khan of KPMG discuss current and future uses for algae. Green says that while algae can be used to produce fuel, it is currently not sustainable on...
- Tags: Steve Jurvetson, AlwaysOn Summit, stanford, fuel alternatives
- Videos 2008-07-28
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- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- What's a brick?
- Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...
- Tags: Brick, CalStar, ASTM STANDARDS Here, Branding, Blogging, Manufacturing, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site
- Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.RE: GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear siteI do not worry, Israel does not miss around and will take care of it if they feel it is a threat, they have done it before and i am sure they will do it again. With or...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Iranian nuclear site, GeoEye, nuclear site, Deleted
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?
- "Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...
- Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-20
- Windmills stir up opposition
- Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future
- Nothing but lies...When will this lie stop, no different than Lenin quoted, if you tell a lie enough it becomes the truth.There is NO evidence of this and it is ludicrous that everything will be electric. The power grid cannot even support what we have now, so now it is...
- Tags: Obama, global warming, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions
- Nothing new!I've had similar experiences with United.We tried to go from Baltimore to Florida...http://jeffstravellog.blogspot.com/2008/12/27-december-2008-miami-florida-nope.htmlThen we tried again the next day...http://jeffstravellog.blogspot.com/2009/01/28-december-2008-islamorada-florida-for.htmlNever had issues like this with any other airlines.A Contrary ViewWow, United really pulled your chain, as indicated by your investment in your extensive post. You cite some sad cases of...
- Tags: United Airlines, Customers Ltd., United Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Coal: more on the fall-out
- Coal: more on the fall-outCoal is not perfect......but right now it is what we have. I used to live down there in SW Colorado, and have seen first hand the effects of living near large coal fired power plants. I used to fish in those lakes, until the...
- Tags: breeder
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?It is too early to say, there are a lot of issues to solveA hydrogen economy is still just a dream on a sheet of paper. Making this a reality is probably 10 to 20 years away, given that we don't find a better...
- Tags: Hydrogen car, Obama, hydrogen economy, Hydrogen Production, Diesel Engine, hydrogen, hydrogen car, car
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energyBiofuel is not the answerThe more corn or sugar of whatever you use to make fuel the more it will dirve up food prices. After that you will have large areas of previously unsuitable land used for BF crops which will require huge irrigation...
- Tags: alternative energy, Oboma
- Discussion threads 2009-05-09
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy
- To change,or simnply more of the same without all that pesky government intervention. To have, or to have not. That seems to be the question. There's now a draft of new federal requirement for alternative energy. And there is a proposed push toward biofuels....
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Biofuel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)
- People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...
- Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?
- Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?FixedThanks for editing ;)RE: Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?[i]The P.U.M.A. prototype can go 25 mph to 35 mph on one charge.[/i]Did you mean 25 to 35 miles? If so, what is it's top speed?Looks very...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Segway, General Motors Corp., tricked-out
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Give us more alcohol
- Give us more alcoholThe only use for alcohol in gasoline.......is a very small amount to prevent gasoline freezing in those area which have real winters, like the Northeast. Alcohol is the main ingredient in Dry Gas, which costs.Otherwise, as stated above, alcohol does more damage to a gasoline engine than...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Ethanol, alcohol, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2009-03-07
- America's lag-time in alternative energy
- I just blogged about San Francisco applying for a permit to build an offshore wave farm to generate electricity. That's but the second step after deciding to try this tech. It's many more steps before anything is actually placed in the Pacific. And this is San Francisco, positioned next...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Portugal, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- The coal war heats up
- The coal war heats upA problemA problem with the green initiatives is that they do not account for the environmental damage companies outside the US do while producing their products. It's easy to pick on the local guys because their processes are visible. This in turn creates an unlevel playing...
- Tags: coal, gasoline, USSR Russia
- Discussion threads 2009-02-15
- Green auto racing? Are they kidding?
- Green auto racing? Are they kidding?shut down sports thenThose lights at outdoor arenas all over the world, there must be hundreds of thousands of them, and the miles driven to get there? - and what about TV sets we watch events on, or TVs in general? and PCs, what...
- Tags: NASCAR, ALMS, car, transportation
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
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