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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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- 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
- Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?
- Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?Never terribly excited by it.As one of the many alternatives we could come up with, this one never really excited me. Sure it's cool to be able to create fuel in our own nation, but I think other alternatives hold more promise.That's the problem with...
- Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, deflation, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web traffic
- Apple, Mozilla gain ground on Microsoft for Web trafficOther figures of note...Windows XP 66.31% Windows Vista 20.45% MacIntel 6.51% Mac OS 2.35% Windows 2000 1.56% Linux 0.83% Windows NT 0.77% Nice to put things in perspective, eh? :)Interesting that Windows is slowly losing market share.If that keeps up, Windows could...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Web Traffic, Mozilla Corp., PC
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Science, research and the politics of grantmanship
- Seems that science is like every other human endeavor. It's highly political. A study done among scientists asking for money from the National Institute of Health shows blunt political caluclation can alter both the language of the grant application...and the actual subject of the study being...
- Tags: Scientist, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Collision course for American-owned car makers
- America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...
- Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Some serious research into gasoline-free transport
- There's an institute in Davis, California, dedicated to studying what works and what doesn't work when it comes to people moving around. Headed by Dr. Dan Sperling the faculty and research staff have delved into all manner of transit modes, energy sources, etc. They don't have Washington lobbyists...
- Tags: Vehicle, Plug-in, PHEV, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Toward more efficient fuel cells?
- Toward more efficient fuel cells?If prior efficiencywas 1x10^-15, then an improvement of 100 million times is still meaningless.1000 posts!Congrats :).....Face it you and your kind are a dying breed. The world is moving forward with alternatives to oil... enjoy being a dinosaur... we know what happened to them. ]:)Yes, we...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them
- Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate themAirline fares are too lowEver since deregulation, airlines have allowed themselves to be sucked into a ridiculous, never ending price war.As a result, they've been forced to fly at max capacity just to break even on any given flight. That need...
- Tags: FUEL PRICES, airline fare, oil, fare, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
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