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GrowFX (exe): GrowFX - a new system of modeling and animating plants for 3D Studio Max. Now you can recreate digitally a lifelike 3D model of any plant, from grass and trees to woodland using a refreshingly simple interface and an essential set of parameters that you can set up yourself. GrowFX...; Tags: 3D, Animation, Plant, Exlevel, GrowFX; Software downloads 2008-07-21
More nucs is good nucs? British PM thinks so: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has gone nuclear. In fact, eight times he intends to go nuclear according to his latest energy message to the British people. With such leadership it seems likely there'll be some push to get new nuclear plants built there. While...; Tags: Plant, British PM, Leadership, Blogging, Management, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-13
Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia: The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...; Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-26
Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice: A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress, California, is going to harvest, mill, store, move and bag rice using...; Tags: California, Plant, PPM, Government, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-17
Americans growing their own: veggies this time: The high energy prices may be hurting a lot of retail businesses: not gardening. Sales of garden plants, seeds and supplies are way up. Americans are growing their own. These are not World War Two "Victory Gardens." These are 21st Century Inflation Gardens. The outdoor...; Tags: Lawn, Plant, Americans, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-12

Images: Supersize solar power: Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...; Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-26
Insects using plants as phones: A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. 'Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.' This means that by using 'green telephone lines,' the...; Tags: Phone, Interaction, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-27
No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual: My recent blog on the drought possibly shutting down some American nuclear power plants raised some comment. All of it negative about this idiot blogger. I've now been labelled an "ecosocialist." Was that because I mentioned Chernobyl? NO, that mess happened under a faux-socialist regime so maybe...; Tags: Nuclear Energy, Blogosphere, Plant, Blogger, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-25
When did terrorism become a green tech issue? Just now...: Seems there are more than just environmental issues with building new nuclear plants. There are questions about the ability to protect them from terrorist attacks. For the record, there's been no known terrorist incident at any nuclear plant anywhere in the world...so far. Events at Three Mile Island...; Tags: Green Technology, Terrorism, Plant, Homeland Security, Corporate Insurance, Business Security, Government, Business Operations, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-15
Brace yourself: here's some hopeful news: Map showing Foula's location, courtesy of UK's Joint Nature Conservation Commission. First, there's a proposal from scientists that more gardening globally and more farming could help with the problem of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. Planting beans to save life as we've known it....; Tags: Renewable Energy, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-13
Illinois beats Texas in the Coal Bowl: The winner is: Mattoon, Illinois. That's where the FutureGen coal-burning, state-of-the-engineering electrcity generating plant will be built. The tech going into this plant will as near carbon neutral as current science and engineering can make it. I'm surprised Texas didn't win, but it was a...; Tags: Illinois, Texas, Winner, Plant, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-20
Big Coal making big announcement...fate of states awaits: Digram courtesy FutureGen Tuesday is a big day in the world of coal. That's the day FutureGen will announce its site selection for a next-generation coal-burning plant to generate electricity, with almost zero emissions. In keeping with the current Washington modus, the project...; Tags: Site Selection, Coal, Plant, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Ausra: Hey Nevada, here comes the sun: Hey, why not build a source to help the renewable energy industry in a place that uses a lot of power? Is this disingenuous? Heck, it's what solar thermal power company Ausra is doing: The Australian company has decided to locate its first U.S. manufacturing plant in...; Tags: Solar Energy, Nevada, Plant, Ausra, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Rare Flower Closeups Screensaver (exe): A great nature image slideshow screensaver for your desktop. A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The flower's structure contains the plant's reproductive organs, and its function is to produce seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation,...; Tags: Flower, Plant, Seed, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-11-29
A supercomputer to design better plants?: Is it possible to create more productive crops than nature does without growing hybrids or genetically modified plants? According to researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC, the answer is yes . They've simulated photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light to energy, with the help of supercomputers...; Tags: Researcher, Protein, Supercomputer, Gene, Plant, Computer, UIUC, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-26
Utility fires back at Kansas where Lt. Gov. touts alternative energy: There's now been a lawsuit filed in the case of the rejected coal-burning power plants. Sunflower Electric Power is suing the State of Kansas which denied the utility's request to build two more coal-powered generating plants. This is just the latest salvo in a battle that may spread...; Tags: Alternative Energy, Kansas, Carbon Dioxide, Plant, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-11-18
Coal's in our future. So what IS wrong with Kansas?: FutureGen's diagram of it's near-zero emission coal plant. You may think I really don't like coal. Bunch of petrified plants, after all. But the questions about coal are, after all, largely technological. It's unlike the debate over peak oil, and what supply...; Tags: Kansas, Coal, Carbon Dioxide, Plant, FutureGen, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-11-11
China uses high tech to prepare for global warming: China is working on crops that will resist some of the more likely effects of global warming. No, not plants that produce their own water. But hardier than current plants. Chinese scientists are working on laser-treating grain seeds to make them more drought and unltraviolet radiation-resistant. ...; Tags: China, Plant, Laser, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-11-01
New wave energy for Britain?: The U.K. once powered its industrial revolutilon with coal. Now that nation is looking to the sea for some of its future power. The plans for a huge wave-powered electricity generation scheme are getting encouragement from government leaders. The plans estimate 5% of the UK's entire...; Tags: Tide, U.K., Plant, Severn, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-01
"Sunny day, chasing those clouds away." (Or Ausra teams up with utilities for solar thermal development): Another amazingly sunny, potentially thunder-y afternoon out here in Jersey. Which is probably why I noticed this particular set of energy news out of the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York this week… Three companies -- FPL Group (the parent company of Florida Power & Light,...; Tags: Team, Turbine, PG&E Corp., Plant, FPL, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-09-27