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- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
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- Hybrids to increase market share, but...
- Hybrids to increase market share, but...Pretty glacial statements . . .Pretty cold language around here. Why the scare quotes around re-tool? Why the talk about hidden agendas again?Do you just hate them because they exist or something? Is there [b]any[/b] way they could earn your trust?Now that they're finally turning...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-31
- Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?
- China has been doubling its wind-powered electricity generation every year for the past three. Yet many proposed wind-powered projects never happen because in this neo-capitalist company the projects won't make a profit. The Chinese government controls all project permits and they force companies into competitive bidding...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Save water, save energy, save money, save manpower
- Click to see full image. Remotely directed irrigation controller. Courtesy HydroPoint. Moving water around uses a lot of energy in the United States and many other agricultural nations. A Petaluma, California, firm is selling digital control systems that can save both water and...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavements
- Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavementsDemand Meets SupplyWe need more electricity for the subdivision we built.Quick, throw up another parking lot.That will mean more cars, more homes.Quick, throw up another parking lot.......RE: Capturing solar energy from asphalt pavementsI have been trying to get people interested in this for a couple...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Hybrid cars and the power grid
- Hybrid cars and the power gridHybrids AREN'T "plugable" carsThere aren't any "plugable" hybrids in the market. A few people may add some extra batteries that may require a plug, but that is not a standard vehicle. The only "plugable" cars in the market are 100% electric (with only a max...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- (Photos: Solar power for the masses of gadgets)
- (Photos: Solar power for the masses of gadgets)It's a great idea, and I'm all for them, but...being that I, like most users I suspect, charge my phone, PDA, etc., at NIGHT while I'm sleeping, and use my car's charging system when on the road during the day...I don't see how...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Every day, in every way, we're getting better and...
- It is getting almost daily, the new record price for crude oil in absolute terms. There are now murmurings that oil could hit $100 per barrel this week, not some time in a vaguely defined future. Before the next weekend. All this is helped along by shutdown of...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again
- X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon againI am not so sure returning to the moon ...... is a bad idea. If we had proceeded to build a moon base in the 1970s & 80s, we would have the capability to build and launch vehicles from...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- San Francisco International Airport CIO - Transcript
- Dan Farber: John, Thanks for joining me. John Payne: Thank you very much for having me. Dan Farber: Now we’re at the San Francisco International Airport and you’ve been the CIO here since 2001. What’s the scope of your responsibilities at the airport?...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- A motorcycle that's fast, silent and green
- A motorcycle that's fast, silent and greenThe trouble is...the sulphur and mercury emiting....power plants that create the energy to charge the thing up!SO...in the end, she ain't SO GREEN.Motorcycles are a good place to start vehiclewisethey usual make shorter trips and not necessarily at the highest rates available on the...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- Tech Policy Summit: Solving the energy problem
- Tech Policy Summit: Solving the energy problemMaybe patents and regulations will helpHelp destroy civilization, that is.Break the shacklesNone of this will happen until we get the jackboot of the environmentalist movement off our neck, and that will take a change in perspective that I just don't see happening in our...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Electric sports car packs a punch, but will it sell?
- Electric sports car packs a punch, but will it sell?Where's the fun in a silent sports car?It just won't be the same without engine noise...PhysicsThe only way they got that kind of performance was to shed every ounce of weight and air resistance they could.Put in a gasoline engine and...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
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