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Search for Holy Grail may be nearing success

The Holy Grail may be within reach. That would be a sturdy, cheap, rechargable and recyclable battery for American-made hybrid cars if you are a believer in the religion of American enterprise. Today Michael Kanellos blogged about EnerDel, in the auto heartland of Indiana, which is aiming to...

Tags: Holy Grail, Battery, EnerDel, Thay, U.S. National Renewable Energy, USNREL, Engineering, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-18

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Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

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

California's burning: greentech solution?

Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo. Folks love beachfront property in hurricane and typhoon zones. Italians rebuilt cities at the foot of Vesuvius. Cities and towns clog major floodplains all over...

Tags: Biofuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05

National Science Board: get with it, U.S.

An advisory board for the National Science Founcation, the National Science Board NSB has added it voice to the chorus saying, "Enough with the oil and coal, already." The NSB suggests moving America toward a more sustainable energy supply. The NSB release says, "The NSB recommends...

Tags: Science, Board, Energy Economy, Energy Technology, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...

Tags: U.S., Coast, Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Government doings: water, climate

China wants to reduce its water use. How? More efficient irrigation. In California they're dealing with the drought by cutting back water supplies. In Silicon Valley the techies will find themselves with half a normal water supply this summer. Bet you'll see some more VC...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Green stimuli?

How much green for greentech in the "stimulus" bill that looks to be headed to law? I have not read the whole 1400 pages and I will not use the energy it would take to do so. But here's some of what I've gleaned. $20 bn for...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Battery, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

IT VC funding plunges to lowest level since 1998

Investments in the IT industry fell to their lowest level since 1998, a 39 per cent drop compared with the year ago period. Overall, US venture capital investments fell 30 per cent, compared with the year ago period, to their lowest level since 2005 reports Dow Jones Venture Source. ...

Tags: Finance, Information Technology, Investment, Quarter, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-01-17

Change of political climate re: climate change

There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...

Tags: Climate, Environmental Advocate, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!

Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!Nice spin, as usual.2025? The CEO of Transocean (the world leader in deep-sea drilling) was questioned about timeframes for drilling sites to come online. He said in no case could he see it taking longer than 5 or 6 years,...

Tags: cheap gasoline, Whoopee, gasoline

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea

Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular ideaAnd, yet againWe see the asinine argument that the path to energy independence isn't to produce energy, but to restrict use.But this is no surprise. Like all environmental issues, it really isn't about what it says it's about. Energy independence isn't about...

Tags: energy independence, Energy Independence Day, popular idea

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea

Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...

Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.

The US Senate is the first national battleground for an attempt to get the federal government to take action to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. We already know the attempt by more than a dozen states to raise auto emission standards was stopped by the EPA earlier this year. ...

Tags: America, Health Care, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-03

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

Tech giants reveal their agenda

The CEOs of the largest US tech companies this week lobbied the government for protection against patent infringement lawsuits, and for support of several key policies. Technet, the organization representing the chief executives of the largest US tech companies, unveiled its "2008 Innovation Policy Agenda" at an...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Policymaker, Broadband, Agreement, Microsoft TechNet, Internet, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Corporate Governance, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-03-13