Green Battery DesignPrototype DIY Nickel Iron Battery Appropriate Technology Collaborative and Michigan State University Nickel Iron Battery ProjectNickel Iron Batteries have been around for a long time. Edison patented one in 1903, and he wasn’t the inventor. The batteries are rechargeable and they last a very long time. Some NiFe batteries have been in service […]
Edible Green RoofsEdible SchoolyardThe Edible Schoolyard in NewYork and Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation, are designing a new schoolyard for Public School 216 in New York that aims to educate school children about food, where it comes from and what real fresh foods taste like.
Climate scientist: Don’t trust uninformed blogs.Climate scientists struggle with the Internet.
US climate skeptics seize on blizzard.US opponents of climate change action are seizing on a record snowfall in Washington in hopes of killing legislation to curb carbon emissions, which already faced uncertain political prospects.
Polar explorer sees economic opportunity as driving force on global warming.When open […]
Hydrogen is Not The Miracle Fuel of the FutureBoingBoing.net is reporting today on a tabletop “hydrogen power station” that produces hydrogen from water using a standard power outlet and costs around $200. While this may sound wonderful on the surface, it merely illustrates how the notion of a EUR
Energy Day and Night from Solar/Fuel Cell CombinationSplitting Water by efficient, catalyzed electrolysis to give hydrogen and oxygen gases, and combining this with solar cells for the generation of electricity; See video link.
Climate change affecting Kenya’s coffee output.Climate change has affected Kenyan coffee production through unpredictable rainfall patterns and excessive droughts, making crop management […]
Another day another closureI recently spent a few hours taking stock of how our Nation is doing, using traditional approaches to fisheries management. My conclusion: not very well. As of December 31st, sixty federally managed fish stocks and stock complexes (containing an additional twenty species or so) were either overfished, being over fished, or both. […]
T4’s Plan to Create Half a Million Green JobsEarlier today the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a report, The Labor Market Impact of Transportation for Americas Jobs Plan, which models Transportation for Americas (T4's) jobs proposal. The $34.3 billion proposal, focusing predominately on Fix-it-First transportation infrastructure repair and public transportation, would create 480,000 jobs. These […]
Solar-Powered UAV Under Development If UAVs starts running on the solar system, then it will save lots of expensive fossil fuel and the add-ons in the form of greenhouse effects. Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology are working on a model of a solar-powered unmanned flight system for round-the-clock surveillance. They have christened their […]
Brewer questions fuel-efficiency rules.Arizona motorists looking for new cars in 2012 may escape being forced by state regulations to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Climate change scientists losing ‘PR war.’A Nobel peace prize-winning Welsh physicist says climate change scientists are losing “a PR war” against sceptics with vested interests.
Asbestos Use Today: information from a readerAsbestos is still imported and used in the U.S. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. imported and used an estimated 1,820 tons of asbestos in 2007; see this PDF file from the USGS, please click only if you want to download the PDF. Also, the U.S. House […]