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Green jobs for robots are becoming an important factor in pushing sustainable new technologies into commercialization, and a couple of recent developments underscore the key role our mechano-minded friends are playing. First, emerging solar giant Dow Corning Corp. has just announced an alliance with robot master Reis Robotics to promote a silicone-based encapsulating technology for [...]
Yesterday on the Mall in Washington, DC well over one hundred thousand gathered to show their support for clean energy legislation in the US. Musical artists Sting, John Legend, Passion Pit, The Roots, and others entertained the throngs of activists and environmentally concerned citizens.
One of the “greenest hotels” in the world, the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, has an interesting new option. If you ride one of its new electricity-generating exercise bikes long enough to generate 10 watt hours or more of electricity (not long), you get a free meal worth about $45. The bikes have iPhones on the [...]
University of Michigan researchers are studying a way to use pressure cooking to convert microalgae into carbon-neutral biofuels. Microalgae are a potential plant source of biofuel because they are easier to breakdown chemically. Conventional methods require using oilier algaes and drying them before conversion. But the Michigan researchers are investigating a process using a microalgae soup which is [...]
A recent study by ABI Research has shown that about 1% of global wireless phone subscribers recycle their cell phones but that 98% would recycle their cell phones with the right incentives. In order to help move us from 1% towards that 98% potential, two former chief executives of two major electronics companies — Sprint [...]
A tree lined community has come up with a solar energy solution that could serve as a model for others. In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind arrangement, a group of individuals in University Park, Maryland have established a limited liability corporation that will use a local church as the site of a new distributed [...]
Senator Graham (R-SC) told reporters Saturday that he was outraged at the idea that now immigration reform might be voted on before the climate and energy bill and is no longer unveiling it Monday as promised. He has been working for weeks with Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Lieberman (I-CT) on making the climate and renewable [...]
Duke Energy of North Carolina is a diversified electric company that that still relies on fossil fuel operations, but the industry giant is also embracing sustainable energy (perhaps egged on by another sustainability-minded utility operating in the Southeast, Progress Energy). Duke is into wind power in Wyoming, and last year the company announced that it [...]
