Published on September 19th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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At first glance, the nearly hundred year old Grand Central Station doesn’t look particularly energy efficient—after all, the station does contain 60,000 lightbulbs. But New York City officials are doing their best to make sure the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 19th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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The Railway Gazette reports that Kawasaki has unveiled a new high-speed train called the Environmentally Friendly Super Express Train (efSET). The train will travel at a speed of 217 MPH (350 km/h)... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
Last week, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical exhibited a fuel cell-based power supply unit that is small enough to be used in an electric wheelchair. The microwave oven-sized unit, which weighs 22 kg, has an output of 300W [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2008 | by Rod Adams
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The United Kingdom’s energy supply situation has changed dramatically since 2003, when a UK government report titled Our Energy Future – Creating a Low Carbon Economy concluded that it was not necessary to build new nuclear [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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Add Kraft to the growing list of companies that turn waste into energy. Two of the company’s New York cheese plants plan to turn used whey into biogas—enough to provide energy to 2,600 homes. Previously, Kraft [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2008 | by Joshua S Hill
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I’ve said from the very beginning of my writing here at Green Options, as have many other pundits and journalists the world over, that it will be big business that not only will, but has too [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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Now here’s a story that makes me feel profoundly unaccomplished: a 12 year old boy in Beaverton, Oregon recently developed a new type of 3D solar cell that makes other solar cells look inefficient by comparison... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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A few weeks ago, I posted a brief introduction to Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based start-up that has invented a new method for building simple and cheap solar concentrators. Many of you asked for more details, so [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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If you miss the treehouses of your childhood, you may just have a new excuse to own one relatively soon. Researchers from have Tel Aviv University and MIT have built a prototype treehouse that can process [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Joshua S Hill
In a time before powerful and technologically advanced computers, and possibly still to this day with all that equipment, a trained ‘pilot’ was given the reins of any vessel that attempted to pass through the Port [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Joshua S Hill
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One of the biggest roadblocks to a future of renewable energy production is the ability to store such generated electricity. The current networks of power supply and storage simply have no chance of being able to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2008 | by Courtney Carlisle Bolton
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In the fifties, beach goers could jet around in the Fiat 500 Jolly meant to be a zippy golf cart replacement when running to the yacht or out to the course. The hot Italian car design [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2008 | by Courtney Carlisle Bolton
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The Kanguru Eco Drive ($80) is one of the longest lasting, inexpensive to operate external hard drives currently available according to the company. It’s also more environmentally friendly than most. Using it’s patented Power Saving mode [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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Genomatica, a San Diego-based sustainable chemical company, announced today that it has developed a process to make an important component of plastic without the use of petrochemicals. The chemical, 1,4-butanediol (BDO), has an annual production value [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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It’s that time of year again—Greenpeace has released the 9th edition of The Guide to Greener Electronics. The guide scores companies based on a set of criteria for chemicals, e-waste, and energy. This year, Nokia regained [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2008 | by Courtney Carlisle Bolton
One of the hardest things about camping is leaving everything the way you found it. Well, Bushnell is trying to make one part of that as simple as possible with the Bushnell BackTrack GPS Navigation System [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 16th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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Move over, T. Boone Pickens. You’re about to be overshadowed by Babcock and Brown. Australian developer Babcock and Brown has announced that it is working on a 79.5 MW wind farm in the Texas Panhandle— but [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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If you’ve been holding back from buying an iPod nano for environmental reasons, it might be time to rethink your decision. Last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the fourth generation iPod nano, which he claims [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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Nanotechnology seems to be invading all facets of modern life, from the pills you take to the batteries that power your iPod. Pretty soon, carbon nanotubes may even filter your water. Researchers at the Bhabha Atomic [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
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As if the announcement of a high-speed rail line that will go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes isn’t exciting enough, Navigant Consulting now claims that the bullet train can [&hellip... Read More →
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