Green Gadgets part two

Here are some good examples of green design done right vs. completely misguided. A computer made from light weight reusable and recyclable materials.  Also if you are tech savvy at all you can just buy new components instead of a whole new system. The Takeup: A computer made out of cardboard.  It’s true cardboard is [...]

Some Inspiration

Blight the lighting shades

Today was the annual Green Gadgets Design competition.  I think it’s fantastic that people are excited about being innovative for a positive purpose.  Many of these products will contribute to a better world and others will simply waste time and money.  We should be skeptical of these new inventions because while they all have good motives, [...]

Alltop.com

So I’ve been going to this site regularly for a long time and they just added me to their directory! The site was started by Guy Kawasaki, an authority on the latest happenings in the Internet world, among other things.  It’s a good place to find interesting information on any topic, both in terms of [...]

Space Based Solar Power and Microwave transmission

A company called Space Energy Inc. has plans to collect solar enery in space and beam it back down to earth via microwave radiation.  They are currently trying to secure more funding for a prototype to prove the concept works. In theory this is something that can be done.  We know the physics of the [...]

LED lights, Theory vs Practice

LED technology is the current favorite for lighting in the future. They use less energy than fluorescent lights and can emit more pleasing light.  They also in theory do not need to be replaced for many years. I worked at a hardware and furniture store when I was in college and we carried many different [...]

CO2 + H2O = energy

This is well written article on converting Carbon Dioxide and water into energy using nanotubes.  The potential of nanotechnology often seems to good to be true and I really hope the promise pans out.   http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16621-sunpowered-device-converts-co2-into-fuel.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=environment http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl803258p

My question about clean coal

What happens when the ground moves? Quick background on clean coal (many seem confused by the ads):  The idea is to pump the CO2 emitted by the burning of coal underground and keep it there forever.  The underground storage containers would ideally be already existing geologic formations. Say we found enough natural underground airtight spaces [...]

save the rainforest

If we run our cars on biofuels produced in the tropics, chances will be good that we are effectively burning rainforests in our gas tanks,” warned Holly Gibbs, of Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

Nano Solar and nanoimprint lithography molds

Nanotechnology is great despite what you may have read in the Michael Crichton novel “Prey”.  I suppose the only problem is that our hands are too big. There has been a new breakthrough in the manufacturing of nano particles and by breakthrough I mean research by college students.  Metallic glass can be used to create a [...]