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Energetics: Sandolow's Yale speech on innovation
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A blog on energy, climate and politics. Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Sandolow's Yale speech on innovation. Robert Sandolow of DOE recently gave a speech. It's a speech worth reading in full. According to Sandolow, there are five key reasons why the government does - and must - invest in innovative technologies. Government protects intellectual property, with patents and other tools. The private sectors under-invests in fundamental research. Market failures stifle innovative technologies. It's encouraging t...
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Hydrovolts: Training Commuters is Difficult
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Power from Water™. Wednesday, June 9, 2010. Training Commuters is Difficult. California Bay Area train system Caltrain. From the Federal Railroad Administration. To run electric locomotives on the same tracks as their current diesel stock. Apparently this is the first time such approval has been given to any system in the United States. The business case to save the struggling Caltrain. Was the decisive argument, according to Robert Doty, director of the Peninsula Rail Program. Which championed the move.
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Hydrovolts: Eight Is Enough
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Power from Water™. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Jon Stewart in one of his typically acerbic pieces on the promise of oil independence:. Coming on the heels of President Obama's speech. On the BP spill, and with video clips detailing 4 decades of imprecations and high-minded exhortations from 8 presidents, Stewart complains, roughly, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 8 times, I am a freaking idiot.". Posted by Chris Leyerle. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hydrovolts' potenti...
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Hydrovolts: Hear My Train A-Comin'
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Power from Water™. Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Hear My Train A-Comin'. Would you take a high-speed train that doesn't stop? The video shows the "non-stop MRT system" of its Taiwanese inventor Peng Yu-lun. And is (I think) in Mandarin, but you can get a pretty good idea nonetheless of how passengers use ingenious reusable shuttles to get on and off a high speed train without it stopping or even (much? Trains are taller, so existing bridges might need to be rebuilt. US patent 4,425,851. Posted by Chris Leyerle.
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SolarIntell.com - Green Energy Stocks: April 2009
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SolarIntell.com - Green Energy Stocks. SolarIntell.com - A member of The Green Energy Stocks Investing Network. SI advises clean renewable energy as a path to peace and prosperity. Find Alternative Energy Websites, renewable power stocks, green energy funds, photovoltaic solar panels, publicly-listed windpower companies, water purification desalination investing, biofuels research, solar power stocks, geothermal power companies, thin-film solar. Clean Geen Power Mutual Funds and Investments. If it wasn't...
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Jail time for Gardening | Net Positive
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Not perfect, Net Positive. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. - Margaret Mead. Jail time for Gardening. Mdash; Leave a comment. July 15, 2011. In it’s entirety:. Hey, remember the woman threatened with 93 days in jail. For growing a garden in her front yard? She could have a cellmate! Dirk Becker of Lantzville, British Columbia turned his scraped-dry gravel pit of a property into a thriving organic farm.
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Hydrovolts: Augmenting Thermal Power Plants with Hydropower from Cooling Water
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Power from Water™. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Augmenting Thermal Power Plants with Hydropower from Cooling Water. Nuclear power plants discharge a lot of cooling water. Much of our current electrical generation is done by large utilities in what are generically termed thermal power plants. Thermal power plants. Posted by Chris Leyerle. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hydrovolts' new hydropower technology taps a plentiful but overlooked global source of renewable energy from water currents in canals and c...
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Hydrovolts: Wooden Turbines
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Power from Water™. Sunday, June 13, 2010. Norwegian company Hydra Tidal. Plans to test a tidal turbine next month. While many are pursuing different kinds of tidal energy devices, this one is unique for its turbine blades made of wood. Says company founder and R&D director Svein D. Henriksen. The plan to use floating deployment (as Hydrovolts does) is smart as it is faster, simpler, much cheaper, and doesn't need specialized boats. Still, the technology itself doesn't seem particularly different othe...
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Energetics: PV learning curves
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A blog on energy, climate and politics. Friday, November 18, 2011. From Geoff Styles at Energy Outlook (nice to meet you in person yesterday, Geoff! Is an incredibly important and naively overlooked observation:. The rest of the piece. Is well worth reading. Historic cost curves for solar technology tell us next to nothing about the processes, circumstances, and innovations that drove the costs down. Nor do they provide a set of technical target criteria for future innovation and cost improvements.
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