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There's a lot happening with the electrification of vehicles right now. Real things, concrete steps towards full scale mass deployment. The kickoff of the Nissan Leaf tour last week and the unveiling of the City of Houston's first charging station... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:24 AM ET | 0
Ray Anderson, founder of carpet giant Interface, explains in Confessions of a Radical Industrialist that his environmental epiphany was like a "spear in the chest." Delivered to him by reindeer in Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson... Read more
Posted Sat Nov 14, 2009 06:40 AM ET | 0
Mashing three thoughts together. 1. The idea of a paintable photovoltaic has been around for awhile; Tomeka Witherspoon reports solar ink is maybe five years from being commercially viable. 2. The third generation Prius has an optional solar roof (it... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 05:13 PM ET | 0
Houston is making an electric vehicle recharge grid. How do you actually go about accomplishing such a massive undertaking? By starting somewhere. By doing something. This month the City of Houston will unveil ten charging stations to go with their... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 04, 2009 08:23 AM ET | 0
Project Get Ready emailed me a summary of their latest efforts to get cities ready to put electric vehicle charging infrastructure in place. One thing they've done is put together "Plugging In: A Stakeholder Investment Guide for Public Electric... Read more
Posted Tue Nov 03, 2009 07:00 PM ET | 0
Today and tomorrow, Southern Methodist University is hosting "an international energy conference specializing in the enhancement of existing oil and gas wells for electrical production from the Earth’s heat." The idea is to capitalize on the high... Read more
Posted Sun Nov 01, 2009 09:30 PM ET | 0
The Zero Energy Building (ZEB) is happening. Announcements of new ZEBs are popping up everywhere. Most recently: NASA's Ames Research Center, but also: Singapore's first ZEB, BASF's model ZEB for home builders, a Vermont school field house, a net... Read more
Posted Wed Oct 28, 2009 09:15 AM ET | 0
Well, okay, they didn't really commandeer it, and it's really more about smart metering than smart grid, but, this is an interesting, inexpensive offering that helps you see how you're using electricity. The Energy Detective (TED) provides instant... Read more
Posted Mon Oct 05, 2009 06:52 AM ET | 0
We went paperless. On the construction project just completed, we used a paperless submittal process. For those not familiar with how a commercial construction project is managed, the submittal process is a last check before materials are ordered and... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 01, 2009 09:57 AM ET | 0
Went to a meeting of the North Texas Energy & Environment Club, a well attended affair with a nice mix of students, staff and faculty from the University of North Texas. Met Greg Hawk, who whispered in my ear that ... Read more
Posted Mon Sep 14, 2009 08:00 AM ET | 0
The mileage fee is a sensible plank that belongs in any platform developed to remake the way we use energy. Among its other virtues, the mileage fee creates a way to incentivize efficient use of a constrained resource: the road. ... Read more
Posted Sat Sep 12, 2009 09:32 AM ET | 0
Better Place has a deal with Japan's government and the country's largest taxi operator to work out the details of doing a battery swap on an electric vehicle. Two things worth noting: Government support creates a welcome landing spot for ... Read more
Posted Mon Aug 31, 2009 08:31 PM ET | 0
LEED is a voluntary system to measure how sustainable a building is. In my happy thinking, LEED was a stepping stone that would simply dissappear once its underlying benefits were widely understood (we choose to build green because logic compels ... Read more
Posted Mon Aug 17, 2009 09:45 PM ET | 0
NPR's interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally this morning painted the titillating vision where captains of industry coalesce around an electric car future. The wrap up to this morning's session with an American automaker was unfathomable even less than... Read more
Posted Sat Aug 15, 2009 07:11 AM ET | 0
Forget big wind farms with their pesky transmission issues. Locally produced power is the way forward. (See the richly detailed argument made almost a decade ago in the compelling treatise Small is Profitable). Floundering efforts to get transmission... Read more
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