Posted Mon Feb 8, 2010 12:02 PM ET | 0
Ultra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so much sense in these places, even if the... Read more
Posted Wed Feb 3, 2010 09:17 PM ET | 0
Here's an idea for a power plant: the solar-powered sports coliseum. What if you skinned an entire stadium with solar such that it could satisfy its own ginormous appetite for power when filled with spectators, but when idle (which is ... Read more
Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 09:02 AM ET | 0
Air travel nowadays is all about the delay. From two conversations yesterday, tales of miserable delay. A family visiting a friend stretched a two-hour flight into twelve, getting home at 2 a.m. And then from a road warrior, the observation ... Read more
Posted Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:05 PM ET | 0
I spent my junior high years in Voltageville. Well, actually, they called it Vacaville then. Population 30,000; a little agrarian town/military base bedroom community midway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Now apparently it is to be known as... Read more
Posted Sat Jan 23, 2010 05:36 PM ET | 0
Checking in on John Petersen, the excellent, well-versed skeptic of the electric vehicle, finds him increasingly strident in his criticism of plug-ins generally and lithium ion (Li-ion) in particular. He surfaces a fatal flaw in resting the entire EV... Read more
Posted Thu Jan 21, 2010 07:15 PM ET | 0
Way. It's like something you'd dream up when you're eight years old and sitting around wondering what if. Buck Rogers stuff. What if cars could just draw their power from the floor? James Bond stuff. Apparently, there is something afoot ... Read more
Posted Sun Jan 17, 2010 08:36 AM ET | 0
Of course: apply the same sustainability paradigm to bridges and roads that we've applied to buildings. Roads may not be as sexy as buildings, but they represent miles of opportunity to improve the way we use resources, to improve the ... Read more
Posted Sun Jan 10, 2010 09:04 AM ET | 0
Less is more; let the music show you how. We've witnessed the progression: albums to compact discs to digital files a la iTunes, where each step takes less material and less effort to get the music to the listener. Now, ... Read more
Posted Sun Jan 3, 2010 05:50 PM ET | 0
That would be how it works if you drove an electric vehicle. Your refueling would be done in the garage at your house, in a parking space at work, at the places you shop and dine. If wireless power were ... Read more
Posted Sat Jan 2, 2010 07:54 AM ET | 0
Businesses can be so busy doing what they do, they don't have time to do what they do, better. Take the trucking industry. Things that have been around since the sixties (the cab mounted roof deflector to be specific) still ... Read more
Posted Wed Dec 30, 2009 08:47 PM ET | 0
Scientific American laid out a plan to power the world entirely with renewables by 2030. Sensing weaknesses in the plan, skeptical commentators closed in like a pack of wild Eeyores. It'll never work they said, trotting out opinions, facts and ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 21, 2009 06:06 AM ET | 0
This mental snapshot of a visit to Kohl's is lodged in my brain and won't go away: clothes as far as the eye can see, a dizzying sea of sizes, styles, colors and types, accompanied by deep discounts and the ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 14, 2009 05:37 AM ET | 0
If you don't now, you may someday soon. Range anxiety is a chief concern for those crafting the age of the electric vehicle. This niggling issue surfaces frequently in message boards like Linkedin's E2V4A board, or on blogs, like this ... Read more
Posted Sat Dec 12, 2009 03:39 PM ET | 0
Jatropha is one bean in the bio-fuel swirl that's worth book-marking to see if it ever makes something of itself. This little weed first caught my attention a year ago when it fueled a 747 on a two hour flight. ... Read more
Posted Mon Dec 7, 2009 09:07 PM ET | 0
Reading Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation has me wondering if we got it all wrong. James Womack and Daniel Jones offer the premise (in describing the flow piece of the Toyota Production System) that our ... Read more
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