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Like the ancient alchemists trying to achieve chrysopoeia; the Sandia Lab in Albuquerque New Mexico is building a device to pull liquid fuel right out of the air. The device, called the “Counter Rotating ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator, or CR5 for short is designed to convert Carbon Dioxide in the air to carbon Monoxide [...]
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Photo courtesy of Hartaarn at Flickr.com.
One day, all of us are going to go to join the big compost pile. It’s generally not something we think about, but we’re all part of the circle of life.
So, how green is the funeral industry? With embalming, cement vaults, metal caskets, and marble headstones, death can leave a [...]
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Recycling is one of the environmental success stories of the last couple of decades.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, recycling and composting kept 82 million tons of material out of landfills and incinerators in 2006. That’s up from just 34 million tons in 1990.
In 2006, there were more than 8,000 curbside collection programs around the [...]
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AOS solar, in this press release, announced that they are working towards developing “Solar Silicon 4.0″ combining crystalline silicone with low cost thin film photovoltaic technology.
AOS Solar’s mission is to achieve c-Si efficiencies while reducing the amount of required silicon by 90%, the manufacturing energy budget required to achieve each Watt peak of output by [...]
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A couple of years back a bunch of us stood in the street and watched the book store of the local university burn to the ground in the middle of the night. The next day the only things left were the once familiar walls of a former Safeway grocery store filled to the brim [...]
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The Gifu Prefecture is the located in the center of Japan; the crossroads of Japan connecting the east to the west. “Control Gifu and you control Japan” is the old saying
Well the Gifu Prefecture is also the home of Sanyo’s Solar Ark; 345 yard long photovoltaic power generating facility, lab and museum. The [...]
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According to this article in the Martinsville Bulletin, a local convenience store chain owner has taken on some rather serious problems head on. He is contracting with local farmers who formerly grew tobacco to instead plant canola that he will then process himself into biodiesel to sell at the diesel pumps at his [...]
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Xerox Palo Alto, the people who brought us the mouse and the GUI interface, Ethernet, the laser printer, object oriented programming and now low cost solar power. Solfocus, the child of Xerox Palo Alto, has begun installation of the first array in the 3 MW installation in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain.
The government sponsored project in [...]
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In a press release Tuesday, Clear Skies Holding (a renewable energy solutions provider) announced that they would be installing 850 panels at Hawthorne Machinery’s 25 acre headquarters in Rancho Bernardo, California. The 159 kw photovoltaic system will provide 281986 kilowatt hours of electricity a year; a system capable of offsetting the majority of [...]
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According to this article by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; The National Institute of Science and Technology has awarded Thar Technologies Inc, a Harmarville PA company $1.9 million to develop a new single stage process to extract bio-diesel from feedstock.
Thar President and Chief Executive Officer Lalit Chorida said that to date, bio-diesel production has been a two-stage [...]
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