Energy
DailyTech – Breakthrough Allows LED Lighting to be Processed on Silicon at Great Savings
The Department of Energy offered a $20MM Bright Tomorrow prize for the creation of mass producible efficient lighting. It worked!
Note to the DoE: Great job! Do more of this stuff!
The new device is extremely promising as it may allow lighting to finally do primarily what it was intended — make light. Traditional [...]
Hybrid sales are zooming – Los Angeles Times
High gas prices are, of course, not a good thing for the economy, but high prices are certainly good for the environment. The silver lining of high gas prices is that more people are buying gas efficient cars.
Although hybrid cars account for only about 3% of U.S. car sales, their share is growing rapidly. [...]
GM’s Reportedly Road-Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries for the Volt | Autopia from Wired.com
Hooray! More electric car news. Will we ever see it? Somehow I think that GM will be beaten by a more nimble competitor, namely Toyota or Honda.
GM’s Reportedly Road-Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries for the Volt | Autopia from Wired.com
Harvard Business Review Green
Harvard Business Review recently launched HBRGreen. The website aims to start discussions on green business ideas.
The lead topic right now is about greening up the supply chain. There is an outline and some interesting discussion on how to do it. It’s worth checking out.
Getting More Green Bang for Your Green Back
The Wall Street Journal reports that wind grew 45% last year (to over 15,000 megawatts) and reports an estimated 20,000 jobs now in the sector. Solar Grew by 300 Megawatts.
If the resources are placed in good technologies growth in alternative energy will be exponential. Energy Technologies are still [...]
Batteries 10x Better in Next Few Years and They Still Explode
The Wall Street Journal has two articles about batteries today, one on their blog and one in print. The a blog article is about improvements made to the lithium-ion battery at Stanford that could improve battery performance 10 fold. There is no mention about about safety in the article, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Charge!
The Wall Street Journal reports that batteries are holding back the 60-80mpg hybrid. The best battery Technology, lithium-Ion, is unstable and may burst into flames. I would argue that safety is not an attribute that a consumer makes battery purchasing decisions on. Personally I’d [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Energy Saving and Technology
The New York Times has a great article on how using web based tools consumers can monitor and save energy. Users in the study saved up to 20% just by becoming aware of their own usage.
My team and I created a business plan for utility companies to start using energy [...]
