Portable wireless mice have a problem: most of them rely upon disposable batteries, which often wind up in landfills as e-waste. Adele Peters’ Corky mouse aims to change all that — it’s a kinetic energy-harvesting mouse that is powered with a fli... Sigue leyendo

Alex Steffen Today, I took a long walk through the old neighborhoods of Long Beach: craftsman bungalows, Mission-style courtyard apartment buildings, quaint and walkable streets, old... Sigue leyendo

Photo: Ford Not Sexy, But the Business World Needs Electric Vehicles Too Ford has just unveiled the electric version of its award-winning Transit Connect utility van in Chicago, and it's not just a "maybe far in the future" announcement. Transit ... Sigue leyendo

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How about this: the new wind turbines installed in just 2009 alone will generate as much electricity as 12 large nuclear reactors: click image for larger version According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), ‘the world’s wind power capacity.... Sigue leyendo

Photo credit jurvetson One of the topics which I responded to on the recent IBM Eco Jam was “IT’s Central Role In Managing Energy & Carbon”. This topic was raised by another analyst (again IBM has asked me not to mention participants by name but ... Sigue leyendo

Navistar, Inc. has signed a concept development agreement with UK-based Clean Air Power Ltd. to develop Navistar’s MaxxForce 13 big bore engine to run on natural gas and diesel fuel for the North American market. The program will utilize Clean Ai... Sigue leyendo

A new IAEA service for the promotion of best practices and safety in the uranium production cycle, the Uranium Production Site Appraisal Team (UPSAT), was first used to review the uranium production site of Caetité, State of Bahia, Brazil, in a tw... Sigue leyendo

This is a guest post by Oil Drum reader Carl Henn. I spend a lot of time reading The Oil Drum. It helps me to understand the nature of the energy and economic problems we face. These problems are complex and important, so it is easy to spend an in... Sigue leyendo

Image via Wikipedia A new report by National Wildlife Federation exposes a very undesirable consequence of corn biofuel production. The report says that wildlife in the Prairie Pothole Region is suffering from the ever expanding production of cor... Sigue leyendo

Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years. The founder of the Virgin group, whose rail, airline and travel companies are sensitiv... Sigue leyendo

By Ishan NathCross-posted from LeadEnergy.orgA special three-part series in last week's San Jose Mercury News, entitled "The Cleantech Revolution," highlighted the enormous economic opportunity in the clean-tech sector and warned that the U.S. is ... Sigue leyendo

Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scie... Sigue leyendo

Minister for Environment and Forest, Jairam Ramesh with (L-R) Carlos Minc (Brazil), Xie Zhenhua (China) and Buyelwa Sonjica (South Africa). Photo: Rajeev Bhatt On the 24th January the second meeting of Ministers of the BASIC Group – Brazil, South ... Sigue leyendo

Some time ago we ran a series of articles on lightweight construction and how it might play in various forms of transport in our energy constrained future. read more Sigue leyendo

Trinidad and Tobago’s Health Minister presented a pretty tough tobacco control bill in Parliament the other day, and seems confident it will emerge as a law in just a few months with little watering down.  It appears that Trinidad and Tobago will ... Sigue leyendo

Green Rankings of Top 500 US Corporations (Newsweek)Walmarts Vendor Sustainability Index Assessment Questionnaire.... Sigue leyendo

A WelHops study some years ago assessed the needs of the elderly regarding the buildings and surroundings in which they wish to live. Still as relevant today as it was when it was carried out, this study ran from May 2005 to September 2007 as part... Sigue leyendo

Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought Science Centric (6 Mar 2009 15:44 GMT) - The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world’s largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published to... Sigue leyendo

A new report claims that Canada’s recent CO2 cutting efforts have accomplished almost nothing. About two billion dollars have been assigned to the global warming measures so far.  The bulk of the funds (1.5 billion Canadian) were used for a climat... Sigue leyendo

This week has been dominated by questions of replication and of what standards are required to serve the interests of transparency and/or science (not necessarily the same thing). Possibly a recent example of replication would be helpful in showin... Sigue leyendo

Well, we'll probably still need roads, but maybe not gas. The term "air cars" sounds very futuristic, a la flying cars and auto-lace tennis shoes. But while the technology isn't anything too new (basically stored compressed air is gradually releas... Sigue leyendo

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An item of interest to ethanol producers and other supporters of ethanol is this announcement by EPA, as further clarified by this announcement by EERE:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on November 17 that the 2009 renewable... Sigue leyendo

If you don't know who Michael Pollan is google him. Then read his books, specifically his most recent, An Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food.If you're not a book reader, you should be. But if you want the abbreviated version of these books a... Sigue leyendo

Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey today announced his plan to triple the state’s offshore wind goal.    At the same time, the Gov. Corzine highlighted last week’s selection of Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE) as the receipient of a grant in... Sigue leyendo

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a novel way to collect energy from the sun with a technology tha... Sigue leyendo

We need a massive increase in electricity generated from alternative energy.Here's Al Gore's vision:Here's one way to achieve 100% Carbon Free ElectricityThoughts? Sigue leyendo

WIND ENERGY: Billionaire Tom Golisano says his new company will keep more money in host townsBy Michael Regan/reganm@gnnewspaper.comAmid references to his hockey team and jokes that fired up the ne... Sigue leyendo

As a part of our continued site upgrades, we are now offering 4 new services: daily peak oil news feeds, the ability to submit peak oil articles (with HTML), a submission form for link exchanges a... Sigue leyendo