Reducing Your Carbon Footprint And Your Energy Costs Are No Longer Mutually Exclusive

On February 21st 60 Minutes aired a segment called ‘The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?’ Which did alot to fuel anticipation leading up to the press conference on February 24th. Especially since the company, Bloom Energy has been unusually secretive.

At the Wednesday morning event hosted by eBay at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters, and attended by vips such as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell (a board member for the maker), Bloom Energy founder K.R Sridhar unveiled from beneath a black covering – a plexiglass box of sand. (more…)

Dangerous Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interactions Give Rise To Ingenious Green Innovations

In 2004, Shawn Frayne, a member of a team from MIT visiting Petite Anse, Haiti, found the fishing village near the coast was not connected to an electrical grid, and the only lighting available was diesel-powered or kerosene-based. Frayne recognized that white LEDs powered by a small, very inexpensive wind generator might be better able to power LED lamps and radios in the homes and schools in the area. However, he hit a brick wall – turbine technology is too inefficient at these scales to be a viable option. (more…)

Sometimes Humor is worth a thousand words

The spoken word is such a barrier at times… no matter what language you speak.

So please watch this video for interesting clarification of my last post. And I promise to get off of the numbers for a little while.

BTW, we are going to rate this a PG-13 !

… as the green world turns!

Unless You Insist On Cutting Your Nose Off To Spite Your Face

A recently released analysis of global surface temperature conducted by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), shows 2009 was tied for the second warmest year for the Northern Hemisphere and the warmest year for the Southern Hemisphere since modern records began in 1880.

This is happening while the sun is currently in a period of abnormally low solar activity, yet global warming is continuing.

January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record. Throughout the last three decades, the GISS surface temperature record shows an upward trend of about 0.2°C (0.4°F) per decade. Except for a leveling off between the 1940s and 1970s a clear warming trend is present and persistent.

Since a NASA video is worth a thousand of my words …

Please take the journey over to the NASA site  ….   Global Temperature Update 2009

…… as the green future unfolds.

Hurricanes and Snow Storms Are Getting Stronger And Lasting Longer

Home Sweet Home!

It’s 5:35 in the afternoon and for the last 10 hours we have been working on getting the generators up because power has been out since 2 in the morning. Kicking ourselves because the generators have not been prepped since Ike hit us 17 months before. But now they’re working and everybody is thawing out. Except for the noise and regretfully, the noxious exhaust, everything is like normal because home is an RV.

A local news channel always ends the newscast with one of the anchors giving his ignorant 2 cents on whatever His Arrogance deems worthy of his biting critique.

Sure enough, he is now spouting a fact that the snow and ice we are experiencing in East Texas, (which would be normal in Minot, North Dakota), is proof that global warming is nonexistent and made up by followers of Al Gore to make him a billionaire. ??? — WHAT? — Really?!! — Oh good! My middle finger just came back to life. Hope the rest of my digits follow suit, that could be embarrassing.

Only way out!

People please, nobody said only the tropical storms would get worse. ALL STORMS are getting STRONGER and LONGER. The same words that have been said all along. And as for you Mr. Head-In-The-Sand, the Earth is annoyed and like a flea on a dog, she will scratch your pompous ass right off her surface, too bad she will take the rest of us with you.

Mother Nature will right herself, one extreme way or another.

… as the green future unfolds.

We Don’t Lose Towns By Mining Sunshine and Wind

Only two words are needed to answer proponents espousing the virtues of clean coal – Centralia, Pennsylvania.

This is a chronological eulogy of a small blue collar town. Full of folks just working for their share of the American dream. (more…)

The Future Is Here When Fun Finds The Green Innovation

Since May 2008 the innovative tide-harnessing turbine known as SeaGen has been securely in place, linked up to the grid, and turning the rapid ebbs and flows of Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough into green electricity. The largest tidal stream power device in the world it is the first tidal turbine to generate energy on a commercial scale and has been rated (more…)