Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Greentech Media | Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform.  Congrats guys.  One nice example of the platform use here — another here — a bunch of these up on the fat ... Read more..

Fisker Karma

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fisker Automotive: Environmentally friendly, premium cars featuring plug-in hybrid technology >> Vehicles >> Features — J says we need to get one of these. Read more..

The solution to global warming

Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas. Adds a new fun element to cow tipping as well. Read more..

Stuff I Want But Don’t Need — Surround projector TV, Multitool, Power monitor

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Mitsubishi Ultra Thin Frame Premium Flat Panel TV with Integrated Sound Projector » Coolest Gadgets — cool. I have a discrete sound projector in one room and have been ... Read more..

Mark Anderson on Solving America’s Energy Crisis — get to all electric with nuclear then solar/wind

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Strategic News Service Blog » Blog Archives » Solving America’s Energy Crisis — a reasonable approach. I heartily agree with the idea of getting to all electric as soon ... Read more..

Solar cost competitive by 2015

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Electricity Rates from Solar Cost Competitive by 2015 « Cooler Planet Clean Edge, a research and publishing company focused on renewable technologies and the non-profit organization Co-op America released a report ... Read more..

Energy links — IT leaders, Tesla, Nuclear, Duke Energy, Construction

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

HP working on solar PV, IBM putting a billion dollars into green datacenters, Intel spinning out a PV firm — nice to see the IT leaders getting behind alternate energy DOE ... Read more..

World Cement Usage

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Oil Drum | World Cement Usage: An Indicator of Energy Consumption–and China and India Are Certainly Using It — OK we better start worrying about peak cement. Read more..

Peak Water ?

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Big Picture | Peak Water ? — interesting graphics tho I am not sure I get it, are there huge fleets of tankers moving water from South America to ... Read more..

Green Made Simple

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

GreenMadeSimple: Find incentives, rebates and green business listings in your area — nice resource for finding discounts, rebates, etc for energy programs. Read more..

Energy reads

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

bcurtisBLOG » People are talking about water… — nice chart on where all our water goes. Only 13% for household use. A huge amount to thermoelectric power generation. Tom ... Read more..

Matsci stories — fuel cells, friction

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

50% greater fuel cell efficiency — basically by nanoscale engineering of the fuel cell elements. cool frictional duality — suggests that smart nanoscale fabrication might be able to affect friction Read more..

Fat Spaniel in ‘Power 10′ ranking of top cleantech companies

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

‘Power 10′ ranking of top cleantech companies | Green Tech - CNET News.com — great company to be in! Read more..

XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M | EcoGeek — Nice to see an Ohio company leading the way Read more..

Fat Spaniel Coverage in San Jose Mercury News

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Plugging into your system’s vital signs - San Jose Mercury News — nice coverage on Fat Spaniel today Read more..

Home energy stuff

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Very interested in products that make us smarter about our energy use at home. Sean reports on his use of TED — the TED device lets you get finegrained ... Read more..

Interesting energy reads — Cogeneration At Home: Ceramic Fuel Cells And Bloom Energy; Solar as a Service; Vacuum-insulated windows; Solar roof tiles

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Oil Drum | Cogeneration At Home: Ceramic Fuel Cells And Bloom Energy “Solar as a Service” — i like the phrasing Vacuum-insulated glass windows — makes sense, I wonder what the ... Read more..

Physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon

Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon — and faster than in copper. Read more..

Tornado Power Plants

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

An Update on Tornado Power Plants | EcoGeek — awesome, man-made tornados as part of a power plant. It just seems like the beginning of a great Michael Crichton ... Read more..

Setting Sun? The “End of the Beginning” for Solar Bonanza

Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Setting Sun? The “End of the Beginning” for Solar Bonanza — turmoil in solar. Supply issues, tax credit concerns, etc. As ... Read more..

Lemnis Pharox LED Bulb

Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Cool Tool: Lemnis Pharox LED Bulb — seems like a good bulb. ordered. Read more..

Green Links

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Idea Blob: An Infectious Way to Fund Your Green Business : Ecopreneurist — ok not really green specific but interesting Reusing worn oil production tubing as jewelry — just looks cool. Artifical ... Read more..

Intriguing materials science notes

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars — uses a vapor deposition process to create small catalyst spheres New aluminum alloy used to create hydrogen — I don’t understand this one as well Changing ... Read more..

Greentech PPA Report

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Good summary of this report — Clean Energy Future by Arno Harris: GreenTech’s PPA Report — Key Insight on Leased Buildings: In 2009, PPAs will be established as the standard way ... Read more..

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize-Judges — cool, our own Brian Curtis is a judge! Interested to see the entries. Read more..