Electric Car-Charging Startup GreenlightAC Joins the Fray: "Better Place may be making the most noise in the electric car charging field, but it isn’t the only game in town. And now there’s a new player — one-and-a-half-month-old GreenlightAC, which unveiled plans yesterday to deploy electric vehicle-charging stations in the Washington, D.C., area, although it has yet to reveal if it has any customers lined up. Based in D.C., GreenlightAC is reportedly set to close on a $500,000 first round of angel investment, and expects to release a prototype of its car-charging station, called the ChargeBar, this month.
The company says its ChargeBar will work with standard plugs (both 110 volt and 220 volt) for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, but unlike Better Place or Coulomb Technologies, GreelightAC isn’t building its technology around a subscription-based service. And it’s not going for the curbside market, either. GreenlightAC is focusing on garages for both office and residential buildings — installation sites that Mark Duvall of the Electric Power Research Institute and Bob Hayden, clean transportation adviser for the City of San Francisco have said will be easier and cheaper than curbside stations. GreenlightAC says it handles the installation and maintenance of the chargers, while the building owner pays for the elec..."
Charging Station, EV Charging
Monday, May 18, 2009
Biomass, wildfire and climate change: Protesting like it's 1989 - OregonLive.com
Biomass, wildfire and climate change: Protesting like it's 1989 - OregonLive.com: "This isn't just a matter of a few die-hard environmentalists in Eugene demanding that the Eugene Water & Electric Board refuse to buy the electricity that Seneca is planning to produce -- at two-thirds the cost of wind power, by the way, and less than a quarter of the cost of solar. This same debate is happening in the halls of Congress, where environmental groups are trying to write restrictions into the energy bill to exclude renewable energy produced from biomass taken from public lands.
The term of derision now is 'greenwashing,' and the cynical claim is that Seneca and the handful of other Oregon timber companies still in business are only interested in biomass and renewable energy because they see it as a key to get back to clear-cutting public lands.
Seneca plans to generate electricity by burning sawdust and other wastes from its mills, along with slash from the company's timberlands. But what exactly would be so threatening, so wrong, about a timber company like Seneca converting some of the brush on public lands into renewable energy? Which is the greater threat to Northwest forests, and to global climate"
The term of derision now is 'greenwashing,' and the cynical claim is that Seneca and the handful of other Oregon timber companies still in business are only interested in biomass and renewable energy because they see it as a key to get back to clear-cutting public lands.
Seneca plans to generate electricity by burning sawdust and other wastes from its mills, along with slash from the company's timberlands. But what exactly would be so threatening, so wrong, about a timber company like Seneca converting some of the brush on public lands into renewable energy? Which is the greater threat to Northwest forests, and to global climate"
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Hybrid car sales heat up
Hybrid car sales heat up: "Nearly 88,000 hybrid-electric vehicles were sold nationwide during 2004, making up 0.52 percent of the total U.S. light-vehicle market, reports J.D. Power and Associates, a marketing information and research firm based in Agoura Hills, Calif.
Industry experts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating sharply in the next few years."
Industry experts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating sharply in the next few years."
Hybrid Cars May Require Hundreds Of New Power Plants To Be Built, If Owners Charge Up During Peak Hours
Hybrid Cars May Require Hundreds Of New Power Plants To Be Built, If Owners Charge Up During Peak Hours: "A growing number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks could require major new power generation resources or none at all— depending on when people recharge their automobiles."
The TV As An Energy Hog
The TV As An Energy Hog: "Well, that's what the headlines that caught my eye basically were saying. TV gluttony is confusing the environmental issues around energy consumption.
When I pondered why my LCD monitor would be more energy efficient than my old CRT monitor it didn't make sense the opposite would be true for TVs. With some digging around I learned LCDs are up to 66 percent more energy efficient than CRTs in the computer monitor world, so I expect that's true in the TV world -- when you compare like-sized TVs. And, to make the argument for LCDs even stronger, they produce less heat, meaning you don't need as much AC cooling."
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/energyeff/tv.pdf
When I pondered why my LCD monitor would be more energy efficient than my old CRT monitor it didn't make sense the opposite would be true for TVs. With some digging around I learned LCDs are up to 66 percent more energy efficient than CRTs in the computer monitor world, so I expect that's true in the TV world -- when you compare like-sized TVs. And, to make the argument for LCDs even stronger, they produce less heat, meaning you don't need as much AC cooling."
http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/energyeff/tv.pdf
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