• Elk Horn, Iowa: Eliminating Range Anxiety in the Midwest

    Updated: 2010-09-29 18:14:55
    , : Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 29 Recent Comment Austin That is not true for what I've heard . Power plants and electri . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Elk Horn , Iowa : Eliminating Range Anxiety in the Midwest Written by Megan Treacy on 29 09 10 Here's a surprise statistic : nbsp the nation's largest concentration of electric vehicle charging stations is in Elk Horn , Iowa . nbsp Not anywhere in California or Oregon , but in . Iowa Now , to be clear , Elk Horn's population is only 650, so it didn't take many charging stations to hit that high concentration , but at four charging stations , it sadly still beats out many cities just in the amount of . stations The town got these stations from a local businessman , Mike Howard ,

  • Quote of the Day

    Updated: 2010-09-29 16:45:10
    “The truth about conservation is that some of the best work is done by intelligent folks sitting in front of computer screens, tied to a global community by a tangle of phone and internet lines, or in a board rooms surrounded by like-minded Patagonia- and Carhartt-clad colleagues.” –Christina Supples Filed under: Environmental Science, GIS, Quotes

  • Collaboration in the Model Web

    Updated: 2010-09-29 16:17:40
    Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards Digital Earth: Search, Discover and Share Geospatial Data 2010″ at Future Internet Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2010 Sven Schade, Patrick Maué, Clodoveu Davis “Compared to environmental data sets, an open and simple exchange of environmental models on the Web remains a vision.  The lack of an architecture facilitating the [...]

  • Super-Lightweight Electric Car Doesn't Need Batteries

    Updated: 2010-09-29 14:02:31
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 29 Recent Comment OK . it has many drawbacks , but if solar power was used to top up a r . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Super-Lightweight Electric Car Doesn't Need Batteries Written by Philip Proefrock on 29 09 10 While there are a lot of good things about electric cars , one of the biggest drawbacks is the heavy load of batteries they must carry . But students at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences are building a car that instead gets its power from the road The power is delivered to the vehicle through cables embedded in the roadway using inductive charging allowing a much lighter electric vehicle that does not need to haul a great mass of . batteries There are companies proposing to charge

  • Walmart Turns To Thin-Film Solar

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • MIT Study Urges Nuclear Overhaul

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • Dow Advances Wind Energy Materials

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • Bayer Develops Solar Heat Collector

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • OECD Sees Threats To U.S. Economic Recovery

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • Catalyst For Sustainability

    Updated: 2010-09-28 21:25:00
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  • Integrating Human Observations and Sensor Observations – the Example of a Noise Mapping Community

    Updated: 2010-09-28 19:24:25
    Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards Digital Earth: Search, Discover and Share Geospatial Data 2010″ at Future Internet Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2010 Theodor Foerster, Simon Jirka, Christoph Stasch, Benjamin Pross, Thomas Everding, Arne Bröring, Eike Juerrens “Human observations have the potential to significantly improve the actuality and completeness of data about phenomena such as [...]

  • Counting Carbon

    Updated: 2010-09-28 05:00:00
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  • Improved Storage for Solar Thermal Power Plants

    Updated: 2010-09-27 21:21:00
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 27 Recent Comment I agree with shasta--increased storage capabilities would be a huge ad . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Improved Storage for Solar Thermal Power Plants Written by Philip Proefrock on 27 09 10 Another big grant recipient from the six seriously geeky developments that received USDOE funding as part of the ARPA-E program is a program to develop thermal energy storage with supercritical fluids from the University of California Los Angeles UCLA We've noted that the State of California has started approving solar-thermal power plants and Google is even involved in research for solar-thermal power it is a technology that has languished for some years , but is now starting to gain wider notice

  • Getting to Know Esri Business Analyst: New Workbook Teaches How to Analyze Business Opportunities Spatially

    Updated: 2010-09-27 18:46:52
    Getting to Know Esri Business Analyst, by Fred L. Miller, teaches entrepreneurs how to use a wide range of Business Analyst applications to develop opportunities and serve customers more efficiently. Readers learn by completing fully illustrated, step-by-step exercises based on the growth of a hypothetical startup business, from its conception to its emergence as a [...]

  • Solar Powered Towers: 13 Super Sunny Skyscrapers

    Updated: 2010-09-27 18:00:19
    Nearly all sustainable architecture concepts include solar energy in some way, but not all of them do it in a big, bold way, bringing solar power to towering new heights. These 13 soaring solar powered skyscrapers incorporate solar cells in new and unexpected ways, from photovoltaic facades for existing buildings to flexible solar membranes that [...]

  • Improving Magnets - A Strategic Necessity?

    Updated: 2010-09-27 15:02:10
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 27 Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Improving Magnets A Strategic Necessity Written by Philip Proefrock on 27 09 10 Perhaps the least photogenic of the six recent projects which received US Department of Energy ARPA-E funding is also the most timely . GE Labs is working on the development of next-generation permanent magnets that include lower amounts of rare-earth elements . Recent reports have indicated that the Chinese government may cut off the export of rare earth materials as part of a trade dispute , or as a political move . The current dispute between China and Japan is one aspect of this , but there are concerns that a similar embargo could be imposed in other areas . The development of new magnets could lead to

  • Countdown to Better Consumer Labeling for New Cars

    Updated: 2010-09-24 19:22:08
    (Just posted on our sister blog Way2Go by Kathryn Phillips) The 60-day countdown for submitting your vote online about the best car label design has officially begun. Today the federal register published the official notice inviting comment on the government’s proposed changes to the information labels posted on new cars. The agency has also scheduled two [...]

  • From Reservoir Ruins to Stunning Urban Park in Sydney

    Updated: 2010-09-24 18:00:29
    First, it was a failed urban reservoir, closed after just twenty years due to its weak flow of less-than-sparkling water.  Then, the crumbling remains of whitewashed brick, barrel-vaulted ceilings and graceful arches was incongruously used as a commercial garage. But today, those 132-year-old ‘ruins’ in Sydney, Australia have new life as a stunning urban park [...]

  • World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens in UK

    Updated: 2010-09-24 17:52:54
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 24 Recent Comment After years of trailing behind countries operating renewable energy pl . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens in UK Written by Megan Treacy on 24 09 10 The UK has starting operating the Thanet wind farm , the largest offshore wind farm in the world for . now The wind farm occupies 35 square miles off the coast of Kent and contains 100 turbines capable of generating 300 MW of power . This new project establishes two major milestones for Britain : the country is now generating more offshore wind power than the rest of the world combined and it's now caught up with other European countries like Germany by having generated 5 GW of power from renewable .

  • Five fall plants to plant and five projects to make

    Updated: 2010-09-24 08:23:47
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  • Cheaper-than-Coal Power from a Tethered Kite

    Updated: 2010-09-23 17:46:09
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 23 Recent Comment I've posted before , on Ecogeek , about the lying that wind energy compa . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Cheaper-than-Coal Power from a Tethered Kite Written by Philip Proefrock on 23 09 10 Makani Power is one of six recent US Department of Energy ARPA-E grant winners for their Airborne Wind Turbine AWT a tethered flying wing that flies in endless loops around its anchor point on the ground and generates electricity from propellers on board . Makani believes it will be able to produce wind power that is 40 cheaper than conventional wind power and , more importantly , at an unsubsidized real cost competitive with coal-fired power . plants Think of this as a really big wind turbine . But

  • How To Define "Safe" Water?

    Updated: 2010-09-23 05:05:00
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  • Six Seriously Geeky Developments Get USDOE Funding

    Updated: 2010-09-22 19:26:01
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 22 Recent Comment Let's hear it for geeky ideas that may change the world Thanks for an . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Six Seriously Geeky Developments Get USDOE Funding Written by Philip Proefrock on 22 09 10 The US Department of Energy recently awarded funding to six programs for a total of 9.6 million in funding under the department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy ARPA-E program . Three of the six projects received funding of over 2 million dollars apiece . The other three each received an amount between one-half and three-quarters of a million dollars . Each of these programs offers the potential for significant advances in their respective . fields By investing in transformative ideas

  • Yahoo Unveils Super Efficient Data Center

    Updated: 2010-09-22 17:38:41
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 22 Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Yahoo Unveils Super Efficient Data Center Written by Megan Treacy on 22 09 10 It was just a little over a year ago that Yahoo announced it was building a super-effiicient data center in Lockport , NY one that would be powered by Niagara Falls . Just this week , the company unveiled the finished . product The Lockport facility will indeed be powered by Niagara Falls hydropower , but the impressive part of the data center is the efficient design . Called the Yahoo Computing Coop , the facility was modeled after a chicken coop , with long , narrow buildings that encourage re-circulation of Lockport's cool air . Between the cool climate and the efficient design , the data center will only use

  • Donlen, GreenDriver and EDF Commit to Reducing 20% of Fleet Emissions by 2016

    Updated: 2010-09-21 20:56:43
    (Posted earlier today on our sister blog, EDF Innovation Exchange) Today, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) joins with Donlen, a leading fleet management company, and GreenDriver™ in a commitment towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the commercial fleet sector by 20% over the next five years. This pledge is being made at the annual Clinton Global [...]

  • E. Coli Could Replace Petroleum in Plastic Production

    Updated: 2010-09-21 16:40:15
    . Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 21 Recent Comment Start to educate these people that there are not enough jobs to go aro . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it E . Coli Could Replace Petroleum in Plastic Production Written by Megan Treacy on 21 09 10 A biotechnology company based in Boulder , Colorado has discovered a way to engineer E . coli to convert sugar into acrylic acid a major component in paints , diapers and adhesives in place of petroleum . This new process produces 75 percent less CO2 emissions than the petroleum-based process OPX Biotechnologies is a start-up company that is engineering bacteria to make industrial chemicals and renewable fuels . This new E . coli-based process they've developed is actually cheaper than the

  • The Fate of Silver Nanoparticle Waste

    Updated: 2010-09-21 05:55:00
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  • Focus Electric Is Ford's EV for 2011

    Updated: 2010-09-20 17:56:10
    Home Contact About EcoGeek.org SEP 20 Recent Comment I actually think that the volt is a pretty good looking car . But at View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Focus Electric Is Ford's EV for 2011 Written by Philip Proefrock on 20 09 10 While Nissan and GM seem to be getting the majority of the electric vehicle attention recently with the Leaf and the Volt both slated to begin reaching consumers in only a couple of months , Ford is getting its own electric vehicle ready for rollout . The Focus Electric which is due in early 2011, will be a Ford Focus with a battery electric system and roughly 100 mile . range The Focus Electric may be seen as a more direct competitor to the Leaf , since both are solely electric vehicles . But , unlike Nissan ,

  • Chemical Firms Invest In Solar Materials

    Updated: 2010-09-16 02:15:00
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  • A Bleak View For Curbing CO2

    Updated: 2010-09-15 22:35:00
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  • Reducing Carbon From Coal

    Updated: 2010-09-15 22:35:00
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  • Joint Workshop on Green Manufacturing and Materials Processing

    Updated: 2010-09-08 22:16:24
    On Monday I am going to attend this workshop. You can have a look at the  programme: 2010_08_13_CAS-UoN Workshop Programme. Some of the presentions promise to be very interesting. However, for my personal taste, the event looks a bit too Chemistry-led. Then again, I am sure I will learn some exciting new facts.

  • ‘Alternative energy source’ found

    Updated: 2010-09-08 22:16:23
    When venturing out today I did not expect to find a new ‘alternative’ source of energy.  The more I was surprised making my discovery during shopping which you can see below:

  • Research Topics for PhD Students

    Updated: 2010-09-08 22:16:01
    The Engineering Division at UNNC is currently providing a number of PhD research topics related to green manufacturing in China. Here, I would like to introduce the following topical area (if you are interested or would like to have more information, please do not hesitate to contact me directly by phone or email – see [...]

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