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Green tech finds, 10/6/11

A plug-in outdoor table, and how your labtop might contribute to rainforest destruction: this week’s green tech finds.

Wisconsin as a microgrid hub: There’s more than ugly political battles going on in the Badger State. A university-industry consortium announced an initiative to establish “microgrids” at UW campuses in Milwaukee and Madison over the next two years. (via @RepowerAmerica)

Green tech finds (8/5/10)

NASCAR, bicycles, and recycled guns… your green tech finds for the week.

• It all started with the bicycle: Trade pub Mechanical Engineering sings praises to the bicycle… not only as an engineering breakthrough for its time, but also as a “platform” for other transportation developments.
  
  
• NASCAR goes solar: Well, sort of… the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania now operates the tenth-largest solar farm in the US (and the biggest of any sports arena in the world).
  
  

Green tech finds (7/22/10)

Infrared photography, a green Motel 6, and solar in the South Pole… this week’s green tech finds.

• Lower-carbon flying: Air travel is pretty energy and carbon-intensive, but GE’s trying to make flying a bit greener with “software that will help pilots choose the most environmentally efficient flight trajectories taking into account conditions on four dimensions – latitude, longitude, altitude and time.”
  
  
• California’s the green energy leader… right? Maybe now, but according to Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic, Alaska and Hawaii may have some of the most innovative approaches out there for moving to low-carbon energy sources.
  

Green tech finds (4/1/10)

No foolin’… here are this week’s green tech finds.

• Low-tech renewable energy storage: In Vinalhaven, Maine, they’re testing out a system of distributed energy storage for wind power… and it’s based on old technology. (via Green Living Ideas)
  
  
• The green(er) bookmobile: A new bookmobile for Wood County, Ohio, runs on natural gas.

No foolin’… here are this week’s green tech finds.

• Low-tech renewable energy storage: In Vinalhaven, Maine, they’re testing out a system of distributed energy storage for wind power… and it’s based on old technology. (via Green Living Ideas)
• The green(er) bookmobile: A new bookmobile for Wood County, Ohio, runs on natural gas.