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Green tech finds, 10/20/11

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:17:25 +0000

Underground skyscrapers, smart windows and more problems with natural gas drilling: Your green tech finds for the week. Charge your car with your phone: Well, not exactly, but a new app developed by IBM and Swiss utility EKZ allows for better management of when your electric vehicle is charged and what sources of energy are used to charge it. Find out more in the video above. (via @greeneconpost) The grain silo hotel: While not as green as it could be (because the structures used were built for the project), Silo Stay, a nine-unit New Zealand hotel built from grain silos...

Green tech finds, 9/22/11

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:10:28 +0000

Roads that charge your electric car, biofuel from orange peels, and sucking CO2 out of the air - your green tech finds for the week. Look out, Volt! The plug-in Prius is here: Car hackers have been converting the Toyota Prius into a plug-in hybrid (like the Chevy Volt) for years. The Japanese automaker has finally gotten in on the trend and released a plug-in version of its popular hybrid for the 2012 model year. That's it above. (via Greenwala) Charge your electric car while driving it: The concept of "electrified roadways" that could charge electric vehicles while they're moving has been around for decades, and Japanese researchers may have now come up with a viable model. "Electrified metal plates are buried under roads, which 'up-convert' energy via a radio frequency to a steel belt inside a car’s tires, as well as to a plate sitting above the tire." (via smartplanet and @greenamericatv)

Next Generation Plug-in Hybrid Car Tested in Florida

Sundance Channel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:15:00 +0000

GAINESVILLE, Florida, December 15, 2008 (ENS) – The gas price roller coaster and climate change concerns are making plug-in hybrid-electric cars look increasingly attractive to many people. Now, a new University of Florida partnership is testing to determine if they are in fact a cleaner, cheaper and more reliable choice than other cars. Pierce Jones, [...]

Less is More (Except When It Isn’t)

Sundance Channel — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:00:00 +0000

So, we can all agree that less is more [www.sundancechannel.com], right? It is — we’ve got some more high-level examples below — except, when it isn’t. What? 1) Okay, first of all, we’d encourage you to keep this in mind [www.treehugger.com]: “The key to sustainability is simply to use less, and the key to happily [...]

The Future of Solar Power in Our Lives

Sundance Channel — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:00:00 +0000

One of the biggest words associated with solar power (and with many forms of alternative, clean energy, really) is “potential.” Potential to create a clean energy portfolio, potential to reduce our consumption and demand for fossil fuels, potential to change the way we live and power our lives…the list goes on. Some sobering numbers that [...]