Monthly Archives: November 2008

Trash to Gas: Unglamorous but Cool Energy Technology

Innovation in the Internet industry has tended to occur in marketing and software engineering. In clean tech, a lot of the innovation is in engineering but also in basic science, such as chemistry and physics. The other day I saw … Continue reading

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Are Fuel Cells the Clean-Power Holy Grail?

What I’ve learned so far is that fuel cells, a technology that has been around a while and has had niche applications till now, has the potential to become a mainstream alternative to internal combustion engines in cars 5 to … Continue reading

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Looking at Fuel Cells

I’m doing some research on fuel cells. I’ll be looking at the cells themselves; hydrogen as an energy carrier; and distribution and storage questions. I plan do to couple of posts over the next few days. The dimensions you need … Continue reading

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Is Windy City Turbine All Spin?

The New York Times recently ran an article on efforts by retailers to incorporate environmentally friendly designs into their stores. Pizza Fusion has store in Florida that reuses draft from ovens to heat water McDonalds renovated a restaurant on the … Continue reading

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Does the U.S. Need a New Electrical Grid (Part II)

From my research so far, it seems that many of the technologies required to create a smart electrical grid are commercially practical or nearly so. It may be that the larger challenges to deploying the smart grid are fiscal and … Continue reading

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