Dec 14, 2009 – Jerry Flint writes “Hybrids’ Hang-Ups” in the December 28, 2009 Forbes. He argues that “hybrids don’t make dollar sense, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy one. It depends on your worldview.” The payback on the extra cost varies from 7 to 12 years.
Dec 14, 2009 – Christopher Steiner writes “Plug Needed” in the December 28, 2009 issue. Alte of Detroit headed by CEO John Thomas is targeting the market for hybrids engines in the directed market of taxis, limos, vans and shuttle buses. Why? These users all provide transportation within a city area and come back to [...]
We are staying the La Quinta Inn near downtown Naples, Florida. The lighting is very pleasing even though complact fluorescent bulbs are used. There are several lamps in the room including one on a desk. The lighting is good for working or relaxing. The bulbs are N:Vision brand. Compact fluorescent bulbs can now produce pleasant [...]
Dec 10, 2009 – Who’s taking the lead in protecting the earth from climate change? Mikhail Gorbachev. You read it right, Mikhail Gorbachev. Read his Op-Ed piece in today’s The New York Times, titled, “We Have a Real Emergency.” He links climate change to “security issues and to increasingly dangerous ethnic and international conflicts; to [...]
Dec 9, 2009 – $14.9 Million in Cost Savings Expected Over Next 25 Years ; Mendocino College, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) announced the completion of a 929-kilowatt solar power system on the college’s Ukiah campus. The system was financed by Bank of America and is expected to save [...]
Dec 8, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald reports in The New York Times, “An Effort to Spread Green Power to Coasts” that a company, Tres Amigas, proposes a huge power hub near Clovis, N.M., covering more than 20 square miles. It would be remote from populated areas but near the fulcrum of the continent’s wind [...]
Dec 8, 2009 – Alice Pfeiffer reports in The New York Times, “Small British Company Develops Improved LED Bulbs.” A small British company, Luminanz, founded in 2005, said it has developed an improved type of LED, which it calls the LED Luminaire, to overcome those problems. Luminanz says its lights are suitable for a wide [...]
Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting? If so, please provide your comments here. USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world. People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]
Siemens Energy has installed the first prototype of a newly designed direct-drive wind turbine. The new SWT-3.0-101 DD is a gearless machine with a power rating of three megawatts. It has a rotor diameter of 101 meters. The prototype was installed close to the Danish town of Brande, where Siemens Wind Power headquarters is located. [...]
Dec 2, 2009 – Is saving $40,000 at the showroom enough to get drivers behind the wheel of an electric car? With a program in the works to add easy access to charging stations, Denmark is about to find out. For all their potential, electric cars have always been the subject of more talk than [...]
Dec 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald writes “E.P.A. Says It Expects to Raise Amount of Ethanol Allowed in Fuel Blends to 15%” in The New York Times. The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel, to 15%, if tests [...]
Dec 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald writes “Big Utility To Close 11 Plants Using Coal” in The New York Times. A large Southern utility said Tuesday that it would close 30 percent of its North Carolina coal-fired power plants by 2017, a step that represents a bet that natural gas prices will stay acceptably [...]
BMW introduced the Mini Cooper E in California and New York duriing May and June of this year, but many drivers were not happy. Delears were uninformed. There were connection problems and cold weather affected recharging. The range on a charge was only 100 miles. Recharging could take one day. Much of the back seat is [...]
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