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PoCarles.com & US: Saint-Gobain and Second Life : Explaining glazing and playing for real trees

Saint-Gobain Glass, will run a set of conferences, to co-invent with some eco-friendly Second Life residents their next generation of products. The idea is to inspire more than ever both the R&D and Marketing department.

As well as the conferences, there is a game about the best practices for saving energy in your house, by using the right kind of high-technology glaze. Every resident can play (and win !) and then see a tree growing on Saint-Gobain island. The game will stay open until November 18th. Then, for each virtual tree in Second Life, we will plant a real tree in Lebanon by January 2009.

Tags: glass, glazing, energy on 2008-09-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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MSNBC Interactive

A dynamic Energy map of America showing infor on everything from the grid to biomass, geothermal, wind solar etc.

Tags: energy, renewables, map, grid on 2008-09-29 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one

With the assistance of a five-year $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) project, called "Powering the Planet," will increase the number of its collaborators to fulfill its goal of efficiently and economically converting solar energy and water into hydrogen and oxygen fuels.

The hydrogen and oxygen gases produced will be usable by a fuel cell, where they will react to reform water, generating electricity for powering an electric car or other devices. The gases may also be used as a source of energy after the sun goes down, and will generate a carbon-neutral or oil-free source of energy scalable to meet future global energy demands.

Tags: hydrogen, fuel cell, energy, solar energy on 2008-09-04 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Designing a low-carbon future: building the new yacht. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

the fundamental cheapness of energy meant that you could “make things manifest” with regard mostly to the cost of their materials and labor; this often went along with limited regard for energy use, and no regard for emissions and other “footprint” metrics. But that was before energy got expensive and stayed expensive, and before concerns about climate change and other environmental problems became widespread.

Tags: dematerialization, energy on 2008-08-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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How Bubble Wrap Could Power the Future | LiveScience

The Beijing National Aquatics Center, or "Water Cube," is surrounded by a light-weight polymer foil that significantly reduces the energy that goes into construction.

The thin transparent material, called ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene), is segmented into 3,000 air-filled cushions that let in light but hold in heat.

Tags: etfe, energy, energy saving, construction, insulation on 2008-08-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Joseph Romm: The New York Times' Absurd Attack on Obama's Energy Plan

The lead editorial in Sunday's NYT, "Energy Fictions," is a misguided and misinformed smear of Obama's outstanding energy proposals. It harshly criticizes a few tiny pieces of Obama's energy plan that deal with short-term oil strategies, in particular, his willingness to compromise on offshore drilling...

The NYT would seem to be accusing Obama of being dishonest -- even though it is the McCain campaign whose insatiable dishonesty now extends to climate-destroying [and soul-destroying] disinformation

Tags: nyt, obama, energy, obama energy plan on 2008-08-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Green Group Declares the Future Leader in Clean Energy Is… China? | 80beats | Discover Magazine

China currently leads the world in its use of renewable energy, and is poised to also take first place on investment in clean energy technologies, according to a new report from an international non-profit, The Climate Group

Tags: china, renewable, energy on 2008-08-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Efficiency, Part 3: The only cheap power left

Energy efficiency is by far the biggest low-carbon resource available (see Part 1) — and it is as limitless as wind, PV, and solar baseload (see Part 2). It is also the cheapest power you can buy, by far.

Tags: energy on 2008-07-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Energy Demand - Just because we want it, doesn't mean we are going to get it!

In the past the market has been able to match demand by increasing production. The whole point about peak oil is that production cannot be further increased and therefore there may be a demand there, but it cannot necessarily be met.

Tags: energy demand, energy, peak oil on 2008-07-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com

A thoughtful look at the thinking going into where data centers are located currently

Tags: data center, economist.com, virtualization, energy on 2008-05-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Spain's gain from wind power is plain to see - Telegraph

Good article on the benefits of wind power and why it is far more economical than solar

Tags: renewable, green, energy, wind on 2008-04-18 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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eRedux.com, Making Your Neighborhood a Better World!

Good resource for checking state by state energy stats across the US

Tags: carbon emissions, energy on 2008-04-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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