Category Archives: green technology
LED Lighting to Capture 52% of Commercial Building Market by 2021
LED Lighting to Capture 52% of Commercial Building Market by 2021 NOVEMBER 30, 2011 BY ELIZABETH SMYTH LEAVE A COMMENT “LEDs represent perhaps the most significant breakthrough of the last 130 years in lighting technology.” – Eric Bloom Pike Research forecasts LED lighting will capture 52% of the Commercial Building Market by 2021 as the [...]
Post oil: Glimpses of life after fossil fuel
Americans like to imagine the future. From the world’s fairs of the early 20th century to futuristic magazine features in the 1950s to the 1980s “Back to the Future” films, we love dreaming up what might come next. When we dream, it turns out, we dream without oil. The show-stealer at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 [...]
Geothermal Energy Could Power Entire U.S. (Maybe)
Google is dipping its toes in renewable energy – according to Science Daily, it provided a grant to SMU Geothermal Laboratory which indicates a pretty hefty amount of geothermal power lurking across the United States. The total amount of available power is claimed to be more than three million megawatts (current coal power plants produce 300,000 megawatts, [...]
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Hydrogen Combustion – Watch a funny movie here
Hot Panels, Practical but Not Yet Popular – A Solar Overview
The sexy movie stars of the solar panel business are photovoltaic (PV) panels, but you might not want Hollywood deciding what to put on your roof. My colleague, Glenn Meyers, has discussed how solar PV panels work in a concurrent article. I will not cover that here. But every star has their working relatives. For PV panels, the older [...]
