reposted from 4/23/2009. They are starting installations now! I stumbled then (2009) on this talk from Shai Agassi, a former SAP exec, on a new way to think about electric cars. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf He makes a very good argument that one is today not asked to own an oil rig to get gas, so [...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
28 Aug
Nice way of making greenhouse gas emission more palatable
Check out this new "ad" to illustrate how our actions generate greenhouse gas. Very nice way of visualizing it… This comes from the same group that did the Live Earth concert. They created a new NGO called Climate Protect
22 Aug
Perfect for warm regions: Seville’s (Spain) solar power tower
I just heard about that this morning listening to the radio. An interesting concept, using heat generated by the sun not the classical photovoltaic means to produce electricity. Think of it as a humongous magnifier (in this case hundreds of mirrors pointing all in the same direction) that will use sun rays to heat water [...]
26 Jun
Earth without humans
What would earth look like if humans were to disappear? An interesting thought experiment put in video on Scientific American…. www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=49B0CB1C-E7F2-99DF-31B25137E601E0C5
