Lynne Kiesling Very interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal about BYD, a Chinese firm manufacturing electric vehicles. One of the most interesting points in this article: despite the global economic downturn, BYD is increasing its operations, first in China and then planned for US and Europe, because entry barriers are lower in the electric …
Lynne Kiesling Run, don’t walk, to Marginal Revolution and read Alex’s post today on smart grid investments. I’ll have more to say on this point later, but I have a date with a stationary bike and a swim pool that I must keep.
Lynne Kiesling [Note: FTW=for the win, for those of you who don’t waste your time in the jargon of the tubez of the Interwebz.-ed.] I am glad to hear that the big buzz from the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 is induction chargers for electronic devices. Wikipedia’s got a nice explanation of inductive charging if you …
Michael Giberson Via the New York Time‘s Green, Inc. blog, a story from a community newspaper in Massachusetts describing adaptations to the loss of power during the recent snow and ice storms that covered the area. In one case a man pressed his Prius into service as an emergency generator, a feature likely to become …
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Lynne Kiesling GE has been making lots of research progress on OLEDs, and they are celebrating the holiday season with a green OLED roll Christmas tree! Sure, it’s a little dorky, but imagine how these low-energy-per-lumen lights can transform our lighting, and our energy use to provide valuable lighting functions and services. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ] Merry happy …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting list of “energy myths” from Chris Goodall at The Guardian. What I find useful about his discussion is not the “myth debunking” per se, but rather his comments on why he considers them myths. The “wind is unreliable” myth, for example: Actually, during some periods earlier this year the wind …
Lynne Kiesling As a cyclist, I occasionally measure my power output on the bike (you fellow bike weenies know how much attention we pay to wattage!), and wonder about using my work to some beneficial purpose beyond my own enjoyment, health, and sports training. There are gyms here and there that use their stationary bikes …
Lynne Kiesling We have another step toward the smart grid, the transactive electric power network prototyped in the GridWise Olympic Peninsula project: from the UK, pilot testing of 3,000 dynamic, intelligent refrigerators! The trial, run by energy company npower, will be the first trial of new technology to be approved under the government’s carbon emissions …
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Lynne Kiesling This Wired article summarizes and links to a poster for the American Geophysical Union meetings (pdf) from Elaine Hart, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. Her power flow simulation suggests that the existing transmission network in California can accommodate up to 70% of renewables in the portfolio on a …
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Michael Giberson On the greentechmedia site: “Texas Wind Farms Paying People to Take Power“: A power producer typically gets paid for the power it generates. In Texas, some wind energy generators are paying to have someone take power off their hands. Because of intense competition, the way wind tax credits work, the location of the …
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