Archive for the ‘ Energy ’ Category

Solar Roadways

[Straight from Slashdot] “Solar Roadways, a project to replace over 25,000 square miles of road in the US with solar panels you can drive on, just received $100,000 in funding from the Department of Transportation for the first 12ft-by-12ft prototype panel. Each panel consists of three layers: a base layer with data and power cables [ READ MORE ]

Black street, green heat

The Economist has an article on the use of streets as heat sinks for winter warming and summer cooling. It requires an underground aquifer, which implies undiscussed environmental concerns. But it holds some promise for making use of our urban infrastructure. [ READ MORE ]

Billboard: Use electricity wisely

  • November 5th, 2007
  • Posted in Energy

South African billboard follows its own advice. [ READ MORE ]

Bike lanes

  Excerpts from an article on bike lanes from the WSJ (Building a Better Bike Lane, by Nancy Keates, 4 May 2007). Flat, compact and temperate, the Netherlands and Denmark have long been havens for bikers. In Amsterdam, 40% of commuters get to work by bike. In Copenhagen, more than a third of workers pedal to their [ READ MORE ]

Electric Bike Burst

Pasadena’s most eligible bachelor DK is in the news pushing eclectic electric bikes to the commuting masses in Southern California. Apparently, his group (WestStart-CALSTART) is subsidizing the purchase of $1k-$2K electric bikes to the tune of $500 through their MyGo Program (DK himself! But looking a little disappointed that the door won’t open.) A brilliant thing to [ READ MORE ]

Kerfuffle over wind power

NYTimes reports that there is a kerfuffle brewing over China’s receipt of about $3b of the $4.8b distributed by the UN for power projects that prove they are displacing the production of greenhouse gases. UN officials say that the purpose of the porject is to prevent greenhouse gas production and that on this basis the [ READ MORE ]