Scientific American (www.SciAm.com) reports on a technology that can create cement from the carbon dioxide exhaust from power plants. It’s an intriguing idea. Each ton of cement created in this manner would sequester a half ton of CO2.
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Scientific American (www.SciAm.com) reports on a technology that can create cement from the carbon dioxide exhaust from power plants. It’s an intriguing idea. Each ton of cement created in this manner would sequester a half ton of CO2.
Project Better Place aims to see to it that the electric car operators’ network is put in place globally, one country at a time. Due to its size and technological readiness, Israel has agreed to be one of the first countries to establish an infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles.
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An article on Alter.Net provides a useful overview of how shifts in precipitation and other climate patterns will continue to have major disruptive effects on the availability of fresh water in the United States. The short version is that the gradual movement of the jet stream farther north will make the southern states — both [...]
The Economist reports that Norwegian and Dutch companies are pursuing new designs for floating deep-sea wind turbines that potentially can produce multiples of the amount of electricity possible with turbines that must be firmly anchored into the sea-bed. Farther out to sea, winds blow at least twice as fast as they do closer to shore. [...]
After using Adobe Acrobat Connect lightly for a couple of years, I have always been impressed by its stability and by the quality of the screen visuals and the sound, even on dial-up connections. Now, Stephen Downes blog has passed along a link to a new online meeting and conferencing environment, Vyew. The biggest difference [...]
Since the very promising startup, JotSpot was devoured and (in my opinion) made less approachable by Google (as Google Sites), I’ve been searching for a powerful, user-friendly, feature-rich wiki capability. I had hoped to find a product or service that, like JotSpot (R.I.P.), was open to a vibrant developer community, which would ensure a steady [...]
Scientific American reports that a unit of energy from conventional solar cells is cleaner and (after three-to-four years) cheaper than a unit of energy from fossil fuel sources — even when the dirty energy used in their production is taken into account. Emerging solar technologies will increase the economic and environmental lead of solar generation [...]