No Rocket Fuel Needed
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
We are looking for more song for playlist
We are looking for more song for playlist. The songs should be energy, earth, or environment related. Please send us suggestions. Thanks.
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Department of Energy - Small Business
Department of Energy - Small Businesses Helping Drive Economy: Clean Energy, Clean Sites
http://www.energy.gov/recovery/documents/Small_Business_Memo_Mar2010.pdf
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http://www.energy.gov/recovery/documents/Small_Business_Memo_Mar2010.pdf
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Earth Day 2010
Earth Day 2010 Coming In April 22 nd
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.
Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability. Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.
Start planning your Earth Day 2010 event and take action today.
Tools to Get Started
Organizers GuideEarth Day In A Box
Earth Day Network’s Campaign for Earth Day 2010
Global Days of Service – April 17-18 - Join millions around the globe to make your community and the world cleaner and more sustainable.
Help Generate a Billion Acts of Green™ - Register individual, community or business service acts and take action for Earth Day.
Events on The National Mall in Washington, DC
Earth Day 40th Anniversary Events – April 22
Change the Climate Rally – April 25
Exhibitions and Performances on The National Mall – April 17-25
Arts for the Earth™ - Get involved in art that promotes environmental themes.
Song for the Earth Contest - Youths 18 or under who are passionate about music and the environment are invited to compose and submit a song. Winners will perform on The National Mall.
Athletes for the Earth™ - Athletes are signing up to change the climate!
40th Anniversary Global Advisory Committee - See who is part of the team!» -->
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It Takes A Village (of scientists) To Reinvent Energy
It Takes A Village (of scientists) To Reinvent Energy
National Harbor, Md.--Attending the ARPA-E Summit this week was sort of like roaming the halls of clean-tech high school, one investor quipped when I asked him what he thought of the conference. It's an analogy that holds up pretty well.
There were the popular "kids" that everybody wanted talk to--high-profile green-tech investors like John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. Authority figures who set the rules were out in force as well, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, multiple senators, and other high-level Department of Energy officials.
Looking for a clean-energy home run (photos)
And then there were the nerds, the folks who loved taking science classes and building things back when they actually were in high school. These are the types of people who use a vocabulary most of us can barely follow--chemical compounds or industrial processes that you never heard of--because they have deep expertise in a particular field.
As usual, the politicians and money people got lots of attention. But in my mind it's really the class geeks who should be the rock stars at an energy innovation conference.
ARPA-E, which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, was funded for the first time last year with a $400 million budget to award grants to companies and researching pursuing breakthrough clean-energy technologies. On Tuesday, Secretary Chu said that agency is structured around specific technology goals that have a chance at being developed within a few years.
For example, ARPA-E this week announced its grant solicitations for grid storage to complement wind and solar power, for energy-efficient air conditioning, and for efficient power electronics for wind turbines or LED lighting. The agency has already awarded $151 million to researchers developing methods for storing carbon dioxide underground and improving electric vehicle energy storage.
Although it's still young, the agency has gotten off to a good start, according to outsiders and the politicians, such as Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who were instrumental in getting it funding. Outsiders, such as Doerr and Google director of energy and climate initiatives Dan Reicher, said that the DOE has assembled a top-notch team to vet applications.
Competition for the research money is tight: DOE officials said about three-quarters of the grant applications have been rejected. What's in the running right now? Everything from a Velkess flywheel energy storage system to an Algaeventure Systems plan for extracting algae from water. Entrepreneurs are also pursuing nuclear fusion and the conversion of carbon dioxide and methane gas into a low-carbon liquid fuel.
This photo gallery gives example of the technologies still being evaluated for ARPA-E funding. Making it through the selection process in some way pays twice: a number of companies that have already received research funding were also able to raise money from venture capitalists.
It's pretty much guaranteed that many of these efforts will fail, but that's OK if there are a few technology "home runs" that come out of ARPA-E, say DOE officials and investors. After that, though, there's perhaps a bigger challenge: getting great clean-energy technologies to scale.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10463851-54.html?tag=mncol;posts
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National Harbor, Md.--Attending the ARPA-E Summit this week was sort of like roaming the halls of clean-tech high school, one investor quipped when I asked him what he thought of the conference. It's an analogy that holds up pretty well.
There were the popular "kids" that everybody wanted talk to--high-profile green-tech investors like John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. Authority figures who set the rules were out in force as well, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, multiple senators, and other high-level Department of Energy officials.
Looking for a clean-energy home run (photos)
And then there were the nerds, the folks who loved taking science classes and building things back when they actually were in high school. These are the types of people who use a vocabulary most of us can barely follow--chemical compounds or industrial processes that you never heard of--because they have deep expertise in a particular field.
As usual, the politicians and money people got lots of attention. But in my mind it's really the class geeks who should be the rock stars at an energy innovation conference.
ARPA-E, which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, was funded for the first time last year with a $400 million budget to award grants to companies and researching pursuing breakthrough clean-energy technologies. On Tuesday, Secretary Chu said that agency is structured around specific technology goals that have a chance at being developed within a few years.
For example, ARPA-E this week announced its grant solicitations for grid storage to complement wind and solar power, for energy-efficient air conditioning, and for efficient power electronics for wind turbines or LED lighting. The agency has already awarded $151 million to researchers developing methods for storing carbon dioxide underground and improving electric vehicle energy storage.
Although it's still young, the agency has gotten off to a good start, according to outsiders and the politicians, such as Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who were instrumental in getting it funding. Outsiders, such as Doerr and Google director of energy and climate initiatives Dan Reicher, said that the DOE has assembled a top-notch team to vet applications.
Competition for the research money is tight: DOE officials said about three-quarters of the grant applications have been rejected. What's in the running right now? Everything from a Velkess flywheel energy storage system to an Algaeventure Systems plan for extracting algae from water. Entrepreneurs are also pursuing nuclear fusion and the conversion of carbon dioxide and methane gas into a low-carbon liquid fuel.
This photo gallery gives example of the technologies still being evaluated for ARPA-E funding. Making it through the selection process in some way pays twice: a number of companies that have already received research funding were also able to raise money from venture capitalists.
It's pretty much guaranteed that many of these efforts will fail, but that's OK if there are a few technology "home runs" that come out of ARPA-E, say DOE officials and investors. After that, though, there's perhaps a bigger challenge: getting great clean-energy technologies to scale.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10463851-54.html?tag=mncol;posts
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Three Electric Car Employees Die - Sad News for Alternative Fuels Industry
Tesla Motors Employees Die In Plane Crash
UPDATE (February 18): The three Tesla Motors employees killed yesterday in the crash of a small airplane at the Palo Alto Airport have now been identified, according to local news reports.
They were: Doug Bourn, a senior electric engineer and the presumed pilot of the plane; Andrew Ingram, an electrical engineer; and Brian M. Finn, a senior manager of interactive electronics.
The company has not yet confirmed the three men's identities, and at noon, the San Mateo County Corner's office plans to hold a press conference to release the information officially.
[San Jose Mercury via Wired]
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(February 17, 2010) “We lost 3 employees in a plane crash today. We're a small company and this is a tragic day. Our thoughts go out to their families.” - Elon
With those words, attributed to CEO Elon Musk on Tesla Motors' Twitter account an hour ago, the company acknowledged news that erupted onto Bay Area outlets this morning and spread globally via Twitter and other media.
Just before 8 am Pacific this morning, a twin-engine Cessna with three passengers apparently clipped electrical distribution lines while taking off in a thick fog from the Palo Alto Airport, on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Pieces of the airplane crashed into buildings and cars in East Palo Alto, and power in Palo Alto and the adjacent Stanford Hospital was lost. Remarkably, there were no injuries on the ground.
The three passengers in the plane, among them a Tesla Motors executive, were killed.
All three passengers worked at Tesla, the pioneering startup electric-car maker whose Tesla Roadster was the first highway capable electric vehicle sold in the U.S. in many years. The company is now developing its next model, the Model S four-door luxury sports sedan.
At this point, the identities of the passengers have not been released. Sources confirm that Musk, vice president of business development Diarmuid O'Connell, and vice president of communications Ricardo Reyes are not among them.
Power remains out in Palo Alto, affecting the hub of Silicon Valley. The headquarters of High Gear Media, publishers of AllCarsElectric.com, is also dark.
We'll update this story as we get more details. Our thoughts go out to the families of the dead, and to all the employees and friends of pioneering electric-car maker Tesla Motors.
http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1042701_breaking-tesla-employees-killed-in-plane-crash-identified
UPDATE (February 18): The three Tesla Motors employees killed yesterday in the crash of a small airplane at the Palo Alto Airport have now been identified, according to local news reports.
They were: Doug Bourn, a senior electric engineer and the presumed pilot of the plane; Andrew Ingram, an electrical engineer; and Brian M. Finn, a senior manager of interactive electronics.
The company has not yet confirmed the three men's identities, and at noon, the San Mateo County Corner's office plans to hold a press conference to release the information officially.
[San Jose Mercury via Wired]
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(February 17, 2010) “We lost 3 employees in a plane crash today. We're a small company and this is a tragic day. Our thoughts go out to their families.” - Elon
With those words, attributed to CEO Elon Musk on Tesla Motors' Twitter account an hour ago, the company acknowledged news that erupted onto Bay Area outlets this morning and spread globally via Twitter and other media.
Just before 8 am Pacific this morning, a twin-engine Cessna with three passengers apparently clipped electrical distribution lines while taking off in a thick fog from the Palo Alto Airport, on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Pieces of the airplane crashed into buildings and cars in East Palo Alto, and power in Palo Alto and the adjacent Stanford Hospital was lost. Remarkably, there were no injuries on the ground.
The three passengers in the plane, among them a Tesla Motors executive, were killed.
All three passengers worked at Tesla, the pioneering startup electric-car maker whose Tesla Roadster was the first highway capable electric vehicle sold in the U.S. in many years. The company is now developing its next model, the Model S four-door luxury sports sedan.
At this point, the identities of the passengers have not been released. Sources confirm that Musk, vice president of business development Diarmuid O'Connell, and vice president of communications Ricardo Reyes are not among them.
Power remains out in Palo Alto, affecting the hub of Silicon Valley. The headquarters of High Gear Media, publishers of AllCarsElectric.com, is also dark.
We'll update this story as we get more details. Our thoughts go out to the families of the dead, and to all the employees and friends of pioneering electric-car maker Tesla Motors.
http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1042701_breaking-tesla-employees-killed-in-plane-crash-identified
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