The Green Technocrat

On Monday the E.P.A. announced the winners of its annual Green Power Leadership Awards.
The three categories the E.P.A. gives awards for are:

Green Power Partner of the Year: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves through their purchase, leadership, overall strategy, and impact on the green power market.
On-site Generation: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy [...]

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Earlier this month Google released their Clean Energy 2030 proposal to help the U.S. reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.  The plan lays out a possible path that could eliminate using coal and oil to produce electricity (cutting total fossil fuel-based electricity generation by 88%), would also cut oil use in cars by 38%, and would [...]

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On Thursday the Carbon Trust, a UK based company whose mission is to “accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organizations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies”, announced that they were launching the world’s largest publicly algae-biofuel R&D project.
The Carbon Trust estimates that large scale production of [...]

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There have been some surprising discoveries about the carbon sequestering power of wetland areas recently.  Wetlands are also great at sucking carbon out of the atmosphere.  Unfortunately, they also release methane which, as I’m sure you all know by now from reading my post What Is Global Warming Potential? Click Here To Find Out…, has [...]

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…they both seem like a good idea at the time, but you’re probably going to end up with syphilis.

So gas prices have been falling lately, and while people across the country have been rejoicing in their good fortune - You might not be able to afford your mortgage, and you might have lost your retirement [...]

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Spain has been the solar capitol of the world for the last few years thanks in part to generous government subsidies.  Currently, Spain’s feed-in tariffs guarantee that solar energy producers will receive triple the market price for solar energy, or around a whopping 33 eurocents per kilowatt hour!  Add in the bountiful sunshine and open [...]

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Tesla Motors, maker of the Tesla Roadster all-electric sports car, announced on Wednesday that due to the tough economic times they will be leaving Detroit and establishing their new company headquarters in San Jose.  In addition to the move they will be laying off an unspecified number of workers, saying that “There will also be [...]

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It’s been a long day.  Somewhere between writing a technical manual on enterprise energy management software, and cloning some genes into a suicide vector so that I can save the world through science, I completely tanked.  Because of this there will be no great blog posts tonight.  I know, I know, when was the last [...]

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Last week Solyndra, a Fremont, California based maker of photovoltaic systems, announced that it had developed a new solar system for the commercial rooftop market.  What is interesting about these new panels is that they are cylindrical in shape, which allows them to capture sunlight from all angles.  When normal, flat panel, solar cells are [...]

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Some how I missed this a few months ago, so while this may not be news to some of you it’s news to me.
Back in May of this year Sapphire Energy announced that they had produced 91 octane gasoline, identical to what you currently are getting at the pump in every way except one…they used [...]

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