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Category Archives: energy

Video: Zero Pollution Motors

May 19, 2008 – 6:12 am

Ran across the mention of a car powered by air on Scott Adam’s blog today. Check out the video, it is pretty fascinating.

There are more videos on the company website taken from different television features.

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Do Visualizations Help Bring Environmental Change?

April 3, 2008 – 5:00 pm

Nathan who runs a brilliant blog called, FlowingData, posted a large number of visualizations focused on energy conservation today. We see charts all the time in newspapers and magazines as well as a number of interactive graphs that various media companies and organizations produce in order to have content that complements their body of [...]

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Building Green

March 24, 2008 – 4:14 pm

Whether it may be buildings that are cooled by drawing upon water from the lake or utilize the sun’s light to power some aspects of an office building’s operations — we really need to look at how much of an impact that each and every office building has on the environment, just as much as [...]

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Politics vs. Environment and Safety

January 29, 2008 – 5:44 pm

Sometimes I wonder if politicians are creating more problems for the country in order to make opposing parties look bad.
There is a recent article about the Chalk River Nuclear Reactors in Canada that were originally shutdown by a regulating body and then restarted by parliament. Why? So that there would be enough isotopes [...]

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Juan Enriquez talks about Bioenergy - Energy that We can Grow

January 11, 2008 – 2:32 pm

I thought this video was pretty insightful and Juan Enriquez does an excellent job explaining how we should take the idea of agriculture and apply it to the energy industry. More specifically, Enriquez points out to us that what we consider a chemical substance (i.e. petroleum or coal) is really condensed energy from sunlight.
Those [...]

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