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The Common Green American: August 2010
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Friday, August 6, 2010. Stanford engineers leverage heat to make solar energy competitive with oil. Some good news on the solar energy front. Stanford University News reports. That Stanford engineers have figured out a way to use both the light and the heat generated by solar receptors to generate electricity, doubling present efficiency making it potentially it competitive with power generated from oil. The ne...
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The Common Green American: September 2009
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Sunday, September 20, 2009. The future of cheap battery power is bright. One of the future innovations I've been anticipating is the revolution in battery technology which should take place over the next few decades. In Robert Heinlein's novel Friday. MIT's Technology Review brings to us the recent development of a simple, cheap salt and pepper battery. Created from cellulose and a salt solution. A sixth genera...
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The Common Green American: The future of cheap battery power is bright
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Sunday, September 20, 2009. The future of cheap battery power is bright. One of the future innovations I've been anticipating is the revolution in battery technology which should take place over the next few decades. In Robert Heinlein's novel Friday. MIT's Technology Review brings to us the recent development of a simple, cheap salt and pepper battery. Created from cellulose and a salt solution. A sixth genera...
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The Common Green American: The Art Of The Eco-Mind Shift
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Sunday, April 24, 2011. The Art Of The Eco-Mind Shift. Changing the paradigms which perpetuate inefficient technologies in our society is one of the biggest barriers to moving to more rational, sustainable technologies. Creating paradigms which harness the natural creative abilities of each of us, to solve sustainability issues is the goal of Natalie Jeremijenko. This TEDtalk. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Common Green American: January 2009
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Thursday, January 8, 2009. Can You Read My Mind? The answer to that may soon be an unqualified yes. Imagine a world where everyone can see through every white lie. Where bluffing is impossible. Where the intentions of terrorists or unscrupulous car sales men can be known immediately. 60 Minutes ran a story. He calls it "thought identification.". Screwdriver isn't one place in the brain. It's many places in ...
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The Common Green American: November 2008
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Sunday, November 23, 2008. Different Currents In The Stream. Here are a few of the stories or websites I thought were of interest this past week. This website at CoolerPlanet.com has some informative interactive maps. Of the country, with different solar power ratings for the various states, local and state and federal incentives for solar systems. You will also find Solar Resource. In the book Limits of Growth.
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The Common Green American: September 2008
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Be A Water Hog. I've been giving a lot of thought to cistern systems, with an eye to adding one to my own household for garden irrigation. This modular cistern system caught my attention as I was googling for different cisterns and rainwater catchment systems. I liked the modular design and it looked like it was fairly easy to work with. It is marketed as the Rainwater HOG. My daugh...
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The Common Green American: April 2011
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Sunday, April 24, 2011. The Art Of The Eco-Mind Shift. Changing the paradigms which perpetuate inefficient technologies in our society is one of the biggest barriers to moving to more rational, sustainable technologies. Creating paradigms which harness the natural creative abilities of each of us, to solve sustainability issues is the goal of Natalie Jeremijenko. This TEDtalk. Links to this post. Amazon Context...
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The Common Green American: Stanford engineers leverage heat to make solar energy competitive with oil
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The Common Green American. 8220;The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay. Friday, August 6, 2010. Stanford engineers leverage heat to make solar energy competitive with oil. Some good news on the solar energy front. Stanford University News reports. That Stanford engineers have figured out a way to use both the light and the heat generated by solar receptors to generate electricity, doubling present efficiency making it potentially it competitive with power generated from oil. The ne...