Robert Llewellyn’s Gearless Update: Reviewing the MiEV and Much More (Video)
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I was quite excited the other day to learn about Robert Llewellyn’s Gearless show in which he will be driving and reviewing a Mitsubishi MiEV over the course of an entire year. (Robert previously filmed a test drive of the MiEV for his carpool show.) But I wasn’t entirely clear on what exactly he will be doing to fill up the entire year. In the video b…Read the full story on TreeHugger
World Crude Oil Production Projected to Peak a Decade Sooner
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Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com’s Naturally Green section.
Alternative energy efforts received a bit of a boon this week from a study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal Energy & Fuels, which revealed conventional crude oil production might peak in 2014–…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity
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This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator
Images: Studied Impact
It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building. So it with a mixture of cynicism and excitement that we greet proposals such as this. Actually, it’s just a competition entry. But this is Dubai, and you never know….Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage
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TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before, and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores, but we’ve never done much on electric chainsaws. I’m thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface dons his cruelty-free mask and pays us a visit. Although if this serial killer’s competence i…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
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Loblaw Couldn’t Resist Ontario’s Generous Feed-in Tariff?
Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 100 stores in Ontario. This is not surprising considering how insanely generous the feed-in tariffs for solar power are in the province (between 53.9 and 80.2 ยข/kWh, with 20-year contracts). I just hope that measures have been taken to avoid repeating what happened in S…Read the full story on TreeHugger
MIT Scientists Discover a Way to Generate Electricity with Thermopower Waves in Carbon Nanotubes
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Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion
A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled “Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves” published in Nature Materials, they describe how they made “thermopower waves” flow through the nanotubes, generating a significant amount of power relative to the size of the nanotubes. This opens up new areas of research in energy gener…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)
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Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our destinations on commercial airliners, hardly gives a thought to some of the crazy inventions of earlier eras. But clouds are on the horizon. Whether du…Read the full story on TreeHugger
More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors
photo: Alex Lang via flickr.
Here’s a new twist on biomass gasification, one which more or less merges it with solar thermal. Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of the sun to vaporize biomass and turn it into syngas:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon
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Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals. Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That’s right, Paignton zoo is seriously looking at getting into poop power. Elephant poop. And that’s just one element of this innovative zoo’s quest to slash its carbon emissions….Read the full story on TreeHugger
