Archive for July, 2008
This is how much Tesla is commited to safety
Following in the footsteps … or skid marks of the Killa Cycle, a Tesla engineer (or soon-to-be-fired parking vallet) managed to smash this baby in live traffic. Whether or not this was an extremely hardcore safety test has not been determined. Nor has there been any word on whether ejected carbon-fiber counts as a carbon [...]
We Add Up Is Totally Killer
I stumbled across the We Add Up campaign yesterday after reading this post on Treehugger. I had to give them some love. The idea is pretty simple: they sell organic cotton t-shirts emblazened with a green tip that anyone can do right now. These include turning your lights off, inflating your tires properly, car pooling, [...]
The Case For an Alternative Energy Driven Boom
Most booms happen on the back of technological change. Think about it:
The boom in the 1980’s which was caused by computers.
The internet boom in the 1990’s.
The mini-booms in the early 2000’s in bio-technology and nano-technology.
And, come to think of it, some of the biggest booms in history have been caused by energy driven technological change. [...]
Integrating Green…Solar Windows, Tesla Roadsters, and One Sweet House
So thanks to Ben’s post, I’m all geared up (pardon the pun) for the Tesla Roadster. It’s a hot car, that (apparently) will get me some fast chicks…or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, I’m game.
But I wonder why, as impressive as the Roadster is, it hasn’t integrated more existing technology into the [...]
Schwarzenegger Gives Finger To New Mexico Tesla Plant
See here. Tesla Motorcars, makers of my new dream car, planned on building a plant in New Mexico (state plant: yucca) to make their next line of vehicles, a $60k sports sedan. The Governator, upon hearing the news, massively laid the smack down, bequeathing a tax exemption on Tesla to keep the plant in Cali. [...]
*Texas is approximately 269 thousand square miles.
I’ve read about the North Pacific Gyre before but I got really attached working on a coming project for Greener Trends. Hearing about how bad it was, I had to see it. It’s pretty prohibitive to do so, but I was hoping that the great power of the Internet would come through. Most of my [...]
This Car Will Get You Serious Chicks
What’s battery operated, makes virtually no noise, has major sex appeal, does 0-60 in four seconds, and costs US$108,000? That’s right, it’s one of the most eco-friendly cars around, the Tesla Roadster. In case you hadn’t heard, the Roadster is the first fully electric two-seater from Tesla Motors, a San Carlo, California startup owned by [...]
Planet: Green Cleaning Products
Shopping at my local grocery store usually proves to be a time of endless label reading frustration. I can’t find products that are easily identifiable as eco-friendly, and this is never truer then when I am attempting to find cleaning products. Luckily, and I have to say to my utter shock and amazement, my grocer [...]
Batteries…to go!
I absolutely hate it when I’m on vacation, taking pictures, and my camera starts to beep at me that I’m running out of batteries. I always mean to carry extras with me, but somehow between packing the rest of my crazy electronics (cell phone, laptop, ipod), and my clothes, I never remember. Well today I [...]
Printing Solar Cells
Silicon electronics are made in a method similar to developing a photograph. You have a certain material (a silicon substrate) that you layer with a chemical that reacts to UV light. You shine something like an overhead projection onto the chip and the silicon you want to keep stays while the parts you want gone dissolve. The process is fantastic for our ever-shrinking phones and electronic devices, but the substrate has to be very pure (down to the atom) which is hard to do for something the size of a window. It’s also a time and money consuming [...]
