Posted in Green Technology on Jun 22nd, 2008
Last Monday I saw a show on ethanol, KET: Kentucky Tonight – Ethanol, and learned several things. It was a round table and the participants were all closely aligned to agriculture and corn.
Todd Barlow, executive director of the Kentucky Corn Growers Association
Mark Haney, a Pulaski County fruit and cattle farmer and first vice [...]
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Posted in Climate Change, Green Technology on Feb 21st, 2008
BLACKSBURG, Va., February 19, 2008 — A Virginia Tech student has created a floor lamp powered by gravity.
Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (concentration in industrial design) from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp when he was an industrial design graduate [...]
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Posted in Climate Change, Green Technology on Jan 31st, 2008
What is needed is for the Congress to pass a law requiring that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled - able to run on any combination of alcohol or gasoline fuel. Such cars are existing technology - in fact about 24 different models of flex-fuel cars were produced by the Detroit [...]
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