Posted in Green Technology on Sep 14th, 2011
Let the election year scandals begin! A top congressional investigator said on Tuesday that he believes more companies that benefitted from the stimulus bill’s renewable energy loan guarantee program will go bankrupt before all allotted funds are spent. Congressional Investigator: More Solar Bankruptcies to Come Lachlan Markay Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:49:16 GMT
Posted in Green Technology on Aug 3rd, 2011
According to analysts, this assault on Ohio’s coal-burning power plants transfers directly into at least 10 plant shutdowns — from North Bend to Beverly — and over 1,000 job losses. According to a report from the United Mine Workers of America, national job losses associated with the closure of EPA-targeted coal units could be [...]
Posted in Green Technology on Jul 11th, 2011
Here is the comment I made on The Foundry blog to this post, EPA Set to Implement Economically Ruinous Regulations on Power Plants. I love breathing clean air and seeing clean water, too. One of the best ways is to drive right through the heart of coal country, West Virginia. My son goes to school [...]
Posted in Green Technology on Jul 6th, 2011
My boss and I are engineers and share a passion for the technical side of green technology. This is a good resource page for basic solar and wind calculations. This is a simplified, "lay persons’" overview of how solar energy systems calculations are made. The solar estimates provided via our solar estimators are much more [...]
Posted in Green Technology, Things that make me go hmm... on Dec 1st, 2010
I found it curious that my electric company was very insistent that I accept their offer for a free case of CFL lights. A small popup window would appear every time I tried to pay my electric bill. I didn’t need the bulbs since I already had replaced my lights and I had extra bulbs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On this day, the Virginia Tech community reflects on the vibrant lives of the 32 students and faculty who were tragically taken from us a year ago. Through light, art, and music we pay tribute to each and every person we lost. We gather to honor our friends, colleagues, and family members. We will never forget.