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Ford uses special cooling system for the battery pack on Focus Electric vehicle

Shane McGlaun, Jun 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Batteries that power an electric vehicle or a hybrid work best when they are cool. Keeping the batteries cool can be a big challenge in some parts of the country during the summer. Ford is getting its new Focus Electric ready to hit the market and since the vehicle will be sold all around the country Ford is working to keep the battery cool in the hotter climates. Read The Full Story

Philips outs world’s first LED substitute for 75W incandescent

Shane McGlaun, May 17th 2011 Discuss [7]

If you follow developments in the world of green gear at all, you know that the incandescent light bulb is not the most efficient means of lighting. These bulbs put out lots of heat and consume lots more power than other light tech like LED of CCFL. The problem is that incandescent bulbs are cheap and the other lights are very expensive. The most common light bulb used in many homes is the venerable 75W bulb with just the right amount of light for many needs. Read The Full Story

YikeBike now comes in cheaper alloy version

Shane McGlaun, May 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

In many large cities, a number of people choose to ride bikes rather than drive or take public transportation. There are many reasons for this from not having to sit next to weirdo riders to exercise. For the people that need a little help on their ride to keep from getting too tired there are a number of bikes on the market that are electric to give a little boost for longer rides. Late last year we talked about one of those new electric bikes called the YikeBike. Read The Full Story

Ford goes green using dandelion roots to make interior parts for cars and trucks

Shane McGlaun, May 12th 2011 Discuss [3]

The lengths that Ford goes to make its vehicles green and energy efficient never cease to amaze me. Sure, the company uses recycled materials like plastic and metal in its cars. It uses old tires to make other parts of the cars and trucks, and Ford is now going green and using a weed that I am always trying to kill in my yard. Ford has found a way to use the lowly dandelion in its car construction. Read The Full Story

First Pipeline-Fed Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens Up In Southern California

Rue Liu, May 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Southern California is usually where we get news of celebs driving around in their hybrids or fuel-cell cars and being all green and mighty. Now, they can add another star to their clean energy scorecard. Thanks to Shell and some land leased from Toyota, there is now a brand new hydrogen-fueling station that's the first of its kind. Read The Full Story

Jaguar to build limited run of C-X75 supercars with gas and electric power

Shane McGlaun, May 6th 2011 Discuss [3]

We talk about awesome cars here on occasion if they use some sort of green tech in their design. In November of 2010, we talked a bit about the cool Jaguar C-X75 that at the time was a pure EV with four electric motors supplemented by jet engines (seriously). Each of those electric motors was situated in a wheel and the sexy ride has a lot of carbon fiber in its construction. The car was a concept, but Jag has announced that it will actually build a limited number of the cars. Read The Full Story

How Green is Your iPhone?

Kevin Fubar, Apr 22nd 2011 Discuss [2]

It's Earth Day, right? And I'm a dirty hippie. I think about environmental issues a lot. Like many people I like the sound of birdsong more than car horns. I actually spent half of last year canvassing with Texas Campaign for the Environment. We were fighting to improve electronics recycling throughout my home state. Being the gigantic geek that I am, I spent a lot of time learning as much as possible about these issues. Looking forward over the next twenty years our production/consumption/waste cycles are the place where we can do the most good. Dealing with our waste products, whether in the form of gaseous carbon emissions, land-filled garbage, or industrial waste is our generation's great challenge moving forward into the future. Our friends over at geekaphone released this informative infographic giving you some idea of the scale of this issue as it relates to your iPhone. Read The Full Story

Earth Day Driving Tips from Telenav

Kevin Fubar, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Tomorrow is Earth Day. We only get one of this Pale Blue Dot to play on and not everyone can afford to immediately upgrade to a hybrid or electric vehicle, as much as we might like to. So here's some driving facts and some tips about driving greener. And remember, sustainability is also about saving money, and with fuel topping $3.84 a gallon we need all of the help we can get. Hopefully these tips will help you save a few bucks at the pump. Read The Full Story

Apple’s eco-cred slated in Greenpeace data center report

Chris Davies, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

Apple has been named the least green of tech companies in a controversial new Greenpeace evaluation, due to its use of energy from coal-fueled power stations. The league table – which ranks Yahoo! as the greenest company, followed by Google and Amazon – is part of Greenpeace’s “How Dirty is Your Data?” report that will be released today. It suggests that Apple’s new North Carolina data center – expected to be the epicenter of new MobileMe and cloud-based services – will triple the company’s electricity consumption.

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University of Maine creates golf ball out of lobster shells

Shane McGlaun, Apr 14th 2011 Discuss [13]

We lived near a golf course when I was a kid and we thought it was great fun to grab the balls as they rolled down the fairway. What we didn't realize was that the golfers were hitting those balls from over the hill and they didn’t appreciate at all that we swiped their balls. We moved to wading in the water hazards gathering up the balls sitting on the bottom of the pond. Read The Full Story

There and Back Again: Turning Plastic Into Oil

Samia Perkins, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [4]

We are producing ever larger amounts of plastic waste. There is enough plastic in the Pacific Ocean gyre to fill Texas twice, and there are two trillion pounds of plastic sitting in US landfills. And at the same time, oil prices are going up at a rapid rate. Well, an Oregon company called Agilyx may have a solution to both of these pressing problems. The company has a patented method of converting plastic waste into synthetic crude oil. Read The Full Story

Google buys 49% of German solar power plant

Shane McGlaun, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [3]

Google has big dreams and it's much more than a search engine that it started out as. We all know the company branched off into the smartphone market with Android and is doing very well and it has a lot more up its sleeves. Google is also heavily into alternative energy. Read The Full Story