Tag: Electricity - Page 8
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CES 2011: Smart Plugs and Energy Monitors from Intelligy, Current Cots, Modlet and More
The connected home is a big theme at this year's CES, and part of that is the use of smart plugs and monitors for managing home energy consumption. There are no small number of adapters and equipment for both at the plug and
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CES 2011: eddy Wind Turbine Vies For a Spot on Your Roof
Urban Green Energy is showing off eddy, their urban wind turbine, at CES. The vertical wind turbine can be installed in under an hour, and has a 20-year life span. This is their 600 watt model, though they have higher capacity
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Ferran Adrià 's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Emissions with Architect Enric Ruiz-Geli's Smartgrid
Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed
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Solid-State Transformers Will Make the Smart Grid Run Smoother
As the smart grid grows, smarter technologies are be needed to handle issues like incorporating
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Media Spreads Scare Stories About Cost of Low Carbon Future
Image credit: J Nathan Matias, used under Creative Commons license. Massive hikes in energy bills are nothing new, and some even say that rising energy costs may have caused the Great Recession. But some folks are now using the inevitability of more
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Hydrogen Community Lolland - the Future is Here
In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland, located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they
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Biggest Smart Grid Challenge Facing Utilities? Consumer Education.
There are myriad challenges utility companies face as we work to upgrade our electrical grid. However, there is one that stands out as easily fixable. The stories we've heard over the past year about
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Two Years After the Tennessee Spill, Coal Ash Still Pollutes Nationwide
Elisa Young became active against coal when she started wondering what was making people in her town so sick. She lives in Racine, a town in Meigs County,
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People Power Bring ESP to the Smart Grid (Video)
Image via People Power People Power, a company we first learned about a couple years ago at West Coast Green, is moving into more serious territory than the energy-saving Facebook app launched earlier this year. Current trends show we're on a path to
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Is WiFi Killing Our Trees?
Three years ago I wrote an April Fools post about the supposed effect of Electromagnetic Force on Trees. Now it appears that life imitates art, as a Dutch study at
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The Path to Lithium Batteries: Friend or Foe?
Photo Credit: Argonne National Laboratory/Creative Commons Fixing America's infrastructure (and many other countries') is high on the priority list of greenies and world leaders alike. Two solutions, smart grids and electric cars, are championed by many
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Fridge Igloo Delivers Message: Waste Is The Biggest Resource
Shades of Fridgehenge; now we have the Fridge Igloo. Moritz Bappert visited artist Ralf Schmerberg's igloo built from 322 old fridges in Hamburg.
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Smart Grids are a Dumb Idea
Source: Ecomii Infrastructure is getting lots of attention. One area specifically is smart grids. They are to replace the current out-of-date energy grid that supplies energy to the US. Advocates say it is necessary to modernize the electrical system to
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Germany's Problem: Too Much Solar Power
The electricity grid in Germany is actually in trouble because of too much solar power feeding into it. At least that's what the chairman of the DENA agency, which advises the government on energy, has warned.
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Nespresso Battery: Feel-Good Phony Environmentalism And Greenwashing
The content of all batteries (old capsules and coffee
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Five Foundational Smart Grid Standards Pinpointed
The smart grid industry can't move forward very quickly if everyone working on it is designing with different standards in mind. The whole point of the new grid is to have everything functioning as a
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Biofuel's Bumpy Road: The Trials and Tribulations of Algae, Palm Oil, Bioelectricity, Feedstocks, & Birds
The biofuel craze passed a while ago and more sober assessments of their promises and problems took over, but that doesn't mean by a long shot that there isn't plenty of interesting ongoing work being done. Here's just a
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Smiling Switch Makes You Happy to Conserve Electricity
Would making your switches look adorable help you to conserve energy? A design by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu tests the theory. The switch is circular, and when you've turned it off, it looks like it is smiling
