Archive for the ‘New Green Ideas’ Category

23
Jul
2008

Breaking our addiction to Foreign Oil, the T.Boone Pickens way…

July 23rd, 2008 at 08:00 am by bibi in Alternative Energy, Carbon Footprint, Economy, Energy, Environment, Environmental Politics, Green Action, Living Green, New Green Ideas, Pickens Plan, energy-plan, t.boone-pickens

T. Boone Pickens sounds like he could be a country singer, he’s even got a little bit of a twang, but he’s singing the “we are addicted to foreign oil blues…”

If you’ve never heard of T. Boone Pickens, he is a billionaire who made his money in oil, mergers and acquisitions of oil companies and is often referred to as a corporate raider and greenmailer. He is also known as an activist in the political arena as well as an animal rights champion and a philanthropist in the humanitarian and education causes.

According to his bio on Wikipedia, Pickens has been talking about alternative energy sources to oil since 1997, when he “began touting natural gas as the best vehicular fuel alternative because it’s a domestic resource”, pushing for Nuclear Energy and other Alternative Energies such as wind power. Now this is also around the time that he formed a corporation now called Clean Energy that owns and operates natural gas fueling stations from British Columbia to the Mexican border.

That being said, his personal reasons for coming up with this plan may seem partially self-serving, and only he knows the answer to that. It’s not a bad plan, maybe not a perfect plan but it is a plan, we went through a similar thing back in the 70’s, let 30 years lapse without a plan and here we are again. I believe a plan is better than no plan, anything to get the oil monkey off our back, out of pockets and out of our air.

Check it out for yourself go to his website and see what you think, get involved if you want…Pickens Plan

bibi

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31
Jan
2008

Teleconfrencing By Hologram…

January 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am by bibi in Environment, Green Action, Green Knowledge, Green News, Innovation, New Green Ideas

Prince Charles made a big splash by attending the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi last week, in Greener fashion then most other attendees. He arrived by 3D Hologram.Amazing most attendees, the Prince appeared out of thin air, just like in the movies.The whole 6 minute clip was previously video taped in the United Kingdom. Part of the reason that the Prince decided to show up in his “Green Suit” was a response to British press criticism of his trip to the US last year to pick up an environmental award. By not appearing in person he avoided adding 20 tons of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.

Musion Systems is the British company that provided this new technology, The Musion® Eyeliner™ is a high definition holographic video projection system allowing spectacular 3-dimensional moving images to appear within a live stage setting using Pepper’s Ghost technology. Eyeliner™ brings dramatic, previously unseen 21st century video film effects to live events, including audiovisual artistic performances, conference or trade show presentations, retail displays and large-scale digital signage.Unfortunately the technology is not at the point where it can deliver “Live Telepresence”, due to data flow constraints. (source: The New York Times)

But it’s coming…Until the technology catches up with Star trek, in the mean time we can take advantage of Broadband and use technologies like Skype and others like it to communicate with business partners and colleagues, without having to get in our cars or Jets.

Check out the Video…

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bibi

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29
Oct
2007

What Happened To Water Powered Cars? Is gasonline Dead?

October 29th, 2007 at 04:26 pm by bibi in Environment, Go Green, Green Action, Green Cars, Green Knowledge, New Green Ideas, Public Awareness

Today’s news reported that the average gallon of gas in America will reach $3.00 soon. With the price of gas going through the roof, again, it’s time for a change: No?

What ever happened to the technology that was patented to convert H2O into HHO, that could run a car for 100 miles on 4oz of water. This technology was to change the world or at least the power balance in the world. Could this technology be the end of gasoline as we know it? Imagine a world where the Shieks and the Chavez’s don’t hold the rest of the world hostage.

Luckily the technology has not gone away, it has been patented and in the works is a Vehicle System that will run a car on a Hybrid System of H2O and Gasoline, and so far it is scheduled to make it’s debut in 2008. A totally water powered vehicle is also in the works but it will be coming out some time later.

Denny Cline of Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc., in Clearwater, Florida have come up with the technology for a Water Powered Car. They have Patented a technology that takes Water (H2O) and brakes it down into HHO Gas or Aquygen (its trademark name). They have also come up with a prototype Hybrid, being tested as we speak, that uses regular gas infused with Aquygen. In trials gas mileage improved 50% adding an extra 200 miles to the gas mileage. They say that an adapter for cars will be available soon, maybe as soon as 2008.

The big thing about this new technology is, that it is very eco-firendly. Once combusted this HHO Gas turns back into Water, making it the “Clean Fuel of the Future” as they have coined it. The lack of pollutants makes it the ultimate alternative fuel and it is getting a lot of interest from Government, Auto and Aeronautical Companies alike.

Could this Technology be the end of Fossil Fuels? Let’s hope.

Check out these Videos…

How the Technology Began

Tanking the Technology to Cars

How the whole thing works

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bibi

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20
Oct
2007

X-Treme Computing Off the Grid

October 20th, 2007 at 03:37 pm by bibi in Environment, Go Green, Green Living, New Green Ideas, Public Awareness

Found a great article on going green with your laptop. For those that need to be out in Nature for work or just those that can’t be away from their computers for more than an hour and love to go outdoors, there is a new way to enjoy both at the same time.

Solar power panels for your laptop are available at a reasonable price , can be used for direct use or storage and give you the flexibility that having to plug in to grid doesn’t.

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bibi

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19
Oct
2007

Crafting With Recycled Materials

October 19th, 2007 at 01:59 am by bibi in Green Action, Green Crafting, New Green Ideas, Recycle

On October the 15th, a fellow blogger, Cindy from MyRecycledBags.Com put forth a great idea as her action post. The idea is to Craft with recycled materials. I want to share this with you because she has many great ideas of crafts that can be made with a myriad of recycled materials, using plastic bags, bread bags, VCR tape, cassette tapes, old denim, and other recycled fabric to craft with.

Check out her post: Crafting with Recycled Materials

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bibi

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11
Oct
2007

Tire Recycling: Did you know?

October 11th, 2007 at 01:16 am by bibi in Green Action, Green Knowledge, Green Living, New Green Ideas, Public Awareness, Recycle

Did You Know?

It takes seven gallons of oil to produce one tire. Five gallons of butadiene and styrene gasoline comprises the substances that tires are made out of, and two gallons of gas are used to generate the energy needed to manufacture the tires.

Dumping waste tires in non-designated areas is hazardous to our health and to our natural habitat, AND it is against the law.

An estimated 250 million waste tires are discarded every year.

If you and your parents perform certain tire maintenance steps such as rotation, inflation, balance, and alignment, you can extend tire life and decrease waste tire generation by 15 percent.

It is important to recycle your tires because improper disposal/illegal dumping can result in fires that are difficult to extinguish. When tire piles catch fire, the melted rubber generates oil that can pollute surface and groundwater. Furthermore, tire piles tend to collect water creating a perfect breeding space for disease carrying animals such as mosquitoes, snakes, and rats.

How are they recycled, and what are they made into?

In the USA, reusing or recycling tires keeps them out of landfills. When buying new tires, leave your old ones with the dealer. Many communities have designated recycling drop-off centers where you can safely and responsibly dispose of your tires.

The majority of recycled waste tires are used as a source of energy, otherwise known as tire-derived fuel or TDF. When heated in combustion facilities, most notably in cement kilns, pulp and paper mill boilers, and power utility boilers, energy is produced and used as fuel to power these facilities.

Waste tires can also be used to make many useful objects. When all non-rubber material is removed from the tires, rubber chips are left over to make crumb-rubber modified asphalt, which is used to pave highways. Waste tires can also be made into doormats, water hoses, shoe soles, door stoppers, playground and athletic surfaces, non-slip products, sheet rubber for manufacturing products, and artificial reefs for marine life habitats.

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bibi

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17
Sep
2007

An Extreme Locavore Experiment: Gone Awry

September 17th, 2007 at 02:51 pm by bibi in General, Green Action, Green Knowledge, Green Living, Green News, New Green Ideas

The Locavore movement originated in San Francisco and has spread coast to coast as more and more people look for ways to cut down on the resources used to grow and transport the food we eat. Instead they choose to buy locally grown foods that also support Local Farmers. This is a great idea and if it really catches on across the country it would really cut down on the resources used by the trucks and trains to transport all the foods that we find in our supermarkets. Of course it would also limit the variety of foods available in each region of the country. Everything can not be grown everywhere. Every region has its own weather, and can only sustain certain types of fruits and vegetables. But it helps to use what Local Farmers have to offer.

Some folks, “Extreme Locavores “, go even as far as growing everything themeselves, including the animals they eat. One man in Brooklyn, New York decided that he would try being one of these people and set out to create his farm in his 800 sq ft. back yard in Brooklyn. But his attempt to eat only what he grows, turned out to be harder and more expensive that originally thought.

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bibi

10 Tips to an Organic Garden

July 29th, 2007 at 11:31 pm by bibi in Green Action, Green Homes, New Green Ideas

Improve your soil. Find a local nursery and take them a sample of your soil. They can test it and tell you what you need to improve it.

Let the good bugs do their work. Beneficial Insects

Choose the right plants. Choose types that are resistant to disease and pests and are not water hogs. Also choose many different types of plants, makes you less vulnerable to diseases.

Don’t jump for the chemicals at the first sign of bugs. Most bugs are beneficial in the garden. Try knocking the bugs off with a spray of water, or cutting off the diseases area of the plant.

Avoid using pesticides, they end up killing more than you intend.

Choose Native plants, they are already adapted to your environment and will require less time and effort from you.

Weeds Happen! Get used to it. Try ground covers you can step on or crowding them out by spacing planting s closer together.

Fertilize Naturally. Composting

Water Smartly.
- Water less frequently but for longer periods of time. This will give your garden a deeper watering and promote deeper roots.
- Water between 5 am and 10 am, so that water is less wasted through evaporation, and leaves have time to dry out.