Search Results for: demand response

• Old American Dams Quietly Become a Multibillion-Dollar Threat | Wired Science | Wired.com

  Last week, a Siberian hydroelectric dam failed when an explosion rocked the site’s turbine room, killing dozens and taking 6,000 megawatts of electricity offline.

  While the tragedy’s ultimate causes are unclear, Russian media has been questioning the state of the aging Soviet-made infrastructure. Dams are getting older in the United States, too. The average age of America’s 80,000 dams is 51 years. More than 2,000 dams near population centers are in need of repair, according to statistics released this month by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.

  tags: hydro power, hydroelectric, dams, safety, greenmonktv

• Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs – A Tale From Dust to Dust | the Watt

  If a CFL bulb lasts for longer than 50hrs, then the total life cycle energy consumption of the CFL will be lower than that of an incandescent bulb even though they are more complicated to make.

  tags: cfl, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, incandescent, light bulbs, greenmonktv

• BBC NEWS | South Asia | India crusader plans Green party

  One of India’s leading environmental crusaders is planning to launch the country’s first Green party.

  After his success in forcing old and polluting vehicles off the streets of the eastern city of Calcutta, Subhas Dutta says the time has come to set up a political party to protect the country’s environment.

  tags: india, green party, calcutta, subhas dutta, greenmonktv

• Companies’ CO2 cuts fall short of scientific needs: study

  The world’s 100 largest companies are failing to meet scientific recommendations on cutting CO2 emissions to contain global warming, a new study released Tuesday warned.

  “We are facing a Carbon Chasm,” said the study by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent organisation based in London.

  “To cut emissions in developed economies by the required 80 percent by 2050, we need to see a minimum annual global reduction rate of 3.9 percent” per year, it said.

  “However analysis of reduction targets from the Global 100 companies shows they are currently on track for an annual reduction of just 1.9 percent” per year.

  tags: carbon disclosure project, co2, co2 emissions, cdp, ipcc, greenmonktv

• NASA – NASA Ames Breaks Ground for ‘Greenest’ Federal Building Ever

  NASA today held a ceremonial groundbreaking and dedication event for what is expected to become the highest-performing building in the federal government.

  The new, environmentally friendly building at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. is being named ‘Sustainability Base’ in honor of the first humans to walk on the surface of another world from their Tranquility Base Apollo 11 lunar landing site 40 years ago. It will serve as a highly efficient collaborative support facility providing workspace for a wide range of NASA’s aeronautics and space exploration missions.

  tags: nasa, sustainability, greenmonktv, ames

• First iPhone Augmented Reality App Appears Live in App Store

  French app development shop PresseLite appears to have the first Augmented Reality (AR) supporting iPhone app live in the iTunes store, though we don’t know how they did it. It’s called Metro Paris Subway, and while the app isn’t new, it released a new version last week that added an AR overlay that displays information about Paris businesses when you look at the city through your iPhone’s camera.

  tags: ar, augmented reality, iphone, appstore, greenmonktv

• Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid : NPR

  The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic electricity consumption, has forced experts to critically examine the status and health of the nation’s electrical systems.

  tags: grid, US Electric grid, greenmonktv

• Skin Deep – Confused by Sky-High SPFs? Take a Number – NYTimes.com

  A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, measures how much the product shields the sun’s shorter-wave ultraviolet B rays, known as UVB radiation, which can cause sunburn. It used to be that SPF topped out at 30. No more. These days, a race is on among sunscreen makers to create the highest SPF that R&D can buy.

  If adequately applied, sunscreens with sky-high SPFs offer slightly better protection against lobster-red burns than an SPF 30. But they don’t necessarily offer stellar protection against the more deeply penetrating ultraviolet A radiation, or so-called aging rays.

  tags: sun, sunscreen, spf, greenmonktv

• YouTube – Letter to the Met

  The UK police demanded to know the location of the Camp for Climate Action 2009 – this is Climate Camp’s response.

  THAT is how to send a message. Calmly, reasonably, with good humour and honesty.

  tags: climate camp, Climate Action, climatecamp, climatecamp2009, climatecamp09, greenmonktv

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• Drug Injury Watch: The Tale Of Merck’s Fake Medical Journal As Told At A Vioxx Trial In Australia

  Drug Company Merck Paid Scientific Publisher Elsevier To Produce What Was Essentially A Marketing Publication For Vioxx And Fosamax in the guise of a peer reviewed journal

  tags: merck, elsevier, peer review, ethics, fraud, vioxx, greenmonktv

• Official Google Blog: Reducing our carbon footprint

  In June 2007 Google made a voluntary commitment to become carbon neutral. To honor this commitment, we calculated our global carbon footprint, purchased high-quality carbon offsets, and worked with a third party to certify our calculations and validate our offset portfolio. Through this process, we’ve neutralized all of Google’s 2007 emissions, as well as part of our 2008 emissions. We’ll continue to invest in offset projects until we reach carbon neutrality.

  tags: google, carbon neutral, greenmonktv

• BusinessCar – Vauxhall Ampera:?All you need to know

  General Motors’ Andreas Lassota speaks to Julian Rendell about the new Vauxhall Ampera, due on sale within three years, and details the brand’s plans for the electric-petrol vehicle

  Raised the possibility of poss battery buyback!

  tags: gm, ampera, vauxhall, phev, battery buyback, greenmonktv

• Breakthrough Solar Energy Technology from Israel – New Tang Dynasty Television

  One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells.

  The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feiman’s technology.

  tags: Concentrated solar power, zenith solar, solar, israel, greenmonktv

• DESERTEC Foundation: Concept

  In the coming decades, several global developments will create new challenges for humankind. Climate change, population growth far beyond earth’s capacities, and a striving for prosperity that is invariably connected to a continually increasing demand for energy and water are the core problems with which we are confronted.

  The DESERTEC Concept describes a way to solve these challenges.

  tags: desertec, supergrid, hvdc, eumena, greenmonktv

• The Green Bus Rush: Why Innovators Are Moving Into Transit Tech

  Transit buses may seem an unlikely sector to ever warrant the term “hot,” but a growing number of startups working on next-gen hybrid and electric vehicle technology are looking to buses as a way to weather the downturn and capitalize on shifts in the global economy. With demand for consumer vehicles in the tank, the bus market, buoyed by stimulus funds in the U.S. and a government push for electric buses in China, is one of the more attractive games for clean vehicles in town.

  tags: transit, transit tech, electric bus, greenmonktv

• McKinsey: What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme

  First, we need to trust our science. We do this every time we fly in a jet or rush to the doctor in hope of relief from illness; but now there is some cherry-picking of science going on in the various kinds of resistance to the news about climate change, and this double standard needs to be called out. The so-called climate change skeptics are now simply in denial. All science is skeptical, and the scientific community has looked at this situation and found compelling evidence for anyone with an open mind. Science is telling us that if we keep living the way we do, we will trigger an unstoppable and irreversible climate change that may de-ice the planet and acidify the oceans, causing mass extinction.

  tags: mckinsey, ponzi scheme, climate change, greenmonktv

• PHOTOS: Renault Unveils Revised Electric “Kangoo Z.E.” Prototype

  For those following the ever-expanding Renault-Nissan Alliance, here’s a glimpse of what you’ve been waiting for: the basic prototype for Renault’s upcoming electric vehicles

  tags: renault, nissan, renault nissan, kangoo, electric vehicle, greenmonktv

• Magenn Power Inc.

  MARS is a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, generating electrical energy. This electrical energy is transferred down the 1000-foot tether for immediate use, or to a set of batteries for later use, or to the power grid. Helium sustains MARS and allows it to ascend to a higher altitude than traditional wind turbines.

  tags: wind energy, high altitude wind, magenn, greenmonktv

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