clean energy

Have you ever noticed when walking around the neighborhood that very few people have their front door open. In the summer the AC is on and the houses are locked down. Specifically these newer developments since none of the houses are built with screen doors. 

I live in Calif in a area that it consistently can reach 100 through the summer. We recently installed a innovative screen door system on all the doors and now use them everyday and have yet to use our AC. 

Check it out - highly recommended: 

http://www.clearviewdoor.com/home/home.html » read more

A terrific article in the NY Times this morning on capturing wind energy in the form of compressed air. One issue with wind is that it only produces energy when it is blowing. Storing the excess in batteries or using it to turn sea water into hydrogen to drive fuel cells are some alternatives.

But storing the wind in the form of compressed air that can then be released later to drive power generators when and where it's needed most is a new twist.

The Times article says:  » read more

Thank you to all who contacted their representative and senator last week!!! It was amazing how Bush just went quiet after last Wednesday. Apparently he's on the move again, and EDF has mobilized a petition--the text of which I wanted to share.

Coming soon I will have a cost analysis of the mobilization required after Pearl Harbor was attacked in '41.

I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. -- Legendary Texas Oilman, T. Boone Pickens » read more

Clean Tech Investment Opportunities on the Rise… » read more

Every day the top headlines of every news program are about the high oil prices, the new record price of a barrel of oil etc. This is not new news, and I find it funny how quickly everyone forgets the Oil Crisis of 1973!

Here we are again as oil consumers, bowing to OAPEC and the Arab nations. Thirty five years later, everyone jumped into big SUVs and forgot what happens when our oil consumption rises from an economical viewpoint, let alone an environmental viewpoint. » read more