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Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-83296956189145145292010-07-08T23:33:00.000-07:002015-03-04T13:48:24.193-08:002010First US EV Fast Charger Gets Installed in… Vacaville! Lake Erie Non Profit LEEDCo Wins GE Turbines ExxonMobil Shareholders Demand Natural Gas Fracking Risk AssessmentHouse/Senate Jump for Electric Vehicle Legislation in Climate BillInventor Uses Biomimicry to Create DewFirst US State to Codify Law for Carbon Sequestration is WyomingPeak Day Pricing Begins for Large Commercial PG&E Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-53287981979857268332009-10-17T14:51:00.000-07:002009-10-17T14:53:35.100-07:00How Fort Irwin Just Signed The Largest Solar Farm in Dept of Defense History: 1,000 MW Written by Susan Kraemer Published on October 16th, 2009 Posted in business, solar energy <!-- if (document.referrer.indexOf("http://digg.com/") === 0) { jQuery('').insertBefore('.post > .entry'); digg_related({domain:"cleantechnica.com",container:"#digg-related",width:"",height:"",endPoint:"stories/upcoming"}); } //--> In a win-wIn move for Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-69005697143892639762009-10-17T14:46:00.000-07:002009-10-17T14:48:41.898-07:0060% of US States Could Supply 100% of Their Own Power From Renewable Energy, New Rules Project Shows Written by Susan Kraemer Published on October 17th, 2009 Posted in policy, solar energy, wind energy <!-- if (document.referrer.indexOf("http://digg.com/") === 0) { jQuery('').insertBefore('.post > .entry'); digg_related({domain:"cleantechnica.com",container:"#digg-related",width:"",height:"",endPoint:"stories/upcoming"}); } //--> Using just Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-30773643078713447482009-02-01T00:02:00.000-08:002009-02-07T12:28:01.567-08:00Prius Powers Home in Ice StormIce Storm Victim Improvises Prius-to-Home Energy GeneratorA Massachusetts man - faced with no power in the recent ice storm, powered up the family Prius to create electricity: The hybrid car made enough electricity to run the essentials; the fridge, the lights, the TV, the wood-stove fan. During the power outage, it supplied 17 Kilowatt hours of energy to his home for three days.How did he do it?Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-91983467698145635442009-01-31T23:48:00.000-08:002009-02-01T00:21:27.849-08:00Your Clothes Dryer could Make Electricity TooClothes dryers throw off waste heat that could be a useful form of energy --if it could just be harnessed.Even enough energy to run half of all your household appliances. Co-generation; sometimes called combined heat and power (CHP) is already starting to be used by factories and data centers to save energy by creating both heat and power. But until now, low heat has not been harnessed in Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-55726438680140248772009-01-07T12:19:00.000-08:002009-02-07T12:22:54.227-08:00Inventor Wants to Geo-Engineer a Planetwide "Refrigerator"Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street:Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for "a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.""The Earth has a giant air-conditioning problem," he said. "I'm Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-17146309681770473852008-12-18T11:12:00.000-08:002009-02-07T12:24:05.356-08:00The Synergy of Solar Panels and GreenerySolar panels don't have to fight for space on green roofs. Two experts suggest combining solar with green roofs works best.If a solar roof is placed over plants, both the roof and the plants do better. The plants make the solar panels more efficient, because their evaporation cools the back of the exposed panels. Solar panels work better when they are cool.Likewise, the dappled shade that the Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-38511129363587410472008-12-17T11:59:00.000-08:002009-02-07T12:09:14.948-08:00Investors Demand Climate Risk DisclosureInvestors are becoming increasingly concerned about potential regulatory risks and economic dangers in a carbon-constrained world A group of 65 leading US investors with collective assets totaling $7 trillion has teamed up with the European investment management firm, F&C Investment to put a halt to Wall Street financial regulators softening of the rules on tar sands reserves disclosed by oilSusan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-323607967668729532008-12-10T09:50:00.001-08:002009-01-27T07:24:22.300-08:00I've Got MineIt is well known of course that the rich and their descendants will be completely immune to climate change. Thus, many of them have been driving efficiency-challenged cars that carelessly drain the last of the world's oil, making their carbon footprint heavier than that of lesser beings.So, from a climate-change point of view; who better to target with the security of their own driveway supply toSusan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-2075741109039020192008-12-10T08:10:00.000-08:002009-01-21T09:12:01.509-08:00A $50 Billion CalCars Plan to Save DetroitAs the age of oil ends we have stopped buying the cars Detroit makes, so now they don't have the money to build the fuel efficient vehicles we do need.Yet many near-term solutions such as the Volt (which had been on track for 2010) could have driven us out of the age of oil. We have come to an impasse.An interesting idea CalCars founder Felix Kramer is proposing would be a way to generate $50 Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-79298408495317291682008-12-04T10:48:00.000-08:002009-01-21T09:16:37.825-08:00Let's Pay Detroit To Bring Their Gas Sipping Cars Home To The U.S.A.Who hasn't been enraged to read about how Ford and G.M. can make perfectly good little gas sippers in Europe, but just can't bring themselves to make a fuel efficient car for us back home?Well, now that they need some funding from us, here's an idea. Let's fund Detroit just to set up their efficient European car factories — back here, where they are really needed. Let's get some better gas Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-85513675388152688342008-12-02T11:51:00.000-08:002009-02-07T12:03:05.249-08:00Life-form with Million Year LifespanMicrobes Devise Superior Evolutionary Strategy One of the prerequisites for us humans to achieve interstellar travel is faster spaceships. But what if we could do the opposite: what if instead we could evolve as slower people?Imagine us with million year lifespans. Imagine if we lived on a geologic timescale.If we could live a million years, then travel to a star 60,000 light years away would Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-78148667776517182302008-11-27T16:46:00.000-08:002008-12-08T21:16:06.915-08:00LEED to Rate Solar-Powering Your City: WorthlessOr they they will… unless you weigh in:California has a requirement that all new buildings be zero carbon by 2020; every electron a building uses must come from power generated onsite. Obama plans the same requirement nationwide by 2030. So you would think that to meet their new neighborhood certification, on-site renewable energy would be a LEED requirement, not just an option. But it won’t be. Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-59895182215772595072008-11-26T07:49:00.000-08:002008-12-09T14:49:12.824-08:00The Real Wall Street BailoutA mere few centuries after they founded Nieuw Amsterdam , a distant settlement that came to be known as New York City; the worlds leading experts in sea-level adaptations may see their former colony drowned. But will Dutch dykes be enough to save Nieuw Amsterdam?Beginning with just over three feet of sea level rise, the impact on the US would be calamitous, having the potential to destabilize Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-11686247621845768422008-11-20T07:39:00.000-08:002008-11-25T09:24:23.117-08:00Wildfire-Proof Prefab Camp Closes Up When You're GoneIf you live in dangerous drought conditions, wildfires are a worry.So imagine a campsite dwelling designed so that you can easily just close it up entirely, completely concealed inside a fireproof sheath, whenever you are away. It is perfect for sites like this isolated area of drought-ridden Australia.When closed, this prefab is completely sheathed in copper. This protects the 10 x10 foot Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-526164786474634342008-11-17T22:16:00.000-08:002008-12-06T10:00:09.722-08:00Rensselaer Researchers Nano-Engineer Solar to ‘Near Perfect’ Efficiency Nano-engineering students at Rensselaer have created a solar power game-changer: more than 96% absorption of sunlight from all angles, from sunrise to sunset. The two biggest efficiency hurdles for solar efficiency have been: 1. Solar cells absorb only part of the light spectrum.2. The sun always moves in relation to the panel. To solve problem number one, researchers nano-invented an Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-26232887692557415102008-11-17T19:23:00.000-08:002008-11-17T17:11:44.664-08:00Homo Sapiens Redesign: Homo SustainabiliusI just knew Mother Nature would figure something out! The 6 Billion of us is such a tight squeeze on this planet, with our unsustainable ways!Ecologists say that eventually climate change will shrink all species. They don't say, but, well, won't that include our own species?It turns out the degradation of environments around the world due to climate change is limiting food availability, and as a Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-56456817285416768102008-11-16T08:15:00.000-08:002009-02-12T09:22:08.833-08:00A Federal Investment Bank For Renewable EnergyWith the current financial crisis, the US has become like a typical third world nation –it’s now practically impossible to get investment debt financing, even for renewable energy for electricity we need, and with the paybacks of solar, geothermal and wind power. Ever since the 60’s, the US Government has helped developers and lenders finance projects in the developing world where commercial Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-36574972475828789942008-11-15T09:47:00.000-08:002009-02-12T09:21:37.776-08:00How to Build a Zero Carbon America FastHere's an idea for legislation to get more solar roofs up fast and cheaply, even during the current financial meltdown:How? Write a law saying that if homeowners want to put in a solar roof, then their utility MUST then forward their electricty bill payments to the solar company till the roof has been paid off by the homeowner, and the utility MUST accept the electrons being added to their grid Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-14303132217988235342008-11-11T09:56:00.000-08:002008-11-20T08:08:10.963-08:00Obama Wins The Nano Vote TooWe know that 76 Nobel Laureates endorsed Obama.So much for Big Science.But what about little science?Very teeny?Elections do have consequences for every aspect of science, from the greatest Nobel Laureates to the humblest specks of nano stuff.Looks like they went heavily Obama, too.And no wonder, with the war on science we just survived.The kind assistant Professor John Hart of the University of Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-61240452443814091782008-11-09T14:30:00.000-08:002008-11-10T10:41:12.205-08:00Lightweight Metal Foam Makes Autos SaferAlmost half a million invested by the National Science Foundation over the last 5 years has just yielded a space age material so light and strong that it makes a 28 mile per hour crash feel like a gentle fender blip at 5 mph. Afsaneh Rabiei has invented a metal foam with such a high strength-to-density ratio that it could revolutionize the auto industry. She says it isn't the first metal foam, Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-3735193519307559272008-11-01T09:33:00.000-07:002008-12-08T21:14:22.528-08:00Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs. Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds.But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap home anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from “a rubbish pile somewhere.”They had Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-40185296169013527202008-11-01T08:02:00.000-07:002008-11-10T10:33:11.411-08:00World's First Ocean Powered Continent? More than a third of Australia's power could be generated by wave technology, according to a report just filed by the engineers who provide scientific measurements for, of all things, the offshore oil industry.This would make Australia the first entire continent that could actually get a good chunk of its power from wave energy. RPS MetOcean, the oceanographic measurement firm found that the Susan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061030659295394976.post-1740172273706301522008-10-28T20:10:00.001-07:002008-12-09T14:52:00.807-08:00Heartland State Funds A Post-Ethanol EconomyA Midwestern state ferments a new brew with a $150 million investment in new bio energytechnologiesWisconsin is a corn ethanol state, and the people of Wisconsin currently pay $19 billion a year out of state to get 70% of their electricity from coal. But they are about to change both of these energy sources and move to a more sustainable economy for their future.Governor Jim Doyle plans to investSusan Kraemerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842660669585256557noreply@blogger.com