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Liter of Light Turns Plastic Bottles into Solar Light
What is one of the most ingenious, low-tech inventions you never heard of but which has the potential to brighten the lives of not only people in the third-world but the west as well? Liter of Light of course -...
Sun-Believable: a Solar Paint Advancement
A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame has made a major advance toward this vision by creating an inexpensive "solar paint" that uses semiconducting nanoparticles to produce energy. The advance was made with nano-sized particles of...
FreeWave Technologies Provides Secure, Long-Range Radio Communications
Submarine cable systems between the UK, Canada and Paris became essential in the 1850s as the British government found itself in a situation where it would fight wars, sign treaties and still have thousands of soldiers in the field fighting...
Communications Veteran Tom Evslin on Government Inefficiency
iIt was great to turn on TV and see Tom Evslin the VoIP and telecom visionary and veteran talking about how much waste there is in government and how much of our tax dollars were wasted in stimulus bills which...
Carbon Scrubbing Makes it all Green
One of the most interesting green technologies I have seen is carbon scrubbing where a chemical reaction is used to rid CO2 from the atmosphere. Why is this fascinating to me? Because carbon scrubbing can be done anywhere in the...
Telecom Italia Mobile Goes Solar
While communications and technology solutions have the ability to drastically reduce costs associated with travel by simulating trips via conferencing - telepresence, etc... The reality is technology is also responsible for more and more energy use. Think about all the...
Solar iPhone Case is Handy and Useful
New case from mobile.brando.com.hk is a perfect iPhone companion for the sun I'm always looking for that killer story idea - you know - the one which has all the elements of interest and buzzwords... Like iPhone, green, gadget,...
Solar Roofing Materials
I came across a good article on solar roofing material which focuses on a new technology which is hurricane resistant while being more aesthetically pleasing than traditional solar panels. The article reminds us that in the US, tax credits for...
Fuel Prices Fuel Technology
As fuel prices increase, so does the desire to come up with reasonable alternatives. Some of these efforts revolve around conservation and others have to do with new technologies which make it possible to bypass oil, coal and natural gas.Today...
Solar Keychain
I wonder if the future of conservation will include a strong focus on charging devices on our own. There are people with their own generators for example who actually supply energy back to electric companies. Now, at the opposite...
Daylight Savings Time: OPEC's Friend
Indiana is home to four important things... Interactive Intelligence, some of the best steaks you will find anywhere, some of the nicest people around and really bizarre daylight savings rules that made it virtually impossible to know what time it...
Solar Laptop Bag
Take a break from hugging that tree and open your laptop. No need to feel guilty as your laptop bag charges your laptop, sparing you the guilt associated with using more than your fair share of power....
WiFi Goes Green
Here is an interesting blog post from none other than me :) on TMC’s new green blog. Be sure to click here if you want to learn more about a solar powered municipal WiFi installation....
More On Inveneo
Over a year ago I wrote about a company called Inveneo – a nonprofit producing a bicycle/solar powered VoIP system that can be used in villages where electricity and cell phones are not available. The bike runs on Asterisk and...
