 - Manned Cloud: Fly High Without Polluting Sky - Ecofriend
 Nov 10, 2007 9:06pm  (10 reviews) alternative-energy, design http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/manned-cl...
Someday we'll all live on barren, featureless plains and travel around on giant, slow moving air-whales.
- Windbelt Micro-wind, 10 Times Cheaper Wind Energy!! - JETSONGREEN.COM
- Oct 23, 2007 1:22pm (47 reviews) alternative-energy, technology, diy http://www.jetsongreen.com/2007/10/windb...
Microwind generator, very cool.
- 40% efficient solar cells to be used for solar electricity
- Jun 1, 2007 5:25pm (4 reviews) alternative-energy http://www.physorg.com/news99904887.html
- ScienceDaily: 3D Solar Cells Boost Efficiency While Reducing Size, Weight...
- Apr 14, 2007 12:03am (1 review) alternative-energy, technology, solar-energy http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
- ScienceDaily: More Efficient Wind Turbine Blade Designed
- Mar 20, 2007 4:39pm (3 reviews) alternative-energy, science, technology, energy http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
- From the page: "More Efficient Wind Turbine Blade Designed
Science Daily -- " A new wind turbine blade design that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed in partnership with Knight & Carver (K&C) of San Diego promises to be more efficient than current designs. It should significantly reduce the cost-of-energy (COE) of wind turbines at low-wind-speed sites."
- ScienceDaily: New Biofuels Process Promises To Meet All US Transportation...
- Mar 19, 2007 7:32pm (4 reviews) alternative-energy http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
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Now all we need to do is wait for the greedy bastards to get involved in the process and decide the cheapest source of biomass for their biofuels is oil and chemical dependent, high polluting agribusiness products or rainforests and endangered species habitat. But they will still push their product as being "green" and good for the environment.
- http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/productstory;jsessionid=...
- Mar 5, 2007 5:07pm (2 reviews) home-improvement, alternative-energy, solar-energy, diy, solar http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea...
All polymer, install-it-yourself solar hot water system, "Hot2o".
- YouTube - Earthships 101 part I
- Mar 5, 2007 2:24pm (29 reviews) architecture, environment, alternative-energy, video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jdIm7gr...
- Short video on Earthships, environmentally friendly, off the grid homes.
- New Wave-Pump Technology Hits the Water
- Mar 1, 2007 4:49am
 (1 review) alternative-energy http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea...
"According to INRI's calculations, the company's wave-pump technology is capable of generating an average of 755 megawatts of hydroelectric energy for every 1 square mile pump field, assuming ocean swells averaging at least 9 feet. With swells of at least 5 feet, a 1 square mile pump field could generate approximately 242 MW."
- Mexican Office Tower without Air Conditioning (TreeHugger)
- Mar 1, 2007 4:39am (3 reviews) architecture, environment, alternative-energy, design http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/...
Office building designed not to need air conditioning
"Catalan architect Carme Pinos has designed an office building that is supposed to keep cool without AC through careful shading, natural ventilation, fans and convection."
"The triangular office floors are clad in a double skin: the floors were first wrapped in a glass facade [a great deal of which consists of operable windows], which is then masked by the horizontal wood slat paneling seen in the photographs. Workers can step out on to a grating system and push/pull these panels into their desired positions, providing control over the level of daylighting in their specific work space."
"This `double skin' provides enough natural ventilation that the building rarely [maybe never] needs air conditioning [remember, it's in Guadalajara]. Natural ventilation [and lighting] is also utilize within the open central `atrium' space, thanks to those large three storey porches/terraces described earlier in the article. This effectively slices the depth of the building in half, providing this natural lighting and ventilation of both sides of each of the three office triangles., thus providing cross-ventilation and probably a nice draft due to the stack effect in the central opening atrium."
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