I found this interesting link Green Float concept: a carbon negative city on the ocean @ Gizmag (Nov 2010) detailing a floating green city concept that would exist near the equator. This is a very fascinating design.
Green Floating City from Gizmag
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 | Author: James O'Neill
Monday, November 01st, 2010 | Author: James O'Neill
I ran across this article titled ‘Khosla, Gates Are Betting On EcoMotors’ Engine Technology to Transform Autos Into Cleaner, Cheaper, and More Powerful Machines‘ detailing this new engine from Eco Motors International which sounds like it could really make a difference. There is nothing like smaller, lighter, faster, better, cheaper… is there.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | Author: James O'Neill
For a couple of years, Green Power, Inc (GPI) has had a 100 ton per day model plant in Pasco, Washington that turns municipal solid waste (MSW) and other like feedstock such as biomass into high grade fuel. This technology enables the replacement of limited, fossil-based oil with fuel that comes from garbage, which can be thought of as a form of free, sustainable energy, because as long as there are people on the planet, there will be waste. What’s more, usually communities pay to get rid of it, so it is a cash-generating feedstock that with GPI’s technology produces a cash-generating product, self-powered by the process as well. …
GPI‘s waste-to-fuel process validated by U.S. military (Examiner.com, 19 Feb 2010)
If this lives up to any of its claim, then all I can say is: Wow! US municipalities need to jump on this!
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Author: James O'Neill
Thorium, which was abandoned in favor of Uranium due to its production of nuclear grade Plutonium, is now working to be the Green Nuclear Fuel of Choice.
Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke
Long live our new Thorium overlords.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | Author: James O'Neill
In a bid for more sustainable alternative energy technology patents licensed exclusively from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) by Hyperion Power Generation brings us small scale nuclear reactors that also purify water.