I’m always happy to receive updates on Ford from my colleague Daria Baxter, an account executive at Ogilvy Public Relations, who handles Ford’s PR. She writes:
Hi Craig, Hope you had a great week! I wanted to make sure you knew that earlier this week, Ford announced its plan to invest $5 Million to upgrade to LED lighting across its Asia Pacific facilities. Benefits derived from this switch include: (more…)
We live in a world in which more and more people need electricity to light their homes, and the demand always seems to be greater than the supply. Several billion people on the planet need lighting and electricity but do not have access.
Indeed, access to electricity is distributed unevenly in the world, meaning that it’s time to find new solutions. Among the proposals to illuminate the house with no grid access there is SALt, a lamp that works with water and salt. (more…)
Fair-minded people everywhere blanch when we see our media going out of its way to ridicule conservatives, e.g., waiting for Jeb Bush to say something that makes him appear dim-witted, while refusing to do the same to Bernie Sanders. Yet I challenge conservatives everywhere to take a peek at this article and explain how they continue to believe that there is a consistent liberal bias. (more…)
Those of us who concern ourselves with the challenges associated with integrating variable resources (solar and wind) into the grid-mix are paying close attention to developments in various battery chemistries, particularly those that invoke extremely common (and thus inexpensive) electrodes. After all, energy storage concepts that are doomed to remain expensive are also doomed to play no important role in generating the level of scale required to make a real difference here. (more…)
Driver inattention is one of the most common causes of car accidents at intersections. Speeding while trying to cross an intersection before the light turns red increases the risk of crashes, presenting a serious threat to road safety. Improving intersection safety is one of the goals that German car maker BMW is trying to achieve by releasing an app that offers a countdown timer for traffic lights, that can help drivers anticipate traffic light changes, making it easier for them to determine whether there is enough time for them to beat a red light by accelerating or they need to start slowing down and stop. (more…)
Though it’s hardly a new idea, I’d like to take a moment and point out how incredibly unlikely it is that we’re having this “conversation” right now. We’re all aware that we live on a “Goldilocks” planet, i.e., one that’s just the right distance from the sun such that the temperature ranges support liquid water; that its rotation allows its surface to cool off nicely at night; that it has lots of carbon on board (an atom that can form more molecules necessary to life than all other elements combined); that it has large planets in its solar system that protect it from comets; (more…)
A reader wants to raise many millions of dollars to develop the technology described in this presentation, claiming that it’s a breakthrough in generating energy from the sun without using PV or CSP. I respond:
Sorry, but this makes no sense. Will it generate a large force/pressure? Yes. Will it generate large amounts of energy? No. Energy is the integral of force over a distance, and this device will do very little of that. (more…)
Over the years here at 2GreenEnergy, I’ve pointed our readers to several explanations of climate change that I thought were particularly on point. But it wasn’t until yesterday that I came across this masterpiece: “13 Misconceptions About Climate Change,” which, as its title suggests, refutes each of a baker’s dozen arguments commonly propounded by climate deniers, in the form of a discussion between a man of science and his alter-ego. Not only is this clever beyond belief, it’s incredibly accessible to a non-scientific audience. (more…)
What will our energy future look like? What guidelines should be given to the production and distribution of energy tomorrow? These questions are the source of numerous heated debates in society and politics. The task of an energy company is to ensure energy supply and to bring new ideas to meet the different needs. (Note: unfortunately, energy companies, at least here in the US, are not tasked to bring new ideas. –ed) (more…)
