The sun’s energy powers just about everything. Sometimes it does so more directly, as in the conversion of radiant energy to electricity in photovoltaic panels, and others less directly, in the case of plant material that has morphed in petroleum and natural gas found in the earth’s crust. In addition, the sun causes the wind [...]
Posts Tagged ‘California’
Harnessing Solar Energy for Fuel
August 17th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Department of Energy, Energy, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy 
No Comments »The Goats Are at it Again
August 5th, 2010 Eric Wilson Last year we wrote about Google’s use of goats to “cut” the lawn at their expansive headquarters in Mountain View, California. Perhaps it’s a “California thing”, but the private sector is not the only one employing these beasts of burden to chomp down growth. NPR reports that the city of Los Angeles has been using [...]
Gills Onions Produces “Green” Onions
August 1st, 2010 Eric Wilson Last year my father sent me an article from the Los Angeles Times about a company that was using its waste to partially power the company. I did not follow up on it at the time, but he called the other day (almost exactly one year after the original article) and said, “There’s this company [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Carbon Dioxide, Los Angeles, Waste No Comments »Toyota and Tesla to Build Electric Rav4
July 20th, 2010 Eric Wilson With its recent Initial Public Offering (IPO), Tesla Motors has made a strong entry into the realm of publicly traded auto manufacturers. To ensure their long term viability, they recently announced a partnership with Toyota Motors to produce an electric version of the Japanese car maker’s Rav4. In fact, CNN reports that Toyota’s agreement with [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Japan, Transportation Tags: California, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Tesla No Comments »10,000 Chevy Volts Planned for 2011
July 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson The Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors “will build 10,000 Chevrolet Volts in 2011 and another 30,000 in 2012.” Details had been few and far between regarding GM’s foray into electrically powered cars. According to the story, “The Volt will go on sale later this year in California, Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, and around [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: California, Cars, Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicles, Honda Clarity, New York City, Tesla No Comments »July Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
July 1st, 2010 Eric Wilson The Biennial of the Americas, taking place in Denver, Colorado, is “an international event celebrating the culture, ideas and people of the Western Hemisphere, hosted by the City of Denver. Throughout the month of July, Denver will welcome national and international visitors for a cross-cultural experience bridging and unifying the artistic, intellectual and political progress [...]
Tesla Motors Going Public
June 28th, 2010 Justin Manger The Initial Public Offering (IPO) for electric car start-up Tesla Motors is scheduled for tomorrow June 29th. The company will put 13.3 million shares of stock on sale to the public in order to raise some much needed cash. Tesla shares are expected to open between a range of $14 to $16, at which price the [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Battery, California, Electric Vehicles, Tesla No Comments »Five Friday Facts
June 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following five Friday facts come via an Economix blog post on NY Times. Carbon emissions from San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, California were the lowest among American metropolitan areas, but “are still more than four times the emissions in the brownest Chinese city (Daqing) and 10 times as high as the household [...]
Posted in China, Conservation, Eric Wilson Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Energy Conservation, New York City No Comments »
