TameBear: Sustainable WorldAppropriate science and technology for sustainable life on planet Earth. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Cheap Solar Poised to Undercut Oil and Gas by Half: Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, says Anil Sethi, CEO of Swiss startup Flisom. The company is developing a solar film production process that they expect will drive the cost of solar panels (currently around $3-$4 per watt) down to less than $1 per watt within four years. Telegraphhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2007/02/20.html#a834 (Untitled)- February 15, 2007 U.S. Servers Suck More Power Than Mississippi: Power-hungry servers consumed 45 million kilowatt-hours of power in 2005 - twice the power usage of 2000. One obvious solution: solar powered servers. CNET News.comhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2007/02/15.html#a833 (Untitled)- February 14, 2007 Detroit's Plug-In Concepts. GM's Chevrolet Volt and Ford's HySeries Drive are plug-in electric cars that could give the hybrid Prius some stiff competition for fuel efficiency. Trouble is, Detroit's cars are so far just "concept" and won't be rolling off an assembly line for at least another four years. Big help, huh Wired Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2007/02/14.html#a831 (Untitled)- February 5, 2007 Wind Resource Off Eastern U.S. Coast Could Provide Energy for Nine States: Enough energy to supply the needs of nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina, plus the District of Columbia--with enough left over to support a 50 percent increase in future energy demand, according to a study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Stanford University. What's Next Networkhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/sustainableWorld/2007/02/05.html#a829 |