This is one of those ideas that seem so obvious once you hear them. A town in England, Huddersfield, is using power generated from the trash it collects to power its electric garbage collection trucks. Brilliant! How can this not be the future of trash collection. Next we need sun tanning salons to run on [...]
Archive for the ‘Cleantech’ Category
A Fun, Friendly Version of Ouroboros – Garbage Truck Feeds Itself
Posted in Cleantech, tagged electric vehicles, renewables, trash on 02, 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Cars as trolleys?
Posted in Cleantech on 01, 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
File this under the “Just kinda cool” category. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is working on piezoelectric roads that generate electricity as cars drive over them. Using crystals the experimental road generates 400 kilowatts of power per hour. Not a lot but… I like the outside the box/herd thinking. Combine this with the MIT City [...]
Andy Grove: PEV Retrofit of Cars Winning Strategy
Posted in Cleantech, Energy, Technology, tagged Andy Grove, Batteries, Electric cars, McKinsey, Oil on 12, 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Foreign dependence on oil is the triple threat: economic vulnerability, killing the planet, and inciting traditional, terrorist, and religious wars. We need a Manhattan Project slash Go to the Moon by the End of the Decade-like commitment to attack this problem. It’s gotten lip-service and the occasional ineffective government initiative for the past 40 years. [...]
Cleantech the new internet yet?
Posted in Cleantech, tagged alternative energy, Cleantech on 09, 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine recently said that cleantech is going to be bigger than the Internet. I’m always on the lookout for leading indicators, so that got my interest. Kleiner Perkins was the canary in the coal mine example my friend pointed to. They were recently profiled in Fortune magazine. They’ve moved completely into cleantech [...]
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