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Solar Charger Tweets How Much Energy You're Gathering From The Sun

24 October 2011


© Changers.com Solar chargers are handy enough. They give you an extra power boost for your gadgets on sunny days. But hummm... what could make solar chargers even more interesting? How about if they tweet out how much energy you're gathering so that you can boast to your friends how awesome you are? ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

China Has More Shale Gas Than US, But Faces Bigger Technological, Environmental Hurdles

24 October 2011


EIA/Public Domain If you're opposed to fracking for natural gas in the US you well may have enough on your ming that thinking about fracking in other parts of the world would overflow your compassion threshold, but here's a glimpse of the situation in China, which has considerably more shale gas reserves than exist in the US (1.3 trillion cubic feet versus 862 cubic feet, according to the EIA). ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Emissions Must Peak by 2020 to Have 66% Chance of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

24 October 2011


Al Jazeera English/CC BY-ND 2.0 A new assessment of how quickly we have to act to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, the threshold scientists have identified as being critical for averting dangerous climate change, shows (again) we have to act now -- and should have acted a while ago.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Solar's "Nasty Secret" is Neither Nasty Nor Secret: Grist Sets the Record Straight

24 October 2011

via internet science tech "Solar panels do not work that well�.and few know it,"
Ray Burgess, president and CEO of Solar Power Technologies... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Earth's Temperature Is Indeed Warming - Independent Analysis Backs NASA, NOAA, Others

21 October 2011


Glenn Harper /CC BY 2.0 Not satisfied with existing research showing that Earth is in fact markedly warming post-Industrial Revolution, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project set out to find out for themselves what's really going on. They even got more than $100,000 from the climate change denying Koch brothers to help. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

iPod Turns 10 Years Old, And We Celebrate the Dematerialization of Music

24 October 2011


ewen and donabel/CC BY 1.0 Yesterday was the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the iPod, the digital music player that would play a key role in dematerializing music forever. Think for a moment -- even if you don't own an iPod, do you listen to digital music? Do you have an MP3 player or a smart phone that acts as your music library? Odds are, you no longer cart around a Discman or Walkman to listen to while traveling or going for a walk. And you may not even own or buy CDs anymore. And for that, we have the iPod to thank. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Americans Trapped By High Gas Prices

24 October 2011


Energy Trap/CC BY 2.0 Conventional TreeHugger wisdom suggests that if gas prices go up, then people will drive less and switch to more fuel efficient cars. That's what has happened before, but a new report suggests that it isn't happening now. According to Energy Trap, a study from the New America Foundation, people are indeed trapped, by older gas guzzling cars, long commutes from houses they can't sell or to multiple part-time jobs. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Sun- and Wind-Powered Lifeboat Becomes a Recording Studio

23 October 2011


Thomas Dolby/via When I mention Thomas Dolby, most of my friends draw a blank, until I mention his 1982 song, She Blinded Me With Science. Dolby has been busy since as the TED conference's musical director, as a silicon valley tech entrepreneur, and as a dad who recently moved his family to the Eastern coast of England. After 20 years, Dolby has now released a new album A Map of the Floating City. The album was produced in one of the most beautiful recording studios. It isn't a studio in Nashville or Los Angeles, but a studio on a solar and wind powered lifeboat moored in Dolby's ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Limited Export Capacity Behind Big Push For Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

21 October 2011


Elvert Barnes/CC BY-SA 2.0 One of the reasons why there's been such a big push by TransCanada and the tar sands industry more broadly for the approval of the proposed and embattled Keystone XL pipeline, stretching from Canada to Texas, goes beyond the immediate profits of the pipeline and onto a much bigger issue: A coming shortage of pipeline capacity in Canada. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

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